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Kenya: Microsoft Partners With Kenya to Launch Regional Cybersecurity Initiative
- Microsoft partnered with Kenya's NC4 in 2025 to launch a regional cybersecurity initiative focused on strengthening cyber resilience.
- This initiative responds to rising digital threats and gaps in cybersecurity infrastructure amid rapid digital transformation in Kenya and Africa.
- The collaboration will kick off with a multi-stakeholder roundtable to set cybersecurity priorities, followed by a scenario-based exercise designed to evaluate the country's incident response capabilities and inform future policy development.
- Microsoft called the launch part of the Advancing Regional Cybersecurity Initiative to provide a scalable model for Global South cooperation.
- This partnership implies increased cybersecurity capacity in Kenya, potentially encouraging similar engagements across other developing nations.
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Kenya: Microsoft Partners With Kenya to Launch Regional Cybersecurity Initiative
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