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Safaricom Partners Cloudflare and Copycat to Provide Businesses in Kenya Affordable Cybersecurity

October 17, 2024

Safaricom Partners Cloudflare and Copycat to Provide Businesses in Kenya Affordable Cybersecurity

Safaricom partners Cloudflare and Copycat to to protect businesses in Kenya from data breaches and modern-day cyber threats. This partnership with Cloudflare, a global web infrastructure and cybersecurity provider, and Copycatgroup, a business technology provider in Africa, will help provide affordable cybersercurity.

The partnership aims to provide affordable and reliable digital security solutions for micro, small, and medium-sized enterprises (MSMEs) in Kenya.

“Businesses can subscribe to the cloud-based cybersecurity plans of their choice online and access full-stack application and network security solutions from KES 5,000 per site per month, operational in hours,” Safaricom says.

The firm also highlighted Cloudflare’s processing capacity of over 248TB, stating it is “30 times more than any other provider in the market.”

Announcing its partnership with Cloudflare as the first managed services provider in Africa, Safaricom’s Chief Enterprise Business Officer, Cynthia Kropac, mentioned they are redefining how MSMEs across Kenya protect themselves in the evolving digital landscape with enterprise-grade [solutions].

She reiterated that affordability and accessibility to full-stack cybersecurity tools are central to the partnership, offering everything from basic protection to advanced solutions.

“By leveraging Cloudflare’s solutions, such as zero-trust services and email security hosted locally in data centres within Kenya, we are investing in a future-proof infrastructure that provides every customer with robust and advanced protection from cyber threats.”

What this partnership will bring

Moreover, the partnership comes ahead of Safaricom’s Cybersecurity Summit, where Kropac mentioned that much more will be announced at the upcoming event.

While Graham Turnbull, Managing Executive at Cloudflare, said the partnership brings comprehensive and effective digital security solutions closer to business owners. Vishal Patel, Managing Director at Copycat, added that businesses of all sizes benefit from enterprise-grade protection, enabling them to scale confidently with secure, fast, and reliable digital infrastructure.

In another effort targeted at business owners, Safaricom partnered with Pezesha, a Kenyan fintech, in June 2024, to offer a new credit option for small business owners, allowing them to borrow money directly through their M-PESA business accounts. This offering is an addition to Safaricom’s current loan products like M-Shwari and Fuliza.

However, these efforts could be Safaricom’s efforts towards onboarding more businesses, having earned KSh 139.9 billion ($1.07 billion) before interest and tax, exceeding market expectations and the group’s guidance range.

However, it identified customer segmentation, public sector digitization, and investments in new technologies as key performance drivers for this achievement.

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