<div>The purpose of Information Security/Cybersecurity is to protect an organizations's valuable resources, such as information, hardware and software. Through the selection and application of appropriate safeguards, Information Security helps the organization's mission by protectiing its physical and financial resources, reputation, legal position, employees, and other tangible and intangible assets.</div>
<div>The issue of cybersecurity/Information security simply comes down to three things: 1) Confidentiality, 2) Integrity and Availability.</div>
<div>Information Security management/cybersecurity entails the identification of an organisation's information assets and developemt, documentation, and implementation of policies, standards, procedures and guidelines, which ensure their Confidentiality, Integrity and Availability.</div>
<div>Unfortunately, cybersecurity is sometimes viewed as hindering the mission of the organisation by impossing poorly selected bothersome rules and procedures on users, managers and systems. On the contrary, if well implemented, Cybersecurity rules and procedures can support the overall organisational mission.<br>
In the case of Kenya, the way to create a culture of cybersecurity is through management tools such as data classification, security awareness traininig, risk assesment and risk analysis in order to identify threats, classify assets, and rate their vulnerabilities so that effective security controls can be implemented.</div>
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<div>Regards,</div>
<div>Evans</div>
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<div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, May 3, 2009 at 10:59 PM, mwende njiraini <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:mwende.njiraini@gmail.com">mwende.njiraini@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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<p style="BACKGROUND: white; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: normal; TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'">Good morning,</span><span style="FONT-SIZE: 9.5pt"></span></p>
<p style="BACKGROUND: white; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: normal; TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 9.5pt"> </span></p>
<p style="BACKGROUND: white; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: normal; TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'">The focus of our discussion this week is on cybersecurity and trust. We will seek to address privacy and data security issues. </span><span style="FONT-SIZE: 9.5pt"></span></p>
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<p style="BACKGROUND: white; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: normal; TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'">Like many other Kenyans, we frequently register to use various online services provided by the government and businesses. The registration process requires that we provide personal information including physical, postal address, telephone numbers, credit card numbers, etc. The younger generation and the young-at-heart are readily sharing “personally identifiable information” including photos and events through social networking sites including facebook, youtube, myspace, flickr, twitter, etc. </span><span style="FONT-SIZE: 9.5pt"></span></p>
<p style="BACKGROUND: white; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: normal; TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'"> </span><span style="FONT-SIZE: 9.5pt"></span></p>
<p style="BACKGROUND: white; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: normal; TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'">Personal information collected and made available in the public domain such as the electoral register, telephone directory can be combined with information for example from supermarkets loyalty cards to create valuable market information to track individual preferences and purchase profiles. This information may unfortunately be subject to abuse and theft. Consequently, ‘trust’ in policies and the security measures that the government and businesses establish to protect user information is therefore an essential element for the success of e-transactions (both e-government and e-commerce)</span><span style="FONT-SIZE: 9.5pt"></span></p>
<p style="BACKGROUND: white; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: normal; TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'"> </span><span style="FONT-SIZE: 9.5pt"></span></p>
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<li style="BACKGROUND: white; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: normal; TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'">How can we create a cyber security culture in Kenya? What is the role of the educators, peers and parents in digital literacy with respect to privacy and security? </span><span style="FONT-SIZE: 9.5pt"></span></li>
<li style="BACKGROUND: white; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: normal; TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'">Does the current legal environment provide for the protection of privacy on the internet? How can we establish a balance between security and right to privacy?</span><span style="FONT-SIZE: 9.5pt"></span></li>
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<p style="BACKGROUND: white; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: normal; TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'">Looking forward to hearing from you.</span><span style="FONT-SIZE: 9.5pt"></span></p>
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<p style="BACKGROUND: white; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: normal; TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'">Kind regards</span><span style="FONT-SIZE: 9.5pt"></span></p>
<p style="BACKGROUND: white; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: normal; TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'">Mwende</span><span style="FONT-SIZE: 9.5pt"></span></p>
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<p style="BACKGROUND: white; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: normal; TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'">References</span><span style="FONT-SIZE: 9.5pt"></span></p>
<p style="BACKGROUND: white; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in; TEXT-INDENT: -0.25in; LINE-HEIGHT: normal; TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 9.5pt"><span>1.<span style="FONT: 7pt 'Times New Roman'"> </span></span></span><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'">Protecting your Privacy on the Internet: <a href="http://privacy.gov.au/internet/internet_privacy/index.html#2" target="_blank"><span style="COLOR: blue">http://privacy.gov.au/internet/internet_privacy/index.html#2</span></a></span><span style="FONT-SIZE: 9.5pt"></span></p>
<p style="BACKGROUND: white; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in; TEXT-INDENT: -0.25in; LINE-HEIGHT: normal; TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 9.5pt"><span>2.<span style="FONT: 7pt 'Times New Roman'"> </span></span></span><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'">Privacy Policies: </span><span style="FONT-SIZE: 9.5pt"><a href="http://www.facebook.com/policy.php?ref=pf" target="_blank"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: windowtext; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; TEXT-DECORATION: none">http://www.facebook.com/policy.php?ref=pf</span></a></span><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'">, </span><span style="FONT-SIZE: 9.5pt"><a href="http://twitter.com/privacy" target="_blank"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: windowtext; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; TEXT-DECORATION: none">http://twitter.com/privacy</span></a></span></p>
<p style="BACKGROUND: white; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in; TEXT-INDENT: -0.25in; LINE-HEIGHT: normal; TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 9.5pt"><span>3.<span style="FONT: 7pt 'Times New Roman'"> </span></span></span><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'">Article 12 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights :<a href="http://www.un.org/en/documents/udhr/index.shtml#a12" target="_blank"><span style="COLOR: blue">http://www.un.org/en/documents/udhr/index.shtml#a12</span></a></span><span style="FONT-SIZE: 9.5pt"></span></p>
<p style="BACKGROUND: white; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in; TEXT-INDENT: -0.25in; LINE-HEIGHT: normal; TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 9.5pt"><span>4.<span style="FONT: 7pt 'Times New Roman'"> </span></span></span><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'">Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada: Protecting Your Privacy on the Internet: </span><span style="FONT-SIZE: 9.5pt"><a href="http://www.priv.gc.ca/fs-fi/02_05_d_13_e.cfm" target="_blank"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: blue; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'">http://www.priv.gc.ca/fs-fi/02_05_d_13_e.cfm</span></a></span></p>
<p style="BACKGROUND: white; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in; TEXT-INDENT: -0.25in; LINE-HEIGHT: normal; TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 9.5pt"><span>5.<span style="FONT: 7pt 'Times New Roman'"> </span></span></span><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'">Privacy illustrations: <a href="http://www.priv.gc.ca/information/illustrations/index_e.cfm" target="_blank"><span style="COLOR: blue">http://www.priv.gc.ca/information/illustrations/index_e.cfm</span></a></span><span style="FONT-SIZE: 9.5pt"></span></p>
<p style="BACKGROUND: white; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in; TEXT-INDENT: -0.25in; LINE-HEIGHT: normal; TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 9.5pt"><span>6.<span style="FONT: 7pt 'Times New Roman'"> </span></span></span><span style="FONT-SIZE: 9.5pt"><a href="http://www.diplomacy.edu/ISL/IG/" target="_blank"><span style="COLOR: blue">http://www.diplomacy.edu/ISL/IG/</span></a></span></p>
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<p style="BACKGROUND: white; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: normal; TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><i><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'">Disclaimer: Views expressed here are the author’s own</span></i><span style="FONT-SIZE: 9.5pt"></span></p>
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