<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 14px; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><div><div><div>Interesting…the assumption here is that the attacks are coming from outside Kenya…NEWSFLASH: perimeter security is dead, research shows that more than 65% of security threats (cyber or otherwise) come from within – country, government or organisation. </div><div> </div><div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="rgb(0, 0, 0)"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Calibri">Harry Hare</font></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="rgb(0, 0, 0)"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Calibri"><br></font></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#919191"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Calibri"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana; "><span style="font-family: Calibri; ">Director </span><span style="font-family: Calibri; ">|</span><span style="font-family: Calibri; "> </span></span></font><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Calibri; ">African eDevelopment Resource Centre</span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#919191"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Calibri"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana; "><span style="font-family: Calibri; ">PO Box 49475 00100 </span><span style="font-family: Calibri; ">|</span><span style="font-family: Calibri; "> </span></span></font><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Calibri; ">Nairobi, Kenya </span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#919191"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana; "><span style="font-family: Calibri; ">Tel +254 20 4041646 </span><span style="font-family: Calibri; ">|</span><span style="font-family: Calibri; "> </span></span><span style="font-family: Calibri; ">Cel +254 725 650044</span></font></div><div><br></div><div><img src="cid:D25A17D0-C813-4F50-9A1F-DCADF094558D" type="image/png"></div></div></div></div><div><br></div><span id="OLK_SRC_BODY_SECTION"><div style="font-family:Calibri; font-size:11pt; text-align:left; color:black; BORDER-BOTTOM: medium none; BORDER-LEFT: medium none; PADDING-BOTTOM: 0in; PADDING-LEFT: 0in; PADDING-RIGHT: 0in; BORDER-TOP: #b5c4df 1pt solid; BORDER-RIGHT: medium none; PADDING-TOP: 3pt"><span style="font-weight:bold">From: </span> KICTAnet ICT Policy Discussions <<a href="mailto:kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke">kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke</a>><br><span style="font-weight:bold">Reply-To: </span> Mwendwa Kivuva <<a href="mailto:Kivuva@transworldafrica.com">Kivuva@transworldafrica.com</a>>, KICTAnet ICT Policy Discussions <<a href="mailto:kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke">kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke</a>><br><span style="font-weight:bold">Date: </span> Fri, 25 Jul 2014 04:05:31 -0400<br><span style="font-weight:bold">To: </span> Cio_Magazine Hare <<a href="mailto:harry@africanedevelopment.org">harry@africanedevelopment.org</a>><br><span style="font-weight:bold">Subject: </span> [kictanet] Stung by cyber attacks, State resolves to host websites locally<br></div><div><br></div><div dir="ltr">All State-owned websites will be hosted locally in order to curb rising cases of cyber security attacks.<br><br>This was a key resolution at a crisis meeting held on Thursday between top security officials and the Ministry of ICT.<br><br>Held at Communication Authority of Kenya (CAK), the meeting was called to discuss the safety preparedness of the government to handle cyber attacks.<br><br>It comes just days after hacking of the Kenya Defence Forces’ social media accounts including the official email account of the military spokesperson Emmanuel Chirchir.<br><br>In attendance were ICT principal secretary Joseph Tiampati, representatives of the National Intelligence Service, Kenya Defence Forces, CID, CAK director-general Francis Wangusi and ICT Authority chief executive.<br><br><a href="http://www.nation.co.ke/business/Cyber-Security-Attacks-ICT-Ministry/-/996/2396632/-/g6u9p4z/-/index.html">http://www.nation.co.ke/business/Cyber-Security-Attacks-ICT-Ministry/-/996/2396632/-/g6u9p4z/-/index.html</a><br><br><br clear="all"><div><div dir="ltr">______________________<br>Mwendwa Kivuva, Nairobi, Kenya<br><a href="http://twitter.com/lordmwesh" target="_blank">twitter.com/lordmwesh</a><br><br><div><span style="color: rgb(41, 47, 51); font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22px; white-space: pre-wrap;">"There are some men who lift the age they inhabit, till all men walk on higher ground in that lifetime." - Maxwell Anderson</span><br></div></div></div></div>
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