Rising Cybercrime Pushes African Governments to Take Action

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http://www.csoonline.com/article/696806/rising-cybercrime-pushes-african-governments-to-take-action

By Rebecca Wanjiku
CSO
December 19, 2011

In reaction to rising cybercrime incidents in both public and private 
sectors, some African governments have set up incident reporting and 
early warning bodies with the support of AfriNIC (Africa Network 
Information Center).

South Africa, Kenya, Morocco, Ivory Coast and Tunisia have set up 
Computer Emergency Response Teams (CERT) that will work with information 
security professionals to report vulnerabilities and detect DDoS 
(distributed denial-of-service) attacks. The move is coordinated by 
AfricaCERT, supported by AfriNIC.

"Our main goal originally was to raise awarenessof cybersecurity issues 
and set some framework with the support of the Internettechnical 
community. We had two workshops with law enforcement agencies on IP 
forensics and how law and technology should bebrought tightly together 
to address some of our challenges," said Adiel Akplogan, AfriNIC CEO.

AfriNIC has been holding meetings solely for government agencies 
involved in ICT regulation, to make them find ways to work together with 
information security experts to tackle rising cases of cybercrime. 
AfricaCERT is currently collecting data on cybercrime because there is 
insufficient research in the region.

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