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

[Nasser Kettani]

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From: kictanet [mailto:kictanet-bounces+nasser.kettani=microsoft.com at lists.kictanet.or.ke] On Behalf Of Mouz via kictanet
Sent: vendredi 25 juillet 2014 12:41
To: Nasser Kettani
Subject: Re: [kictanet] Stung by cyber attacks, State resolves to host websites locally

The ICT principal secretary,the National Intelligence Service, Kenya Defence Forces, CID, CAK director-general and ICT Authority chief executive think state websites can be made secure simply by moving them to Kenya! We should be very worried! God-forbid that these hackers should get ideas of hacking other government systems that are more crucial to us, we will be annihilated!

On 25 July 2014 14:32, Brian Munyao Longwe via kictanet <kictanet at lists.kictanet.or.ke<mailto:kictanet at lists.kictanet.or.ke>> wrote:
Good step by Government.
First advantage, no foreign government can gain access to our government's content though legal (or illegal) intercept.
There will be growing pains as these are preliminary baby steps - but it is a move in the right direction IMHO
Mblayo

On Fri, Jul 25, 2014 at 11:25 AM, Adam Nelson via kictanet <kictanet at lists.kictanet.or.ke<mailto:kictanet at lists.kictanet.or.ke>> wrote:
It looks like the sites will be hosted by CAK internally.  Of course, that's a recipe for monoculture and some serious problems around stagnation of eGovernment products.  Smarter would be:

1. Have compulsory training on basic security for all government employees who work in an office.
2. Get all government employees on a modern OS (OS X Mavericks, Windows 8, Ubuntu 14.04, Android 4.4, iOS 7, etc..).  Any hardware than can't support these OSes should be auctioned off.
3. Turn on two-factor authentication wherever possible
4. Aside from totally sensitive information (CBK, MoD, office of President), put everything on a local public cloud like Kili (http://kili.io).
5. Use vendors to do application implementations that are NOT the hosts of the application (i.e. Seven Seas should implement but not be the host and Kili should host but not write the application - this prevents lock-in and staleness which leads to security holes).
6. For deeply sensitive stuff, deploy private clouds that are not connected to the Internet.  Some vendors locally can do this (including Kili of course).

-Adam

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