Re: Rising Cybercrime Pushes African Governments to Take Action

Board Member of AfriNIC (Southern African representative) and I attend
all these AfriNIC meetings...
Can I help?

On Tue, 2011-12-20 at 10:59 +0200, Simon Taplin wrote:
> Anybody here have much to do with this?
> 
> Simon
> 
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> From: InfoSec News <[email protected]>
> Date: Tue, 20 Dec 2011 01:35:22 -0600 (CST)
> Subject: [ISN] 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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