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<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: justify; mso-layout-grid-align: none"><span lang="EN-US"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">It now not uncommon to hear about cyber terrorism, cyber crime, cyber attacks, Information Warfare, etc.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>Recent examples of cyber attacks in Estonia and Georgia show that the Internet offers an inexpensive and easy weapon of modern warfare.</font></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: justify; mso-layout-grid-align: none"><span lang="EN-US"><font size="3"><font face="Times New Roman">Fortunately, we as a country may not have yet experienced critical security threats possibly because majority of users/organizations have access to ‘less than broadband speeds’ thus providing no incentive for meaningful exploits.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>This presents a situation where low usage and poor connectivity has acted as our “security”.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span></font></font></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: justify; mso-layout-grid-align: none"><span lang="EN-US"><font size="3"><font face="Times New Roman">However, with the growing use of the Internet, encouraged by the availability broadband connections locally, nationally (Fibre optic national project, operator networks) and internationally (TEAMS, SEACOM), the number of incidences of online security breaches are set to increase.</font></font></span></p>
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: justify; mso-layout-grid-align: none"><span lang="EN-US"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span lang="EN-US"><span lang="EN-US"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">Thank you Harry Delano (email 29<sup>th</sup> April) for raising the following important questions for our discussion today.</font></span></span></font></span></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: justify; mso-layout-grid-align: none"><span lang="EN-US"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"></span>Have we made an assessment of our cybersecurity preparedness levels, to date, particularly with the impending landing of international submarine fibre optic cable? <span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span></font></span></div>
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