CYBERSECURITY MATTERS TO ALL OF US

There has been a very high demand of cybersecurity professionals worldwide. Countries are encouraged to train more people in the field of cybersecurity. In Africa there are several initiatives on capacity building that includes Crash programs, Workshops and in some countries security courses have been introduced to the curriculum.

The United States: In response to a growing national demand for cybersecurity workers, “ROCHESTER INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY" has planned to use a $4 million federal...

A day before "DATA PRIVACY DAY", Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong’s office announced the creation of the Cyber Security Agency of Singapore, which “will provide dedicated and centralised oversight of national cyber security functions.” Given the sinister ways in which cyber threats are evolving, the move is a necessary step for a wired, wealthy nation that has long been the target of cybercrime.

This is a rare radical step towards the fight against cybercrimes in Singapore which came at the...

JOE SULIVAN - CSO FACEBOOKCybersecurity firms have played a significant role to help the fight against cybercrimes. With the help of analysis of the Cyberthreats situation across nations and proposed way forwards to fight cybercrime, they have proven to be the right force to join.
Facebook has seen this and choose to join force with one of the Cybersecurity firm as a sign of getting serious about fighting off online data threats.

 The social network is buying PrivateCore, a cybersecurity firm...

As the Connect to connect summit started on 28th of July 2015, one of the key things addressed was the cybersecurity. From an opening speech by the Ministry of Communication, Science and Technology noted the issue of cyber threats being one of the serious problems of any country if right measures to minimize the risk are implemented.

Added to that, I took part in a Workshop (Panel discussion) discussing the trends of cybersecurity where we agreed that cyber threats have become a top concern...

The fourth workshop in a global series of workshop on Cybercrime and Cybersecurity which was announced "HERE", hosted by the US Government was held in Gaborone recently. The retreat, dubbed the Sub-Saharan African Cybercrime and Cybersecurity workshop attracted mostly security and law agents from almost all the SADC countries who all resolved to have their governments devote more resources to fighting cybercrimes.

Eric Tamrkin, from The Institute for Security Studies said “Given the...

Navy Adm. Michael S. Rogers Cybersecurity threats are a vital issue for the nation, and like the Defense Department, businesses must own the problem to successfully carry out their missions, DOD’s top cybersecurity expert told a forum of businesspeople.

Navy Adm. Michael S. Rogers, commander of U.S. Cyber Command, director of the National Security Agency and chief of the Central Security Service, at Bloomberg Government’s Cybersecurity Summit in Washington, June 3, 2014.

Navy Adm....

No one can fight cybercrimes in isolation – We need to collaborate, I have said this many times when addressing cybersecurity experts and others delegates in every conference or summit I attended. Several countries continue to work on collaborations and we have witnessed major reforms to the entities fighting cybercrimes in the US, Singapore, Saudi Arabia among others.

 In the name of Collaboration, On Friday 30thOctober this year (2015) – The South African government launched the National...

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During the world economic forum in Davos this year, Cybersecurity was one of the "AGENDA". François Hollande emphasized on countries to invest more on cybersecurity. Eugene Kaspersky, chairman and CEO of Kaspersky Lab, also addressed the most pressing issues facing cybersecurity during a panel session.

In the panel discussion – Thomas Hendrik Ilves, President of Estonia; Jean-Paul Laborde, Executive Director of the United Nations Security Council Counter-Terrorism Committee Executive...