Cybersecurity Policy & Governance
National strategies, legal and institutional frameworks, whole-of-government coordination, and regional harmonization.
SecurAfrik is an independent African cyber policy and research organization focused on strengthening cybersecurity governance, policy implementation, digital sovereignty, and cyber resilience across Africa.
Our work sits at the intersection of cybersecurity, public policy, digital governance, institutional resilience, and digital sovereignty. We focus particularly on the gap between policy adoption and effective implementation.
Explore Our ResearchSecurAfrik examines not only whether cybersecurity policies exist, but whether they work in practice. Our agenda focuses on the policy, institutional, financial and strategic conditions required to translate cybersecurity ambitions into sustainable resilience across Africa.
National strategies, legal and institutional frameworks, whole-of-government coordination, and regional harmonization.
Institutional capacity, financing, resources, implementation roadmaps, maturity, monitoring, evaluation, and operational barriers.
Essential-service protection, resilience governance, public-private coordination, preparedness, continuity, and recovery.
Data, AI, cloud, digital infrastructure, technological dependencies, and strategic autonomy.
Concise, decision-oriented analysis accompanied by practical policy recommendations.
Structured analysis of national strategies, institutions, implementation mechanisms, and emerging priorities.
A periodic assessment of major trends shaping cybersecurity policy, governance, and implementation across Africa.
SecurAfrik is exploring the methodological foundations for a future index examining how cybersecurity policy commitments are operationalized through institutions, resources, capabilities, implementation mechanisms, and measurable outcomes.
SecurAfrik is building a coherent portfolio of publications focused on African cybersecurity policy.
Concise analysis accompanied by actionable policy recommendations.
Periodic analysis of trends shaping cybersecurity policy and governance across Africa.
Country-level analysis of strategies, institutions, and implementation mechanisms.
Curated articles, reports and analysis, accompanied by SecurAfrik’s perspective on why they matter for Africa.
Dr. Mohamed Toure is a cybersecurity policy and governance expert with extensive experience in strategic advisory, research, technology leadership, and capacity building across Africa and internationally. He holds a Ph.D. in Information Technology–Cybersecurity and an MBA in International Business. His doctoral dissertation, titled The Malabo Convention to Improve Cybersecurity in Africa, was a qualitative study examining cybersecurity governance in Africa, the continent’s digital sovereignty, and the institutional and operational challenges African nations face in implementing adopted cybersecurity policies and frameworks.
Research • Policy Dialogues • Expert Consultations • Institutional Studies • Conferences