Cybersecurity conversations in Africa often focus on attacks after they happen. The focus is usually centred on the bank that suffered a breach, the startup that lost customer data, or the business owner who fell victim to online fraud. What receives less attention is the infrastructure behind digital investigations itself, who has access to it, how expensive it is, and whether African organisations can realistically use these tools at scale.
For Suleiman Farouk, founder and CEO of Sulfman Consulting Limited, that gap is becoming increasingly difficult to ignore.
“Cybersecurity is a shared responsibility,” he stated. “But one of the problems we still have is intelligence sharing and access to the right tools.”
Founded in 2015, Sulfman Consulting has spent over a decade providing cybersecurity services, including penetration testing, cyber threat intelligence, and training. Over the years, the company worked with organisations to identify vulnerabilities across web applications, mobile apps, and network infrastructure, helping businesses understand where they were exposed and how to address those risks.
However, while Sulfman strives to provide cybersecurity solutions, one recurring challenge stood out. Many organisations lacked affordable access to digital intelligence tools that could help them investigate threats, conduct due diligence, or understand their online exposure in real time.
Eagle Watch
As most businesses become digitalised, the amount of publicly available information tied to individuals, organisations, and online infrastructure continues to grow. From recruitment and compliance checks to cybersecurity investigations and fraud prevention, organisations are increasingly relying on digital intelligence to make decisions and assess risk.
However, access to digital investigation tools has traditionally been limited by cost, technical complexity, and availability.
That is the gap Sulfman Consulting Limited is trying to address with Eagle Watch, its AI-powered digital investigation platform.
Launched at GITEX Nigeria in September 2025, Eagle Watch is built on open-source intelligence (OSINT) and designed to help organisations and individuals investigate digital footprints across publicly available online sources. The platform can be used for pre-employment checks, due diligence for executive hires, digital asset monitoring, and broader intelligence gathering.
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“If you want to know more about an individual, a company, or even your own digital assets, Eagle Watch gives you that ability through a simple search,” Farouk explained.
At the centre of the platform is the idea of accessibility. Many advanced intelligence and investigation tools available globally are either built primarily for law enforcement agencies or priced beyond what most African businesses can afford.
“What we’re trying to do is lower the barrier,” he said. “We want to make digital investigation accessible, not just for law enforcement agencies, but also for organisations, business owners, and people who need to carry out due diligence.”
That focus on affordability is reflected in Eagle Watch’s pricing model. The platform operates on a token-based system, where users purchase tokens to conduct searches.
Beyond affordability, Sulfman is also positioning Eagle Watch as a locally built alternative within a cybersecurity ecosystem that still relies heavily on foreign infrastructure and tooling.
The company says Eagle Watch does not perform surveillance or hacking activities. Instead, it aggregates and analyses publicly available information to help users identify patterns, digital footprints, and potential risk indicators.
This distinction is important because the broader conversation around AI-powered investigations increasingly raises questions about privacy, ethics, and misuse. Sulfman maintains that Eagle Watch focuses strictly on publicly accessible data sources.
The company also sees the platform as part of a larger effort to improve intelligence gathering and information sharing within Africa’s cybersecurity ecosystem.
According to Farouk, organisations often fail to share lessons from cyber incidents, creating knowledge gaps that make it harder for others to prepare against evolving attack methods.
“So one company experiences an attack, investigates it internally, and then the information never gets shared across the industry,” he said. “That becomes a problem because attackers evolve continuously.”
In addition to intelligence sharing, he identified training and capacity-building as major gaps within the ecosystem, arguing that Africa needs more locally developed cybersecurity expertise and infrastructure.
Sulfman’s ambitions for Eagle Watch beyond Nigeria
Since its launch, the platform has been showcased at multiple GITEX events, including GITEX Africa in Morocco, where the company demonstrated the product to international audiences. According to Precious Umunnakwe, Sulfman’s Chief Revenue Officer, many attendees were initially surprised to learn that the platform was built in Nigeria and capable of retrieving intelligence beyond local datasets.
“When people tested the platform, they realised it wasn’t limited to Nigerian data,” she said. “It could pull information in real time and build profiles across different regions.”
The company says it has since entered partnership conversations with organisations interested in using Eagle Watch for enhanced due diligence, executive hiring, financial investigations, and enterprise intelligence gathering.
Alongside that expansion, Sulfman has continued refining the platform’s AI infrastructure. Between GITEX Nigeria and GITEX Africa in Morocco, the company upgraded Eagle Watch from a retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) architecture to an agentic AI model, which Farouk says improves speed, accuracy, and contextual analysis.
“We keep building,” he said. “Every improvement we see globally, we ask ourselves how we can adapt it and improve what we already have.”
That momentum has also brought industry recognition. At GITEX Nigeria, Eagle Watch earned a sponsored exhibition opportunity in Kenya, while Sulfman Consulting was recently recognised by the Cybersecurity Experts Association of Nigeria as Cybersecurity Service Provider of the Year 2026.
For now, the company says Eagle Watch is still being bootstrapped internally by Sulfman Consulting, although it remains open to future investor conversations.
And as Africa’s digital economy continues to expand, so does the need for faster due diligence, stronger digital investigations, and more accessible cybersecurity infrastructure. Sulfman believes platforms like Eagle Watch could play a role in helping organisations navigate that reality more effectively.
“We are building for a future where digital intelligence is not limited to a few institutions,” Farouk said. “It should be something organisations can actually access and use.”
