Monday, September 21, 2009

EAC-CyberSecurity

the EAC countries are in different stages in formulating the relevant laws to ensure cybersecurity, east african internet governance forum -how to reap the benefits in a secure and non-compromised environment and the that confidentiality and privacy laws must be implemented to ensure this,
so far the laws are inadequate to resolve emerging opportunites and challenges posed by the internet - looking at the Ugandan and Kenyan legal frameworks that are in place so far,
most recently the need of cybersecurity is in need due to the increase of cyber crimes - in Tanzania, the TRA Systems in place have proven to be a haven for fraudsters to steal profits - such loopholes in the systems need to be governed and regulated in order to avoid such losses by the government-

source: the east african -sept 21/the citizen

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