Statistics from the Communications Authority present that between July to September 2023, Kenya skilled greater than 123 million cyber menace occasions.
Final 12 months, the federal government launched a Nationwide Cybersecurity Technique (2022-2027) that outlines an implementation framework and timeline to handle gaps within the altering our on-line world.
So as to discover a answer and tackle this pertinent situation, and as part of the CyberSecurity consciousness month, Safaricom hosted an trade vast cyber safety summit with a name on companies, authorities and people to spend money on applied sciences that shield delicate info and important methods from cyber threats.
The theme of the occasion was ‘Turning into a Cyber Resilient Organisation’, introduced collectively near 400 Cybersecurity trade leaders and professionals bodily and just about to debate the newest cyber safety tendencies and evolving enterprise networks.
Nicholas Mulila, Chief Company Safety Officer, talked about how extreme the threats are, given the delicate and complicated method by which they’re formulated, “Attackers are always engaged on designing, constructing, and evolving options to bypass or overcome essentially the most superior cybersecurity options. This has created a panorama by which firms face extra important cyber threats than ever earlier than.”
By this initiative Safaricom reinforces their purpose to proceed to offer quite a lot of options that join, shield, allow and remodel enterprise, making certain enterprise continuity even within the face of cyber assaults.
Cynthia Kropac, Chief Enterprise Enterprise Officer, Safaricom PLC says that the corporate has adopted an enhanced cloud answer that’s augmented with cyber safety, and dependable connectivity and cost companies.
Different dignitaries current on the discussion board have been Jackson Makewa, Director Cybersecurity, Division for Data Communications and Colonel James Kimuyu, Director Normal, Nationwide Pc and Cybercrimes.
