Educating Communities
Cybersecurity affects everyone who uses technology.
We make security understandable and relevant to everyday digital life, from scams and privacy to passwords, social engineering and emerging threats.
Explore Community →Powering Africa's cybersecurity capability.
Educating communities. Developing talent. Securing organizations.
We're building the knowledge, talent and security expertise needed for Africa's digital future.
Africa is the mission and the point of view, not a limit on who we serve.
Standards-ledISO/IEC 27001 · PCI DSS · privacy frameworks
Assess, build, operate, educateFour ways we work with organizations
Verified outcomes onlyNo metric published without validation
Built from AfricaDelivering locally and across markets
Technology partners we deploy, train on and certify against
How we build capability
Three parts of cybersecurity. One connected ecosystem.
Cybersecurity doesn't begin and end inside a security team. It depends on the people using technology, the professionals defending it and the organizations responsible for protecting it.
Hacktales works across all three.
Developing Talent
Cybersecurity careers require more than certificates.
We combine learning, practical challenges, real-world exposure and career support to help people develop, and demonstrate, the ability to do the work.
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Securing Organizations
We help organizations understand risk, strengthen their defences and operate security more effectively.
From advisory and engineering to managed security and workforce education.
Explore Organizations →One ecosystem
What we learn in one part strengthens the others.
The security challenges we see in organizations shape what we teach. What we teach develops people who can solve those challenges. And what we learn along the way helps us educate the wider community.
Each part makes the others stronger.
OrganizationsReal problems
LearningBetter learning
TalentStronger talent
OutcomeStronger security
and stronger security surfaces the next real problem
For organizations
Security expertise for the problems that matter.
Whether you're building a security programme, addressing compliance requirements, deploying security controls or extending your internal team, Hacktales helps turn security requirements into working outcomes.
Assess
Security Advisory & Compliance
Understand risk, requirements and gaps.
Build
Security Engineering & Integration
Design and implement the right security controls.
Operate
Managed Security Services
Extend your team and operate security continuously.
Educate
Workforce Security
Build stronger security behaviour across your workforce.
For cybersecurity professionals
Learn it. Practise it. Prove it.
Cybersecurity knowledge is only the beginning. Our learning experiences help you build the skills, judgement and evidence to take the next step.
Cybersecurity Foundation Program
Lay the foundation. Put it to work.
Build your cybersecurity foundation, then spend 6 months turning what you've learned into real-world experience.
- 6-month internship
- Enterprise tools
- Global vendor certifications
- Industry mentors
- Recruitment support
CyberLadder
Learn cybersecurity by thinking through it.
Tackle short, real-world scenarios that test how you recognize risk, make decisions and apply what you know.
- 10 daily challenges
- Instant explanations
- XP
- Streaks
- Leaderboards
For everyone
Cybersecurity for everyday digital life.
The internet is part of everyday life. So are scams, privacy risks, misinformation, account takeovers and increasingly sophisticated digital threats.
We make cybersecurity easier to understand, talk about and use in the moments that matter.
From Hacktales
Ideas worth understanding.
Analysis, explainers and perspectives on the forces shaping cybersecurity, technology, careers and digital life.
Built from Africa. Connected to the world.
Our mission starts in Africa. Our work can travel anywhere.
Cybersecurity doesn't stop at borders. Hacktales develops professionals for local and global opportunities, builds learning products that can be used anywhere, and provides cybersecurity expertise to organizations across markets.
Africa is where we're building capability. The world is where that capability can compete.
Proof, not promises.
[X+]learners developed
[X]countries represented or reached
[X+]organizations supported or secured
[X+]community members
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Whatever part of the ecosystem you're in, there's a place to start.
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