# Episode 170: A Conversation on AI, Cyber Risk & Digital Trust in Kenya & East Africa with Smartcomply’s Founder & CEO Gbemisola Osunrinde Page: https://stenobird.com/podcast/pure-digital-passion-with-moses-kemibaro-5830846/episode-170-a-conversation-on-ai-cyber-risk-digital-trust-in-kenya-east-africa-with-smartcomply-s-founder-ceo-gbemisola-osunrinde Text version: https://stenobird.com/podcast/pure-digital-passion-with-moses-kemibaro-5830846/episode-170-a-conversation-on-ai-cyber-risk-digital-trust-in-kenya-east-africa-with-smartcomply-s-founder-ceo-gbemisola-osunrinde.md Podcast: [Pure Digital Passion with Moses Kemibaro](https://stenobird.com/podcast/pure-digital-passion-with-moses-kemibaro-5830846) Published: 2026-02-28T11:53:58+00:00 Episode link: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/moseskemibaro/episodes/Episode-170-A-Conversation-on-AI--Cyber-Risk--Digital-Trust-in-Kenya--East-Africa-with-Smartcomplys-Founder--CEO-Gbemisola-Osunrinde-e3fnv1f Audio file: https://anchor.fm/s/6c93c08/podcast/play/116177391/https%3A%2F%2Fd3ctxlq1ktw2nl.cloudfront.net%2Fstaging%2F2026-1-28%2F418999736-44100-2-80bc2015051e9.m4a Processing state: not_requested JSON: https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/pure-digital-passion-with-moses-kemibaro-5830846/episodes/episode-170-a-conversation-on-ai-cyber-risk-digital-trust-in-kenya-east-africa-with-smartcomply-s-founder-ceo-gbemisola-osunrinde Duration seconds: 2640 ## Resource Recorded live at Radisson Blu Nairobi – Hours before The Secure Horizon executive breakfast and the launch of Smartcomply's "AI & the Cyber Frontier" report with TechCabal on the 26th February 2026. Kenya recorded 4.5 billion cyber threat events (April-June 2025) and lost KSh 29.9 billion to cybercrime last year. As digital platforms become economic infrastructure (mobile money = 53% GDP ), cyber risk is now a board-level crisis . I sat down with Gbemisola Osunrinde , CEO of Smartcomply – the African-built digital trust platform making Nairobi its East Africa hub. What we unpacked: Her origin story : From hardware engineering to building Africa's cybersecurity stack after living through manual compliance hell Smartcomply's ecosystem : SecureSE (GRC), SmartGuard (endpoint), Adhere (anti-fraud/AML), Oculus (dark web intel), Academy (talent pipeline) Why African-built matters : Global tools ignore mobile money scale, SIM-swap patterns, regulatory patchwork AI arms race : Attackers shifted from "breaking in" to "logging in" – deepfake CEOs, voice phishing CFOs, perfect invoice fraud The execution gap : 74% rank cyber #1 priority, only 29% run tabletop exercises Kenya's paradox : Tier 1 cybersecurity ranking + 68% regional attack surface = massive exposure Boardroom reality : "Cybersecurity isn't IT – it's a culture problem. Don't checkbox it." Talent fix : Africa's 82% cyber/AI skills gap needs academies + pipelines, not just tools 90-day action plan for CEOs, SMEs, young professionals Key quote: "Resilient institutions move beyond reactive risk to AI-enabled resilience and partnership-driven strategies." – Gbemisola Osunrinde Perfect for: Fintech founders, bank C-suites, telco execs, regulators, SME owners, cyber-curio… ## Actions - request_transcript: `POST https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/pure-digital-passion-with-moses-kemibaro-5830846/episodes/episode-170-a-conversation-on-ai-cyber-risk-digital-trust-in-kenya-east-africa-with-smartcomply-s-founder-ceo-gbemisola-osunrinde/transcription-requests` — Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode. - read_markdown: `GET https://stenobird.com/podcast/pure-digital-passion-with-moses-kemibaro-5830846/episode-170-a-conversation-on-ai-cyber-risk-digital-trust-in-kenya-east-africa-with-smartcomply-s-founder-ceo-gbemisola-osunrinde.md` — Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource. A page view does not enqueue transcription. Agents should invoke `request_transcript` explicitly when they need this episode processed. ## Transcript Full transcripts are not published on public pages unless there is a clear rights basis.