Üsta Digital

Boris Kouambo Ndam

Founder & CEO

We put cyber risk in Rand. Actuarial method, Africa-native, and it works without a mature telemetry stack — for organisations in any sector whose cyber exposure is material enough to matter.

Upcoming talks

18 November 2026

Exposed by Default: How Cloud & SaaS Adoption Has Outpaced Security Governance

Africa Tech Festival 2026 — Chairperson, Cybersecurity stage, and panel moderator · CTICC, Cape Town

A day chairing the Cybersecurity stage, and a panel on what governance is left holding once cloud and SaaS adoption has run ahead of it. The question the stage will be putting to every speaker: what is that exposure worth in Rand?

Past talks

8 October 2026

The Risk We Left to the Engineers: Quantifying Cyber Exposure Without a Loss History

53rd ASSA Convention — Enterprise Risk Management track · Ballroom West, CTICC, Cape Town

Cyber has no loss history, no settled exposure denominator and no local benchmark to borrow from. None of those problems are specific to cyber, and the actuarial toolkit already has answers to all of them. For actuaries and risk professionals.

17 September 2026

Communicating Progress: Stakeholder Newsletters & Monthly Reports

Darkies in Tech · Online — Google Meet

How a monthly update builds belief with investors and advisors — and why writing one changes how you run the company. For founders.

15 August 2026

Cyber Risk in the Age of AI: From Threats to Financial Impact

ISC2 Cape Town Chapter — “Beyond Compliance: Building Measurable Cyber Resilience” · Old Mutual, Pinelands

The argument in one line: AI is the reason quantification stopped being optional.

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Figures in the deck are illustrative and labelled as such. They are not benchmarks and should not be read as one.