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A cybersecurity R&D startup, built in Dakar.

PCYBOX is a cybersecurity R&D startup based in Dakar, Senegal. It designs and builds its own cybersecurity technologies end to end, from research to production code, and puts that expertise to work for its clients: platforms secure by design, security testing, incident management and training.

Our mission

Cyber tools designed in Africa, controlled by the people who use them.

Give organizations cyber tools designed in Africa and controlled by the people who use them: code, data and hosting stay under their control.

Our signature: We build it. We secure it. Our principle: security is not bolted on. It is designed in.

PCYBOX at a glance

Name
PCYBOX
Positioning
R&D startup: cybersecurity technologies built end to end
Based in
Dakar, Senegal
Coverage
Senegal, Africa and internationally, remotely or on site, in French and English
Founded
2025
Areas
Secure development, application security, custom cybersecurity, advisory and training
Products
CERT Platform, ThreatShare, Orbis, SENTINEL (R&D), AttackGraph (open source Lab)
Programs
Claude for Startups (Anthropic), NVIDIA Inception (NVIDIA)
Contact
contact@pcybox.com

The context

Five obstacles to organizational security.

What we see in the field, in Senegal and West Africa. These are not market statistics.

  1. Poorly controlled data

    Tools and data hosted with no visibility on where they live or who can access them.

  2. Bolted-on security

    Security arrives after go-live, when fixing things is expensive.

  3. Undetected flaws

    Applications exposed without penetration testing or code review.

  4. Scattered incidents

    Reports and follow-up spread across teams, tools and inboxes.

  5. Scarce skills

    Few teams are trained in secure development and incident response.

PCYBOX answers them with technologies and services. They complement your existing tools (EDR, SIEM, SOC) without replacing them.

Journey

From first projects to a full offering.

All our products were designed, built and secured in Dakar.

  1. 2024

    First projects

    Software engineering, offensive security and vulnerability analysis tools.

  2. 2025

    Founded in Dakar

    PCYBOX is created. CERT Platform is developed and tested.

  3. Next

    Products and open source

    ThreatShare in production, Orbis and AttackGraph released on GitHub.

  4. Today

    Full offering

    Four products and one open source tool, supported by Claude for Startups and NVIDIA Inception.

Roadmap

Three stages, from foundations to growth.

No dates are committed. Each stage starts when the previous one delivers results.

  1. Stage 1Planned

    Consolidate the foundations

    • Deploy CERT Platform
    • Orbis Enterprise pilots
    • Development and AppSec engagements

  2. Stage 2R&D

    AI-assisted workflows

    • Threat contextualization
    • Investigation support
    • Always with human validation

  3. Stage 3Under evaluation

    Integrate and scale

    • Connect the products together
    • Third-party integrations
    • SENTINEL: from R&D to the field

Team

A team led by an application security specialist.

Ibrahima Khalilou Lahi Samb, founder and CEO of PCYBOX

Ibrahima Khalilou Lahi Samb

Founder and CEO

  • 4 years designing, building, deploying and securing web applications.
  • Backend and application security consultant since 2022: contributions to platforms for international organizations and ministries in Senegal, Côte d'Ivoire and Chad.
  • Trainer in web development and secure development.

Education

  • Degree in cybersecurity and cyber defense
  • Degree in backend development

Skills

  • Software engineering and architecture
  • Application security (OWASP Top 10, ASVS)
  • Threat modeling
  • Secure SDLC and DevSecOps
  • Web and API penetration testing
  • Code review and SAST / DAST analysis
  • Vulnerability management
  • Identity and access management
  • Threat intelligence and incident management
  • Applied AI (LLM, RAG)

The organizations mentioned are those the founder worked for as a consultant. They are not PCYBOX clients. iks-dev.com

Support

Supported by two leading programs.

These are support programs. They are neither a commercial partnership nor an endorsement of our products by Anthropic or NVIDIA.

Claude for Startups (Anthropic)

Anthropic

Claude for Startups

The program
Credits, sessions with Anthropic's Applied AI team, events and community.
For PCYBOX
Expertise and resources for our AI-assisted workflows, always with human validation.
claude.com/programs/startups
NVIDIA Inception (NVIDIA)

NVIDIA

NVIDIA Inception

The program
Technical training, SDKs and tools, cloud credits, access to an investor network.
For PCYBOX
Resources to speed up the R&D of our products, including Orbis Enterprise.
nvidia.com/startups

Commitments

What we guarantee in every project and engagement.

Ownership and reversibility
On custom projects, source code and documentation are handed over to the client.
Confidentiality
Non-disclosure agreement. Testing only with written authorization.
Continuity
Dedicated team, skills transfer, planned maintenance.
Reference framework
Senegalese Law No. 2008-12 on personal data, GDPR where applicable, OWASP standards.

Who we serve

Based in Dakar, open to the world.

We work in Senegal, across Africa and internationally, remotely or on site, in French and English. For international organizations present in Africa, we are a technical partner on the ground. The audiences below are those we serve; we do not publish client references at this stage.

  • International organizations, donors and NGOs operating in Africa that need a local technical partner
  • Public institutions: business platforms and incident management
  • CERT / CSIRT and incident response teams
  • Companies: secure development, penetration testing and code review
  • Organizations without an in-house security team
  • Development and operations teams to train

Want to talk?

A project, an engagement, a partnership or just a conversation: write to us.

Get in touchcontact@pcybox.com