Oluwadara Gbenle

Founder & CEO · CyberMunity

Oluwadara Gbenle

I founded CyberMunity to stop phishing before it reaches people.

SMS Protect v2.0 · 95% detection accuracy

The Story

Research that became a company

In 2021, my final-year research at Landmark University became SMSPROTECT, a mobile app that detects smishing attacks. The research was published in ICT Express and has been cited 46 times.

In 2023, the research became a company. I co-founded CyberMunity to bring AI-powered phishing protection to enterprises. Today our flagship product, SMS Protect v2.0, catches malicious texts at 95% accuracy in under 200 milliseconds.

I lead the company as CEO. I also still write the code. Both of those matter.

2023
Company founded
95%
Detection accuracy
<200ms
Real-time inference
220+
Research citations

The Company

CyberMunity

AI-powered cybersecurity for enterprises. We catch the attacks that target people, not just systems.

SMS Protect logo

SMS Protect v2.0

Flagship product

Intercepts SMS phishing in real time, before it ever reaches your users. The AI model was trained in-house and serves predictions in production.

95% accuracy <200ms inference Runs on Azure
Visit SMS Protect ↗

How it's built

NestJS and Python under the hood. Deployed on Azure with Terraform, containerized with Docker, shipped through CI/CD. When we migrated the whole backend to Azure, it took 2 days. The story is public.

NestJS Python Azure Docker Terraform

Team

Co-founded with Afolabi Oguntuase, infrastructure lead. Supported by a board of advisors.

The Journey

From a research paper to a product in production

2021

The research

SMSPROTECT built as final-year work at Landmark University, presented at the ITED conference.

2022

Peer-reviewed

Published in ICT Express (Scopus-indexed). 46 citations and counting.

2023

The company

CyberMunity founded. Founders Institute Abuja alumnus. GITEX Africa Startup Competition semi-finalist, Cybersecurity track. Exhibited at GITEX Global and Expand North Star in Dubai.

2025

v2.0 ships

95% detection accuracy in production. Full backend migrated to Azure with Terraform in 2 days.

Now

Growing

Working with early enterprise users and building toward wider rollout.

Recognition & Research

Vetted by juries. Cited by researchers.

🏆

GITEX Africa Morocco 2023

Startup Competition Semi-Finalist, Cybersecurity track

🌍

GITEX Global & Expand North Star, Dubai 2023

Exhibited CyberMunity's security solutions on the global stage

🎓

Founders Institute Abuja

Startup Accelerator Alumnus, 2023

Let's Talk

Enterprise pilot, partnership, or an investor conversation. Tell me what you have in mind and I'll get back to you.