I had a (bot) farm in Africa

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Africa is huge and complex place, with over 50 countries and more than 2,000 spoken languages - from Arabic and Swahili to Hausa and Zulu. It's also evolving, with technology impacting countries and their people in dramatic ways. All of this has significant implications for cybercrime and cybersecurity. But is cybersecurity in Africa as unique as the continent itself, or does globalised technology imply globalised vulnerabilities and threats? This talk presents the findings from a study of over 300 security incidents on the continent from the last five years, and uses a novel framework to surface a wholistic and comprehensive view of the scope and shape of cybersecurity on the African continent.