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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="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">One method that may be used to assess our level of preparedness with regards to cybersecurity is the use of the ITU National Cybersecurity/critical information infrastructure protection (CIIP) Self-Assessment Tool.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </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="arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"></span>This tool is intended to assist governments in examining their existing national policies, procedures, norms, institutions, and relationships in light of national needs to enhance cybersecurity and address critical information infrastructure protection. (</font></span><span lang="EN-US"><a href="http://www.itu.int/ITU-D/cyb/cybersecurity/projects/readiness.html"><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">http://www.itu.int/ITU-D/cyb/cybersecurity/projects/readiness.html</font></a>)</span></div>
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<div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, May 5, 2009 at 2:52 AM, 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="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><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> </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 style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><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> </span>This presents a situation where low usage and poor connectivity has acted as our “security”.<span> </span></font></font></span></p>
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<p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><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 style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><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 style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><span lang="EN-US"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span lang="EN-US"><span lang="EN-US"></span></span>What is our level of cybersecurity preparedness (as government, operator, service providers, private sector organizations and educational institutions)?</font></span></div>
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<div style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><span lang="EN-US"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span></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> </span></font></span></div>
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<div style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><span lang="EN-US"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span></span>What is needed to protect our data and infrastructure from increased threats and at what cost?</font></span></div>
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<div style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><span lang="EN-US"><span lang="EN-US"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">Mwende</font></span></span></div></blockquote></div><br>