Alarm Over GenAI Risk Fuels Security Spending in Middle East & Africa

Organizations in the Middle East and Africa are accelerating generative AI adoption, driving significant increases in data privacy and cloud security spending amid new risks like employee data leakage, LLM hallucinations, and attacker use of GenAI to automate reconnaissance and sharpen social engineering (as noted by Microsoft/OpenAI and Gartner). While interest and pilots are widespread, AI and cloud maturity remain uneven due to connectivity and regulatory challenges, even as governments advance data-protection laws. Analysts advocate a "trust by design" approach, clear AI use cases, skilled teams, and scalable processes, while vendors embed AI/ML to alleviate security team workloads.