"Digitalisation now made almost a must for many businesses by the covid-19 pandemic", comes with intent risks, from hackers with ill intent of stealing from or harming the business, According to the National Information Technology Authority of Uganda, NITA-U; technology alone would not be enough but the human being using the technology must be aware of the dangers . "Digitalisation now made almost a must for many businesses by the covid-19 pandemic", comes with intent risks, from hackers with ill intent of stealing from or harming the business, According to the National Information Technology Authority of Uganda, NITA-U; technology alone would not be enough but the human being using the technology must be aware of the dangers . "if your staff aware on the password hyginene, if your staff aware on even identifying the threats, because some people see things running on their computers and they can't tell why, havent touched anything but my mouse is running from z to.., so if you can create that awareness within your organisation, it goes along way to create a cyber safe environment for you as an SME ""because cyber security is a very agile huh, its an evolving kind of space. you will invest in this technology today before you know it, you will have to invest in the next technology, you will have to do abc."During a conference organised by NITA-U on cyber security, it emerged that in persuing the customer, businesses have put innovation ahead of everything."what has not been huh happening to our liking is, the digital strategy is not moving in line with the security strategy, so, its happen, security is happening as more of an aftersoft, unfortunately when the incident happens is when some instituitions fall back  and start figure out what it is that didnt work in the security perspetive"its now that businesses must not only digitalise but also be ready to deal with the ocurring risks and challenges of the digital world