Copy Cat Group Partners With Group-IB To Deliver Intelligence-Led Cybersecurity Across East Africa

Copy Cat Group, East Africa’s largest systems integrator with over four decades of regional technology experience, today announced a strategic partnership with Group-IB,  a leading creator of cybersecurity technologies to investigate, prevent, and fight digital crime. The partnership enables Copy Cat to deliver a significantly expanded cybersecurity portfolio to enterprise clients across the region. This collaboration integrates threat intelligence-led advisory, predictive security analytics and services, and cognitive skill-building initiatives to stay ahead of evolving adversaries at a time when organised cybercrime targeting East Africa is accelerating at a documented and measurable pace.

The announcement builds on Copy Cat’s cybersecurity practice and its broader managed services infrastructure, which today spans data centre management, network operations, cloud maintenance, and over 3,000 IT assets under active management across the region. By adding Group-IB’s Unified Risk Platform and partner programme to that foundation, Copy Cat moves beyond infrastructure-level security into intelligence-led threat detection and active incident response. These are capabilities that East African enterprises increasingly need as organised cybercrime targeting the region’s financial institutions, government agencies, and telecommunications operators continues to escalate.

The scale of that threat is not abstract. Cybercrime now accounts for more than 30 percent of all reported crime in parts of Africa, with estimated losses exceeding $3 billion between 2019 and 2025, according to INTERPOL’s Africa Cybercrime Threat Assessment. Kenya has been among the most targeted markets, with documented losses of $8.6 million from coordinated credit card fraud schemes alone. Group-IB played a direct role in disrupting those networks, providing 19 investigation support requests as part of Operation Serengeti, a joint enforcement action conducted in partnership with INTERPOL and AFRIPOL that resulted in over 1,000 arrests and the dismantling of more than 134,000 criminal infrastructure elements across the continent in 2024. For clients across East Africa, this track record carries real weight.

Group-IB’s credentials extend well beyond Africa. The company has completed more than 1,400 successful high-tech crime investigations globally, operates Digital Crime Resistance Centres across Europe, Asia-Pacific, Central Asia, and the Middle East,  and maintains official partnerships with INTERPOL, Europol, and AFRIPOL, enabling a global yet locally informed approach to combating cybercrime. Through its adversary-centric threat intelligence, Group-IB helps organisations understand how cybercriminals operate and anticipate attacks before they escalate.

Its Unified Risk Platform integrates predictive threat intelligence, attack surface management, digital risk protection, managed XDR, business email protection, and fraud prevention into a single cohesive architecture. This reduces tool fragmentation, strengthens security operations centre maturity, and gives enterprise clients a clearer and more actionable picture of the threats they face. The platform is recognised by Gartner, Forrester, IDC, KuppingerCole, and Frost & Sullivan across multiple cybersecurity categories.

The partnership represents a deliberate expansion of Copy Cat’s security practice into higher-value, intelligence-led services. As enterprise clients across the region face increasingly sophisticated threats, demand for capabilities that go beyond infrastructure protection and into active threat detection, adversary intelligence, and fraud prevention has grown significantly. Group-IB’s Unified Risk Platform and managed services portfolio position Copy Cat to meet that demand with a partner whose operational depth in the region is already established.

Enterprise clients in Copy Cat Group’s core verticals stand to benefit most immediately. Banking and financial services institutions gain access to Group-IB’s fraud protection and digital risk protection capabilities, which are designed to detect and disrupt account takeover, payment fraud, brand impersonation, and executive targeting schemes. These are threat categories that have caused measurable financial damage across the East African banking sector. Telecommunications operators gain access to managed XDR and threat hunting services that address the increasingly sophisticated attacks being directed at critical network infrastructure. Government and public sector clients gain access to compromise assessments, incident response retainers, and high-tech crime investigation expertise backed by Group-IB’s global investigations team and its long-standing relationship with regional law enforcement bodies.

“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,” said Nadeem Noordin, Director – IT Business, Copy Cat Group.

Ahmed Tharwat, Regional Sales Director Egypt, NEA & Levant at Group-IB, said: “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.”

The partnership was formally introduced to the East African enterprise market at the Africa CISO Summit on the 11^th – 12^th March at Pullman Hotel, Upperhill, where Copy Cat Group presented the joint security proposition to the region’s most senior cybersecurity decision-makers.