esentry, one of Africa’s leading Managed Security Service Providers (MSSP), is elevating Africa’s cybersecurity posture with its proactive, AI innovation-led technologies backed by artificial intelligence.
The Nigerian-based managed and owned cybersecurity company began as part of its parent company, Cybervergent, an emerging tech powerhouse offering AI-powered systems that help modern enterprises confidently navigate regulatory complexity and operational risk.
From offensive security to threat intelligence and from digital forensics to phishing simulations, the esentry aims to simplify cybersecurity, reduce complexity, and deliver robust, proactive protection that meets the urgency of today’s threat landscape.
While many providers focus on reacting to attacks, esentry is built to anticipate them. Its solutions are tailored to Africa’s unique risk-dynamic enterprise landscape — from sophisticated phishing scams targeting financial services to stealthy vulnerabilities lurking in healthcare systems and government platforms. Driven by AI inflection, the company leverages automation and threat intelligence to hunt down potential breaches before they happen, giving businesses a chance to stay ahead, not just recover.
With a team of cyber defenders working behind the scenes, esentry delivers real-time monitoring, forensic support, and proactive assessments — turning cybersecurity from a checkbox into a competitive advantage.
According to Gbolabo Awelewa, Chief Business Officer (CBO) at esentry, “over the past few months, we’ve taken a step back, not to pause but to evolve. What started under Cybervergent has now taken on a life of its own. esentry is officially standing solo. Sharper in our focus, stronger in our purpose and more committed than ever to cybersecurity the way it should be done with clarity, speed and practicality. This new chapter isn’t just about independence, it’s about intention – because threats don’t slow down and neither can we. Our mission is simple; to catch threats before they become problems while securing your data.”
Since its inception, esentry has remained committed to its vision to engineer digital trust and safety for businesses, enterprises, and institutions across Africa by staying true to its goal to proactively detect and prevent cyber threats before they occur, shaped by its core values of proficiency, agility, customer success and trustworthiness.
With its mission of impacting the African business landscape, esentry provides deep insights into the unique cybersecurity threats faced by businesses and enterprises across the region, earning esentry its renown for building cybersecurity solutions that are relevant and tailored for the growing African digital economy.
Leveraging its strategic insight, esentry offers tailored, proactive, innovation-led cybersecurity solutions to tackle web vulnerabilities and emerging risks from Potentially Unwanted Applications (PUAs). As the continent’s digitalisation evolves at a greater pace, cyber threats have taken organised and enterprise-structured models in deploying stealth attacks to unsuspecting large-scale business conglomerates and data-sensitive high-risk organisations such as fintech, financial services, health care and government enterprises, a pointer that prior reactive patch systems cannot sustain resilience. This sophistication has advanced the need for automated, AI-driven, proactive, and structured cybersecurity solutions, which have never been pertinent.
So, esentry is bridging this gap. The company’s cybersecurity approach is rooted in a combination of advanced techniques and context-driven solutions designed to build resilience, inspire confidence, and establish trust across Africa’s digital ecosystem. Its capabilities span security engineering, offensive security, threat hunting, continuous monitoring, threat intelligence, incident response, and digital forensics.
It deploys EDR and SIEM for real-time visibility, simulates phishing threats to strengthen human defences, and conducts deep-dive API assessments, delivering layered protection tailored to the evolving threat landscape businesses face today – a buffer guarding business across Africa from operational disruption risks, data exposure and compliance compromise.
