Kenya is fast-tracking the enactment of legislation to protect the country from cyber attacks, a senior government official\u00a0 said\u00a0 last Tuesday.
\nCabinet Secretary, Ministry of Information, Communications and Technology (ICT), Joe Mucheru, made the statement in Nairobi during the Thought Leadership Forum on Cybersecurity.
\nHe said that cabinet had already approved and forwarded to Parliament for debate the Computer and Cyber Crimes Bill that seeks to increase penalties for cybercrime and related corporate espionage.
\n\u201cOnce enacted, the new law will protect the confidentiality, integrity and availability of computer systems, programmes and data and prevent the unlawful use of computer systems.
\n\u201c Others are facilitating investigation and prosecution of cybercrimes; and facilitate international co-operation against cybercrime,\u201d Mucheru said.
\nHe said that the high-level leadership event is expected to deliberate on ways to enhance cyber security for organisations in the financial services sector.
\nThe forum is being organized in the wake of last week\u2019s unprecedented global cyber attack that affected hundreds of thousands of computers.
\nMucheru said that Kenya had so far reported one case of cyber attack but the institution affected has since restored their computer systems.
\nHe said that the government is alert and keenly following new developments with a view to ensuring that cyber attack does not spread to Kenya\u2019s other cyberspace users.
\n\u201cWe have heightened our cyber monitoring and surveillance mechanisms to prevent and eliminate any remote possibility of further attacks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Kenya is fast-tracking the enactment of legislation to protect the country from cyber attacks, a senior government official\u00a0 said\u00a0 last Tuesday. Cabinet Secretary, Ministry of Information, Communications and Technology (ICT), Joe Mucheru, made the statement in Nairobi during the Thought Leadership Forum on Cybersecurity. He said that cabinet had already approved and forwarded to Parliament […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[67],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-152228","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-icttelecom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetidenewsonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152228","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetidenewsonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetidenewsonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetidenewsonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetidenewsonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=152228"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetidenewsonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152228\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetidenewsonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=152228"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetidenewsonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=152228"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetidenewsonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=152228"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}