[kictanet] Stung by cyber attacks, State resolves to host websites locally

[Ngigi Waithaka]

Central Management of GoK;s website hosting is a step in the right
direction as the skills needed to protect government infrastructure can
also be centralized. However, it also gives you a single point of failure
where if anyone gets in, then the whole government could be compromised.

On the other hand, is there any advantage to be had from a security PoV
from hosting websites in Kenya? Is there say a Data Center in .KE that can
withstand a well co-ordinated DDOS Attack on its infrastructure?

Not one.

As an example, this (
http://www.itnews.com.au/News/372033,worlds-largest-ddos-strikes.aspx )
DDOS attack on CloudFare sometime back was generating around 400GPS of
Traffic. If this was to be directed to our one data center, then KRA, CBK,
Immigration, County Revenue sites etc would all be down.

So as we put all our  'eggs' in one basket we better watch that basket
really really carefully.

Regards


On Fri, Jul 25, 2014 at 11:05 AM, Mwendwa Kivuva via kictanet <
kictanet at lists.kictanet.or.ke> wrote:

> All State-owned websites will be hosted locally in order to curb rising
> cases of cyber security attacks.
>
> This was a key resolution at a crisis meeting held on Thursday between top
> security officials and the Ministry of ICT.
>
> Held at Communication Authority of Kenya (CAK), the meeting was called to
> discuss the safety preparedness of the government to handle cyber attacks.
>
> It comes just days after hacking of the Kenya Defence Forces’ social media
> accounts including the official email account of the military spokesperson
> Emmanuel Chirchir.
>
> In attendance were ICT principal secretary Joseph Tiampati,
> representatives of the National Intelligence Service, Kenya Defence Forces,
> CID, CAK director-general Francis Wangusi and ICT Authority chief executive.
>
>
> http://www.nation.co.ke/business/Cyber-Security-Attacks-ICT-Ministry/-/996/2396632/-/g6u9p4z/-/index.html
>
>
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