<div dir="ltr"><div>Hi Barrack<br><br></div>A great comment has been posted on the Jadii Platform<br><br><div class="">
<span class="">June Tessy</span>
<span class="">- a day ago</span>
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
</div><br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Jun 30, 2016 at 7:29 AM, Barrack Otieno via kictanet <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke" target="_blank">kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Listers,<br>
<br>
Many thanks to those who contribued to day 6 discussions. The thread<br>
is still open, we also encourage listers to edit the policy directly<br>
on the Jadili platform<br>
(<a href="http://jadili.ictpolicy.org/docs/kenya-ict-policy" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">http://jadili.ictpolicy.org/docs/kenya-ict-policy</a>).<br>
<br>
Today we focus on the following areas:<br>
<br>
<br>
*Online Citizen Safety,<br>
*Child Protection<br>
*Privacy issues<br>
*Security business transactions (Info-Security)<br>
*Security & Reliability of Critical ICT infrastructure<br>
<br>
The Background:<br>
<br>
The more we automate and rely on digital services, the more vulnerable<br>
we become as a society to cybercrime and other threats facing the<br>
digital society.<br>
<br>
The regulator has a Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT), the<br>
industry (TESPOK) also has a CERT, the Department of Criminal<br>
Investigation & National Intelligence also have CERT. What is not<br>
clear is whether there is a framework to have these teams working<br>
together and their capacity to counter a full-blown cyber attack<br>
against our digital national assets.<br>
<br>
Additionally, the tension between citizen privacy and national<br>
security, citizen privacy and business (profit) concerns remain<br>
perhaps due to lack of Data Protection, eTransaction and other laws.<br>
Finally, special protection for vulnerable groups (children) going<br>
online is non-existent.<br>
<br>
What needs to be done around these issues?<br>
<br>
Kindly submit your views.<br>
<br>
Best Regards<br>
<br>
--<br>
Barrack O. Otieno<br>
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+254733206359<br>
Skype: barrack.otieno<br>
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