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

[Barrack Otieno]

Great thanks Sam,

We will collate all the comments and forwad them to the Ministry.

Thank you

Best Regards

On 6/30/16, Sam Oduor <sam.oduor at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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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