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Executive Director, CyberSafe Foundation

Confidence Staveley is Africa’s Most Celebrated Female Cybersecurity

Leader, Best Selling Author – API Security for White Hat Hackers, Talent Developer, and Gender Inclusion Actionist.

Confidence excels in translating cybersecurity concepts into digestible

insights for diverse audiences. Her YouTube series, “API Kitchen,” explains

API Security using culinary metaphors. In its debut season, the series

amassed over half a million views across social media, as Confidence

served up a banquet of API security wisdom. She recently won the

Cybersecurity Woman of 2023 award and holds several other recognitions.

Beyond her advisory roles on various boards, Confidence leads CyberSafe

Foundation is a foremost NGO devoted to fostering a digitally inclusive and secure landscape in Africa. She is also the founder of MerkleFence and Application Security as a Service (ASaaS) consulting company.