[kictanet] Draft National ICT Policy Discussions Day 7 of 10: How to enhance Cybersecurity
Gideon
gideonrop at gmail.com
Thu Jun 30 13:41:38 EAT 2016
Dear Listers,
Thank you for these moving inputs.
On today's important topic how to enhance Cybersecurity, i will zero in on
the awareness of the end user. Most of the time the end user may not know
that they are a subject of an attack and that boils down to the need for
basic knowledge sharing on what constitutes a cyber attack and how to
secure your own system from viruses, malware and lately ransomware among
other attacks.
I believe many users need a constant reminder to update their system
protections and also know what and where not to click, this could help a
lot.
On the issue of privacy, i did a paper sometimes back on social media and
privacy, and from my small survey, i discovered not many users of these
platforms had read or knew about what their rights as regards privacy,
personal data among other key implements.
Therefore again I call for constant efforts for awareness.
Kind regards
Gideon Rop
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> 1. Re: Draft National ICT Policy Discussions Day 7 of 10: How to
> enhance Cybersecurity (Sam Oduor)
> 2. Re: Draft National ICT Policy Discussions Day 7 of 10: How to
> enhance Cybersecurity (Barrack Otieno)
> 3. Re: Draft National ICT Policy Discussions Day 7 of 10: How to
> enhance Cybersecurity (Ali Hussein)
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> Date: Thu, 30 Jun 2016 12:41:32 +0300
> From: Sam Oduor <sam.oduor at gmail.com>
> To: KICTAnet ICT Policy Discussions <kictanet at lists.kictanet.or.ke>
> Subject: Re: [kictanet] Draft National ICT Policy Discussions Day 7 of
> 10: How to enhance Cybersecurity
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> 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
> > +254721325277
> > +254733206359
> > Skype: barrack.otieno
> > PGP ID: 0x2611D86A
> >
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> To: Sam Oduor <sam.oduor at gmail.com>
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> 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
> >> +254721325277
> >> +254733206359
> >> Skype: barrack.otieno
> >> PGP ID: 0x2611D86A
> >>
> >> _______________________________________________
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> >>
> >> The Kenya ICT Action Network (KICTANet) is a multi-stakeholder platform
> >> for people and institutions interested and involved in ICT policy and
> >> regulation. The network aims to act as a catalyst for reform in the ICT
> >> sector in support of the national aim of ICT enabled growth and
> >> development.
> >>
> >> KICTANetiquette : Adhere to the same standards of acceptable behaviors
> >> online that you follow in real life: respect people's times and
> >> bandwidth,
> >> share knowledge, don't flame or abuse or personalize, respect privacy,
> do
> >> not spam, do not market your wares or qualifications.
> >>
> >
> >
> >
> > --
> > Samson Oduor
> >
>
>
> --
> Barrack O. Otieno
> +254721325277
> +254733206359
> Skype: barrack.otieno
> PGP ID: 0x2611D86A
>
>
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> Message: 3
> Date: Thu, 30 Jun 2016 13:03:45 +0300
> From: Ali Hussein <ali at hussein.me.ke>
> To: KICTAnet ICT Policy Discussions <kictanet at lists.kictanet.or.ke>
> Subject: Re: [kictanet] Draft National ICT Policy Discussions Day 7 of
> 10: How to enhance Cybersecurity
> Message-ID: <EA30E4BA-9121-4085-84C5-61C532BA527A at hussein.me.ke>
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>
> All
>
> In relation to this, I discovered today that a lot of the privacy issues
> are allegedly being violated by a certain global brand.
>
> Google, could have a record of everything you have said around it for
> years, and you can listen to it yourself.
>
> The company quietly records many of the conversations that people have
> around its products.
>
> The feature works as a way of letting people search with their voice, and
> storing those recordings presumably lets Google improve its language
> recognition tools as well as the results that it gives to people.
>
> Read on:-
>
>
> http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/gadgets-and-tech/news/google-voice-search-records-and-stores-conversation-people-have-around-their-phones-but-files-can-be-a7059376.html
>
> In relation to this discussion we would love to have a comment from the
> Ministry and Google.
>
> Ali Hussein
> Principal
> Hussein & Associates
> +254 0713 601113 / 0770906375
>
> Twitter: @AliHKassim
> Skype: abu-jomo
> LinkedIn: http://ke.linkedin.com/in/alihkassim
>
>
> "Discovery consists in seeing what everyone else has seen and thinking
> what no one else has thought". ~ Albert Szent-Gy?rgyi
>
> Sent from my iPad
>
> > On 30 Jun 2016, at 12:52 PM, Barrack Otieno via kictanet <
> kictanet at lists.kictanet.or.ke> wrote:
> >
> > 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
> >>> +254721325277
> >>> +254733206359
> >>> Skype: barrack.otieno
> >>> PGP ID: 0x2611D86A
> >>>
> >>> _______________________________________________
> >>> kictanet mailing list
> >>> kictanet at lists.kictanet.or.ke
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> >>> Unsubscribe or change your options at
> >>>
> https://lists.kictanet.or.ke/mailman/options/kictanet/sam.oduor%40gmail.com
> >>>
> >>> The Kenya ICT Action Network (KICTANet) is a multi-stakeholder platform
> >>> for people and institutions interested and involved in ICT policy and
> >>> regulation. The network aims to act as a catalyst for reform in the ICT
> >>> sector in support of the national aim of ICT enabled growth and
> >>> development.
> >>>
> >>> KICTANetiquette : Adhere to the same standards of acceptable behaviors
> >>> online that you follow in real life: respect people's times and
> >>> bandwidth,
> >>> share knowledge, don't flame or abuse or personalize, respect privacy,
> do
> >>> not spam, do not market your wares or qualifications.
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> --
> >> Samson Oduor
> >
> >
> > --
> > Barrack O. Otieno
> > +254721325277
> > +254733206359
> > Skype: barrack.otieno
> > PGP ID: 0x2611D86A
> >
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> > The Kenya ICT Action Network (KICTANet) is a multi-stakeholder platform
> for people and institutions interested and involved in ICT policy and
> regulation. The network aims to act as a catalyst for reform in the ICT
> sector in support of the national aim of ICT enabled growth and development.
> >
> > KICTANetiquette : Adhere to the same standards of acceptable behaviors
> online that you follow in real life: respect people's times and bandwidth,
> share knowledge, don't flame or abuse or personalize, respect privacy, do
> not spam, do not market your wares or qualifications.
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