Group-IB, a leading creator of cybersecurity technologies to investigate, prevent, and fight digital crime, today announced a strategic partnership with Copy Cat Group, East Africa’s largest systems integrator. The collaboration aims to strengthen cybersecurity resilience for enterprises across Kenya, Uganda, Rwanda, and Ethiopia by combining Group-IB’s predictive threat intelligence and adversary-centric expertise with Copy Cat Group’s deep regional market presence.
As cyber threats grow in scale and sophistication, organizations across Africa are increasingly targeted by financially motivated cybercriminal networks and organized threat actors. Through this partnership, Group-IB and Copy Cat Group will bring intelligence-led cybersecurity capabilities to enterprises in the region, helping organizations better anticipate, detect, and respond to evolving cyber threats.
The collaboration will introduce Group-IB’s Unified Risk Platform to the East African market through Copy Cat Group’s enterprise ecosystem. The platform integrates predictive threat intelligence, digital risk protection, attack surface management, managed extended detection and response (XDR), business email protection, and fraud prevention into a unified architecture that enables organizations to proactively identify threats and prevent attacks before they escalate.
Group-IB’s approach to cybersecurity is rooted in adversary-centric threat intelligence, enabling organizations to understand how cybercriminal groups operate, track emerging attack campaigns, and strengthen their defenses against real-world threat actors. By combining these capabilities with Copy Cat Group’s regional expertise, the partnership will help organizations across East Africa move from reactive security practices toward proactive cyber resilience.
“This partnership reflects Group-IB’s commitment to strengthening cybersecurity resilience across Africa. By combining our adversary-centric threat intelligence and predictive capabilities with Copy Cat’s Group local expertise, we aim to help organizations in Kenya and across the region better anticipate and prevent cyber threats. This collaboration also reflects our ‘glocal’ approach — bringing global cybersecurity expertise while supporting the development of local skills and capabilities to fight cybercrime.”
Regional Sales Director Egypt, NEA & Levant at Group-IB
“AI is fundamentally reshaping the cybersecurity landscape, amplifying both the scale and sophistication of the risks organizations face. In an AI-first world, traditional security strategies are no longer sufficient. Our clients in East Africa are confronting adversaries who are organised, well-resourced, and increasingly leveraging advanced technologies themselves. Our partnership with Group-IB equips us with the intelligence and incident response capabilities needed to address these evolving threats with the seriousness they demand. We have always operated on the principle of advising, executing, and managing on behalf of our clients, and this collaboration allows us to extend that commitment into modern security operations with a partner whose track record across the globe is well established.”
Director – IT Business at Copy Cat Group
The partnership comes at a time when cybercrime across Africa continues to accelerate. According to INTERPOL’s Africa Cyberthreat Assessment, cybercrime accounts for a growing proportion of reported criminal activity across several African markets, with financial losses reaching billions of dollars annually. By combining Group-IB’s global cybercrime investigation expertise and predictive threat intelligence with Copy Cat Group’s regional technology capabilities, the partnership will enable organizations to better protect critical infrastructure, financial systems, and digital services.
Group-IB has conducted more than 1,400 high-tech crime investigations worldwide and operates Digital Crime Resistance Centers across Europe, the Americas, the Middle East and Africa, Central Asia, and Asia-Pacific. Through close collaboration with international law enforcement organizations such as INTERPOL, Europol, and AFRIPOL, Group-IB contributes to global efforts to disrupt cybercriminal infrastructure and dismantle organized digital crime networks.
The partnership was formally introduced during the Africa CISO Summit, held on 11–12 March at the Pullman Hotel, Upperhill, Nairobi, where Group-IB and Copy Cat Group presented their joint cybersecurity capabilities to senior cybersecurity leaders from across the region.
