[kictanet] Draft National ICT Policy Discussions Day 7 of 10: How to enhance Cybersecurity

[Sam Oduor]

Hi Barrack

A great comment has been posted on the Jadii Platform

June Tessy - a day ago Do we really need another 'specialized' agency yet
there are already existing units in Government and Regulators that are
mandated to deal with these like the National Intelligence Service, ICTA,
CA Perhaps building onto the already existing units in terms of resources
and capacity may be more sustainable


On Thu, Jun 30, 2016 at 7:29 AM, Barrack Otieno via kictanet <
kictanet at lists.kictanet.or.ke> wrote:

> Listers,
>
> Many thanks to those who contribued to day 6 discussions. The thread
> is still open, we also encourage listers to edit the policy directly
> on the Jadili platform
> (http://jadili.ictpolicy.org/docs/kenya-ict-policy).
>
> Today we focus on the following areas:
>
>
> *Online Citizen Safety,
> *Child Protection
> *Privacy issues
> *Security business transactions (Info-Security)
> *Security & Reliability of Critical ICT infrastructure
>
> The Background:
>
> The more we automate and rely on digital services, the more vulnerable
> we become as a  society to cybercrime and other threats facing the
> digital society.
>
> The regulator has a Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT), the
> industry (TESPOK) also has a CERT, the  Department  of Criminal
> Investigation & National Intelligence also have CERT. What is not
> clear is whether  there is a framework to have these teams working
> together and their capacity to counter a full-blown cyber attack
> against our digital national assets.
>
> Additionally, the tension between citizen privacy and national
> security, citizen privacy and business (profit) concerns remain
> perhaps due to lack of Data Protection, eTransaction and other laws.
> Finally, special protection for vulnerable groups (children) going
> online is non-existent.
>
> What needs to be done around these issues?
>
> Kindly submit your views.
>
> Best Regards
>
> --
> Barrack O. Otieno
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Samson Oduor
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