Discussion: Shaping Kenya’s Cybersecurity Ecosystem

On Thu, 15 Aug 2024, 20:50 Benson Muite via KICTANet, <
[email protected]> wrote:

> On 15/08/2024 12.54, Adam Lane via KICTANet wrote:
> > Hi David
> >
> > In my engagements with policy makers I emphasize the need for the
> > government to intentionally identify relevant cybersecurity standards
> > (either international, local or international ones that are localized)
> > and then implement them within government and encourage the rest of the
> > industry in the country to also adopt and implement. These standards are
> > a good benchmark to define “secure” (though one must never accept
> > reaching a standard as the end goal and not get complacent) and can be
> > specific to certain areas (such as cloud, telcom networks, software etc)
> > or be about certain processes and can be tested and certified against.
> > This can grow the cybersecurity ecosystem (labs, certifiers, standards
> > consultants etc) and support talent training and development as well.
> >
> >
> >
> > Such standards may not need to be legally required necessarily, but this
> > would be a discussion worth having.
>
> Probably more effort is required in keeping upto date with international
> standards and perhaps influencing their development. As an example,
> many of the laws are available as pdf only downloads from kenyalaw.org.
> County legislation is more difficult to obtain. Standards such as Akoma
> Ntoso [1] would make searching legislative documents much easier, and in
> particular improve hyperlinks in web versions. This would aid people
> doing dissemination work to be more effective.
>
>
> 1) en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Akoma_Ntoso
> >
> >
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