As the continent’s GDP reached $3.3-trillion in the past few years, so the cost of cybercrime climbed to $3.5bn, with Nigeria, Kenya, and SA recording the largest losses.
Cybercrime is estimated to cost Kenya's economy some $300 million a year and the situation is running out of hand that the Kenya Government has asked for help from the FBI
to train their Kenyan counterparts from the Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI). Financial institutions, businesses, and public agencies are the main targets of these attacks.

Worse still, is the issue of investigation and presenting electronic evidence in a court of law. Electronic evidence is generally fragile and can easily lose its value not collected, preserved, and guarded in a proper and timely manner. Maintaining the integrity of computer-generated evidence is key in any court case involving electronic evidence. Integrity is the property of digital data not to have been altered in an unauthorized manner since the time they were created, transmitted, or stored by an authorized source. Proper procedures need to be followed to obtain evidence from a defendant’s computer in a manner that is legally admissible in a court of law.

AWARENESS AND EDUCATION ARE KEY

Regards

Lawrence Dinga, CISSP

+254 721 22 324

 

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