Author : Tomslin Samme-Nlar Presented at EOCON 2022 Video of the presentation : https://youtu.be/UC-8HteCxPk

1. RESEARCH DIRECTOR, GEFONA DIGITAL FOUNDATION
CAMEROON

2. 1.The Research Question
2.Our Approach
3.What We Learned
4.Q & A
PLAN

3. i. Which technologies are organizations adopting or plan to adopt in their digital
transformation journey?
ii. Are organizations in the region adopting new technology trends in application
development?
iii. What does application security readiness look like in the region?
The Research Question

4. Our Approach
The survey was conducted using various interview techniques, targeting senior
technical staff members and decision-makers
There were 150 respondents from 5 countries (Nigeria, Ghana, Cameroon,
Senegal, Ivory Coast)
Almost every industry sector was interviewed

5. What We Learned
DIGITAL TRANSFORMATION
Over 60% of organizations in the region think cloud
computing technologies will be strategic in the next 2-5
years.
67% of organizations have or plan to have a
digital transformation project in the region.

6. What We Learned
DIGITAL TRANSFORMATION
Digital transformation is changing how organizations
develop applications.

7. What We Learned
INFRASTRUCTURE AND APPLICATIONS
Majority of organizations predominantly use Virtual
Machines (VMs) to deploy applications today.

8. What We Learned
INFRASTRUCTURE AND APPLICATIONS
Organizations said they choose best in class SaaS
software/applications.
CONFIDENTIAL

9. What We Learned
INFRASTRUCTURE AND APPLICATIONS
Organizations decide which cloud service is best on a case by case basis, with the majority saying up
to 24% of their applications will be in the cloud by end of 2022.

10. What We Learned
APPLICATION SECURITY
Most organizations believe security is the most important factor when deploying application
services.

11. What We Learned
APPLICATION SECURITY
i. Phishing and web application attacks are the top attack vectors in the region.
ii. We also noted that ransomware makes 26% of all attacks

12. What We Learned
APPLICATION SECURITY
Except for Nigeria where organizations were generally confident in their ability to withstand application-
level security threats in both private and public cloud, for the rest of the countries, organizations are only
confident in their ability to withstand application-level security threats on private cloud.

13. What We Learned
APPLICATION SECURITY
Many organizations in the region said they don’t think they have a cybersecurity skill shortage. However, in another
question, they admit to have security skill gaps in specific areas like Cloud, Application security
Do you believe you have a security skills gap in
your organization?
Which area do you have a security gap/deficit in skills
in your organization?

14. M E R C I !
T H A N K Y O U !
QUESTIONS ?