26ᵗʰ February 2026 | Gallagher Convention Centre | Johannesburg | South Africa
Mark your calendar for 26ᵗʰ February 2026 in Johannesburg, South Africa at Gallagher Convention Centre. CYSEC AFRICA the continent’s flagship cybersecurity gathering returns with a bold new chapter under the theme: Turning Cyber Threats into Africa’s Cyber Strength.
The event unites industry leaders, technology innovators, and government experts to transform the continent’s cyber landscape into a foundation of resilience and strategic growth.
With South Africa facing a surge in phishing, ransomware, and digital fraud, the government has elevated cybersecurity to a national security priority, recognizing that cyber defence is now essential to sovereignty. Meanwhile, rapid digital expansion across Africa from fintech to infrastructure is widening both opportunity and risk, with attacks costing economies up to 10% of GDP in some regions.
CYSEC AFRICA 2026 is where vision meets vigilance a platform to strengthen defences, drive innovation, and shape a secure digital future for Africa.
Posing as a gateway to Africa’s digital economy, South Africa is positioning itself as a dynamic player backed by a strong cybersecurity market, robust digital policies, and a forward-looking investment landscape, thereby making it the quintessential host for CYSEC AFRICA. With the advent of the 5th Industrial Revolution, the country is also stepping up its game with e-government initiatives, smart cities, industry cloud platforms, and more. This proactive approach underscores South Africa’s commitment to embracing cutting-edge technologies while ensuring cybersecurity remains a top priority.
As we delve into discussions, workshops, and collaborations at the summit, we’re not just exploring cybersecurity trends; we’re shaping the digital security framework for Africa’s digital age.
The South Africa Cybersecurity Market size is estimated at USD 0.26 billion in 2024, and is expected to reach USD 0.49 billion by 2029.
Despite South Africa’s various political, economic, and social challenges, it has leapfrogged into the digital age and cyberspace has been woven into the fabric of everyday life. With a digital penetration rate of 72 percent, South Africa has been referred to as the world’s most internet-addicted country.
Data breaches cost the South African economy R2.2-billion every year, but the cybersecurity market, growing at a CAGR of 12.97%, is poised to turn this
around drastically!
South Africa is Africa’s dominant cloud market, with over 60% of the continent’s data centres, leading to an Increased emphasis on better cloud security.
Cloudflare, Inc. (NYSE: NET) is the leading connectivity cloud company on a mission to help build a better Internet. It empowers organizations to make their employees, applications and networks faster and more secure everywhere, while reducing complexity and cost. Cloudflare’s connectivity cloud delivers the most full-featured, unified platform of cloud-native products and developer tools, so any organization can gain the control they need to work, develop, and accelerate their business.
Powered by one of the world’s largest and most interconnected networks, Cloudflare blocks billions of threats online for its customers every day. It is trusted by millions of organizations – from the largest brands to entrepreneurs and small businesses to nonprofits, humanitarian groups, and governments across the globe.
TXOne Networks provides cybersecurity solutions for ICS and OT environments using the OT zero trust methodology.
TXOne Networks offers cybersecurity solutions that ensure the reliability and safety of industrial control systems and operational technology environments through the OT zero trust methodology. TXOne Networks works together with both leading manufacturers and critical infrastructure operators to develop practical, operations-friendly approaches to cyber defense. TXOne Networks offers both network-based and endpoint-based products to secure the OT network and mission-critical devices in a real-time, defense-in-depth manner.
Recorded Future is the world’s largest threat intelligence company. Recorded Future’s Intelligence Cloud provides end-to-end intelligence across adversaries, infrastructure, and targets. Indexing the internet across the open web, dark web, and technical sources, Recorded Future provides real-time visibility into an expanding attack surface and threat landscape, empowering clients to act with speed and confidence to reduce risk and securely drive business forward. Headquartered in Boston with offices and employees around the world, Recorded Future works with over 1,900 businesses and government organizations across more than 75 countries to provide real-time, unbiased and actionable intelligence.
Fueled by a belief that identity professionals deserve better, we found a way to break down the silos of identity security—eliminating the gaps and blind spots created by a patchwork network of point solutions. The Silverfort Identity Security Platform is the only solution that protects all identities in the cloud, on-prem, human or machine, and everything in between. Our patented technology—Runtime Access Protection™ (RAP)—natively integrates with your entire IAM infrastructure, giving businesses visibility into their entire network of identities and extending protection to resources that previously could not be protected—including NHIs, legacy systems, and command line tools. It’s easy to deploy, and won’t mess with daily business operations, resulting in better security outcomes with less work. Discover every identity across every environment, analyze exposures to reduce the attack surface, and enforce security controls inline to stop lateral movement, ransomware propagation and other identity threats. This is Identity Security done right.
Varonis is the leader in data security, fighting a different battle than conventional cybersecurity companies. Our cloud-native Data Security Platform continuously discovers and classifies critical data, removes exposures, and detects advanced threats with AI-powered automation.
Established in 2003, Group-IB is a leading creator of cybersecurity technologies to investigate, prevent, and fight digital crime globally. Headquartered in Singapore, and with Digital Crime Resistance Centers in the Americas, Europe, Middle East and Africa, Central Asia, and the Asia-Pacific, Group-IB analyses and neutralizes regional and country-specific cyber threats via its Unified Risk Platform, offering unparalleled defense through its industry-leading Threat Intelligence, Fraud Protection, Digital Risk Protection, Managed Extended Detection and Response (XDR), Business Email Protection, and External Attack Surface Management solutions, catering to government, retail, healthcare, gaming, financial sectors, and beyond.
Group-IB collaborates with international law enforcement agencies like INTERPOL, Europol, and AFRIPOL to fortify cybersecurity worldwide, and has been awarded by advisory agencies including Aite-Novarica, Gartner, Forrester, Frost & Sullivan, and KuppingerCole.
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