About Us
Urban IT provides innovative IT consultancy to organizations in East & Central Africa region.

Mobile Applications & Payment Systems
We offer services enabling global wireless solutions for enterprises and business who want to benefit from the mobile channel by delivering services aimed at generating revenues, improving business efficiency and proactively managing relationships with customers through personalized interaction.
Employing partnerships with Mobile operators, Communications Regulators and Infrastructureproviders, UrbanIT acts as a Mobile Virtual Network Operator (MVNO), with a clear focus on mobile value chain. UrbanIT has the infrastructure that blue chip enterprises and business have recognized, putting us as the leaders in delivering services aimed at generating revenues, improving business efficiency and proactively managing relationships with customers.
UrbanIT has developed its own brand – UrbanIT Message Gateway® (UMG®) and UrbanIT USSD Gateway (UUG®). All our implementations abide by international accepted standards such as ETSI.
Information Security& Cybercrime
We protect your people, data and brand against advanced threats and compliance risks. Built on the cloud and the world’s most advanced intelligence platform, our solutions help you effectively detect and block targeted attacks and respond quickly to suspected compromises. We have partnered with the most advanced Cyber Crime awareness companies who are also leaders in the Gartner Magic Quadrant and the fastest-growing vendor in this space.
1. Knowbe4 – www.knowbe4.com
2. ProofPoint – https://www.proofpoint.com
These are the world’s largest security awareness training and simulated phishing platform that helps organizations manage the ongoing problem of social engineering.
Our solutions include;
Protect Email, Social, Mobile
Advanced Email Security
Email Security Solutions for Service Providers
Security and Compliance for Small Business
Next Generation Compliance Solutions
Digital Brand, Security and Compliance Risk
EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)
Proven Suite of Solutions
Our solutions stop 99% of attachment-based attacks. And every day, we detect and block advanced threats and compliance risks in more than 600 million emails, more than 7 million mobile apps, and hundreds of thousands of social-media accounts.
We also help customers share large files securely and protect sensitive information as it’s sent, stored, and archived.
Old-school awareness training does not hack it anymore
Your email filters have an average 10.5% failure rate; you need a strong human firewall as your last line of defense. We provide a new platform for new-school security awareness training.
We help you keep your users on their toes with security top of mind. With this new-school integrated platform you can train and phish your users, see their Phish-prone percentage™ improve over time and get measurable results.
You get on-demand, interactive, engaging training through the browser combined with unlimited simulated social engineering attacks through email, phone and text. With our platform you can use unique features like the Smart Groups for ad-hoc reporting, our Automated Security Awareness Program to create your fully mature, customized program, and the powerful Active Directory Integration for easy and fast user management.
We are a great way to manage the ongoing problem of social engineering.