Commvault’s Global SHIFT Roadshow Makes East African Debut. 40-city global cyber resilience initiative arrives in Kenya to address region’s digital transformation challenges.
Commvault, a global leader in cyber resilience and data protection, today announced that its acclaimed SHIFT Roadshow will make its East African debut in Nairobi on 12 September 2025. The event will bring together cybersecurity professionals, global thought leaders, and regional decision-makers at JW Marriott to address the critical cyber resilience challenges facing Kenya’s rapidly digitalising economy.
Global Pedigree Meets Local Relevance
SHIFT takes place across 40+ cities worldwide, spanning countries including the USA, Romania, UAE, Turkey, and Egypt, establishing itself as the premier global roadshow for cyber resilience education. Nairobi’s selection marks a significant milestone as Commvault recognises East Africa’s strategic importance in the continent’s digital transformation journey.
Kenya is at the forefront of Africa’s digital revolution, with its mobile money innovations to cloud adoption across both public and private sectors. However, with this digital acceleration comes increased exposure to sophisticated cyber threats. SHIFT Nairobi is set to equip regional IT leaders with proven, global best practices tailored for the East African market.
While Kenya’s digital transformation is accelerating at an unprecedented pace, the nation is also experiencing a surge in exposure to ransomware attacks, AI-enhanced threats, and dynamic regulatory requirements. SHIFT Nairobi will directly address these challenges through comprehensive sessions, making a financial case for being cyber-resilient, and showcasing successful customer examples and boardroom conversations on how to justify investment.
Strategic Partnerships Made For Local Impact
The event features Commvault’s proven format of keynote presentations and technical deep dives, enhanced by strategic partnerships with regional technology leaders such as Computech, TFC, and Mitsumi. This collaboration ensures content is specifically contextualised for the East African market dynamics and regulatory environments.
SHIFT Nairobi will feature a distinguished lineup of global and regional experts, delivering insights on emerging threat landscapes specific to East Africa, with best practices from global SHIFT events adapted for context. It will amplify cyber resilience as Commvault’s leadership shines through.
Enterprises urged to build resilient systems to guard against cyber threats
Kenya enterprises are being urged to invest in early warning systems to guard their systems against wanton cyber attacks which have been on the rise.
According to cyber security firm Commvault, many firms who have migrated their services to cloud infrastructure continue to face challenges such as recovery of their data upon attacks a move which has lead companies incur losses.
“We are here to protect our customers and to tell them be aware and be prepared because if you are not prepared for that day, the financial losses, reputation losses and impact is massive and coming online takes amount of time if you are not well prepared,” said Fady Richmany, Commvault Regional Vice President Emerging Markets in Europe, Middle East and Africa.
According to estimates by the Communications Authority (CA) Kenyan firms are estimated to have lost Ksh 11 billion in 2023 alone.
As companies move most of their services online, Richmany said attacks will continue a factor which will force companies to invest in ensuring they operate resilient systems which rely in artificial intelligence for early warnings and detection of looming threats.
“We have seen a lot of customers in the region who take 2-3 months to come back online which is a lot. Imagine you are an airline and you get attacked and it takes you two months to come back online and to fly passengers. Who is going to fly with you?” he added.
Through the shift campaign the firm is running, Commvault is targeting to make its customers in Kenya more resilient through its unified, cloud-native resilience and Agentic Artificial Intelligence (AI) which helps in speedy recovery of data.
“The gap we see across the board is really lack of awareness especially in the case of a customers already boarded to the cloud without even knowing. The lack of awareness goes into multiple directions but the most important direction is in a lot of cases we have the shadow ID. Assumption is that if I’m in on the cloud the hyperscale will protect the data,” noted Richmany.
Latest data by CA indicates that the number of cyber threats detected in the third quarter of the year to March 2025, rose by 201.7pc to 2.5 billion from 840.9 million threats reported last quarter.
A total of 13.2 million advisories were issued in response to the cyber threats detected, representing a 14.2pc increase compared to 11.6 million advisories issued last quarter.