Dear Listers, Thank you for these moving inputs. On today's important topic how to enhance Cybersecurity, i will zero in on the awareness of the end user. Most of the time the end user may not know that they are a subject of an attack and that boils down to the need for basic knowledge sharing on what constitutes a cyber attack and how to secure your own system from viruses, malware and lately ransomware among other attacks. I believe many users need a constant reminder to update their system protections and also know what and where not to click, this could help a lot. On the issue of privacy, i did a paper sometimes back on social media and privacy, and from my small survey, i discovered not many users of these platforms had read or knew about what their rights as regards privacy, personal data among other key implements. Therefore again I call for constant efforts for awareness. Kind regards Gideon Rop On Thu, Jun 30, 2016 at 1:07 PM, <kictanet-request@lists.kictanet.or.ke> wrote:

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Hi Barrack

A great comment has been posted on the Jadii Platform

June Tessy - a day ago 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

On Thu, Jun 30, 2016 at 7:29 AM, Barrack Otieno via kictanet < kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke> wrote:

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Listers,

Many thanks to those who contribued to day 6 discussions. The thread is still open, we also encourage listers to edit the policy directly on the Jadili platform (http://jadili.ictpolicy.org/docs/kenya-ict-policy).

Today we focus on the following areas:

*Online Citizen Safety, *Child Protection *Privacy issues *Security business transactions (Info-Security) *Security & Reliability of Critical ICT infrastructure

The Background:

The more we automate and rely on digital services, the more vulnerable we become as a society to cybercrime and other threats facing the digital society.

The regulator has a Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT), the industry (TESPOK) also has a CERT, the Department of Criminal Investigation & National Intelligence also have CERT. What is not clear is whether there is a framework to have these teams working together and their capacity to counter a full-blown cyber attack against our digital national assets.

Additionally, the tension between citizen privacy and national security, citizen privacy and business (profit) concerns remain perhaps due to lack of Data Protection, eTransaction and other laws. Finally, special protection for vulnerable groups (children) going online is non-existent.

What needs to be done around these issues?

Kindly submit your views.

Best Regards

-- Barrack O. Otieno +254721325277 +254733206359 Skype: barrack.otieno PGP ID: 0x2611D86A

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