GHANA has established the country’s historical Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT) to curb cybercrime.
The CERT, globally known as Computer Incident Response Team (CIRT)
and its portal, scheduled for launch on Friday this week, is hailed as a
certain and trusted way of safeguarding the country and its businesses
from cyber wars or attacks.
Sector Minister, Dr Edward Omane-Boamah, will launch the CERT, which
has been developed by the National Information Technology Agency (NITA),
the Ministry of Communications and other agencies.
The Director of Operations at NITA, Eric Akumiah, who disclosed this
to CAJ News in Accra, said by Friday, the Minister of Communications
would launch the CERT portal and a team to coordinate cyber incidences
and assist in resolving future incidences within the public and the
private sectors of the country.
He explained the Ghanaian government was funding the scheme, which is
implemented by the International Multilateral Partnership Against Cyber
Threats (IMPACT), the United Nations-backed cyber security alliance and
partner of the International Telecommunication Union (ITU).
Akumiah, who is also the CERT-GH Ghana Project Technical Point of
Contact, added that the project formed part of a co-operation agreement
between the government and the ITU which was concluded by Ghana’s
Minister of Communications during a forum in Geneva, Switzerland, last
year.
He, however, noted that the coordinating centres of the CERT were yet
to be established but would be hosted temporarily at the Ghana
Multimedia Incubation Centre (GMIC).
Akumiah was hopeful that by the end of October, towards December this
year, the CERT coordinating centres would be moved to the National Data
Centre.
The leader of the ITU delegation, Sagar Mahendram, explained that the
main purpose of the CERT was to defend cyber war, but it also creates
awareness about cybercrime.
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