Meet RealTyme at the 2026 ITU Inter-Regional CyberDrill for Africa and Arab States

TL;DR: RealTyme will participate in the 2026 ITU Inter-Regional CyberDrill for Africa and Arab States, held 30 June – 3 July 2026 at Victoria Falls, Zimbabwe. Our team will join national CIRTs, cybersecurity authorities, and policymakers from across two regions — and take the stage to share our perspective on sovereign communications and cyber resilience.

RealTyme will participate in the 2026 ITU Inter-Regional CyberDrill for Africa and Arab States, hosted by the Postal and Telecommunications Regulatory Authority of Zimbabwe (POTRAZ) at Elephant Hills Resort, Victoria Falls, from 30 June to 3 July 2026.  

Convened by the International Telecommunication Union (ITU), the CyberDrill brings together national CIRTs, CSIRTs, cybersecurity agencies, ministries, regulators, and law enforcement from across the Africa and Arab States regions to strengthen technical capabilities, improve incident response coordination, and build regional cyber resilience.

RealTyme will take the stage, bringing our perspective on sovereign communications infrastructure and its role in national cyber defence to one of the most operationally focused cybersecurity gatherings on the African and Arab States calendar.

What Is the ITU Inter-Regional CyberDrill?

The ITU CyberDrill programme is one of the most established multilateral cybersecurity exercise frameworks in the world, grounded in the five pillars of the ITU Global Cybersecurity Agenda (GCA). The 2026 Inter-Regional edition brings together the Africa and Arab States regions in a shared exercise — reflecting the growing recognition that cyber threats respect neither national boundaries nor regional divides.

Hosted by the Postal and Telecommunications Regulatory Authority of Zimbabwe (POTRAZ), the 2026 CyberDrill spans four days and is structured around ITU's four core thematic concepts: Reflect, Share, Learn, and Practice — moving from strategic review to hands-on operational exercises.  

The event objectives are both practical and political: fostering collaboration and information sharing between national CIRTs and law enforcement agencies; enhancing the ability of participating countries to prevent, detect, investigate, and respond to cyberattacks; promoting the adoption of international cybersecurity standards and best practices; and helping Member States build the capacity they need to address an evolving threat landscape.

For the Africa and Arab States regions — where national CIRT maturity varies significantly across Member States and where digital infrastructure is expanding rapidly — exercises of this kind are not optional capacity-building. They are a strategic necessity.

Why RealTyme Is Present

Africa and the Arab States are at a pivotal moment in their digital trajectories. Rapid infrastructure expansion, growing digitisation of government services, and increasing integration into global financial and communications networks are creating both opportunity and exposure. As national CIRTs mature and regional cooperation frameworks develop, the question of what infrastructure underpins those capabilities becomes critical.

Sovereign communications is not a luxury reserved for established digital economies. It is a foundational requirement for any nation that takes its cyber sovereignty seriously — and it is precisely the nations building their digital infrastructure now that have the most to gain from getting the architecture right from the outset.

For governments, cybersecurity authorities, and critical infrastructure operators across Africa and the Arab States navigating frameworks aligned with ITU's GCA pillars, NIS2-equivalent national strategies, and emerging data sovereignty regulations, the communications layer that carries sensitive national security information is a strategic variable — not an operational afterthought.

RealTyme's platform — deployed as on-premises, sovereign cloud, or Swiss cloud — is designed precisely for the environments that CyberDrill participants operate in: high-stakes, jurisdictionally complex, and increasingly targeted. Our post-quantum cryptography architecture ensures that the communications infrastructure supporting national cyber defence operations remains resilient not just against today's threats, but against the quantum-era attacks that CIRT teams will face in the years ahead.

Meet RealTyme at the ITU CyberDrill 2026

Members of the RealTyme team will be present in Victoria Falls from 30 June to 3 July 2026. We welcome the opportunity to connect with national CIRT teams, cybersecurity authorities, ministry representatives, regulators, and industry peers from across the Africa and Arab States regions.

If you will be attending the 2026 ITU Inter-Regional CyberDrill and would like to meet or attend our session, please reach out to schedule time with our team.

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About ITU

The International Telecommunication Union (ITU) is the United Nations specialised agency for information and communication technologies. Founded in 1865 and headquartered in Geneva, ITU coordinates the shared global use of the radio spectrum, promotes international cooperation in satellite orbit assignment, works to improve telecommunications infrastructure in the developing world, and establishes the worldwide standards that foster interconnection of a vast range of communications systems.  

ITU's Development Sector (ITU-D) leads capacity-building programmes on cybersecurity, digital infrastructure, and ICT policy across 193 Member States.

About RealTyme

RealTyme is a Geneva-based sovereign secure communications company building quantum-resilient infrastructure for organisations that cannot afford to compromise on privacy or security. RealTyme's platform is designed for a post-quantum world — protecting communications, data, and identities against both current and emerging threats, for governments, defence institutions, and critical institutions worldwide.  

RealTyme ensures total institutional autonomy over communications infrastructure. As an ITU Academy partner, RealTyme supports cybersecurity capacity building across ITU's global network of Member States.