About this episode

The episode features a discussion on AI, cyber risk, and digital trust in Kenya and East Africa with Gbemisola Osunrinde, CEO of Smartcomply.

Recorded live at Radisson Blu Nairobi – Hours before The Secure Horizon executive breakfast and the launch of Smartcomply's "AI & the Cyber Frontier" report with TechCabal on the 26th February 2026. Kenya recorded 4.5 billion cyber threat events (April-June 2025) and lost KSh 29.9 billion to cybercrime last year. As digital platforms become economic infrastructure (mobile money = 53% GDP ), cyber risk is now a board-level crisis . I sat down with Gbemisola Osunrinde , CEO of Smartcomply – the African-built digital trust platform making Nairobi its East Africa hub. What we unpacked: Her origin story : From hardware engineering to building Africa's cybersecurity stack after living through manual compliance hell Smartcomply's ecosystem : SecureSE (GRC), SmartGuard (endpoint), Adhere (anti-fraud/AML), Oculus (dark web intel), Academy (talent pipeline) Why African-built matters : Global tools ignore mobile money scale, SIM-swap patterns, regulatory patchwork AI arms race : Attackers shifted from "breaking in" to "logging in" – deepfake CEOs, voice phishing CFOs, perfect invoice fraud The execution gap : 74% rank cyber #1 priority, only 29% run…

People in this episode

Host: Moses Kemibaro

Guest: Gbemisola Osunrinde

Topics covered

• AI
• Cyber Risk
• Digital Trust
• Cybersecurity
• East Africa
• Compliance
• Economic Infrastructure

Keywords

• cybersecurity
• AI
• digital trust
• cyber risk
• East Africa
• compliance
• mobile money
• cybercrime
• Smartcomply

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Smartcomply, TechCabal

Places: Kenya, Nairobi

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