GHANA RECORDED OVER ONE HUNDRED THOUSAND CYBERCRIME CASES IN 2019

Story by Michael Kenetey


GHANA RECORDED OVER ONE HUNDRED THOUSAND  CYBERCRIME CASES IN 2019.

Dr. Albert Antwi-Boasiako, National Cybersecurity Advisor.


Ghana has so far recorded a total of 11 thousand, 500 and 50 cases of cybercrimes since launching its Cybercrime Incident Reporting Points of Contact (PoC) in October 2019. 

According to the National Cybersecurity Advisor, Dr. Albert Antwi-Boasiako, said this has been achieved as a result of the enhancement of the work of the National Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT) with that of the PoC.


 The PoC was launched in October 2019 by the Minister for Communications, Ursula Owusu-Ekuful to facilitate the reporting of cybercrime and cybersecurity incidents by the public. 

Speaking at the formal opening of the 2020 National Cyber Security awareness month and the launch of the Child Online Protection (COP) Portal in Accra, Dr Antwi-Boasiako, said the Points of Contact are especially crucial as it will augment the Internet Watch Foundation (IWF) Reporting Portal. 

He pointed out that the CERT of the National Cybersecurity Centre (NCSC) has also produced a number of advisories, incident alerts and vulnerability notes to both the public and allied agencies of CERTs, including the National Communications Authority’s Computer Emergency Response Team (NCA-CERT), for the telecommunications sector, and the Security Operations Centre at the Bank of Ghana (BOG-SOC), for the financial sector; which were established in 2018. 

This, Dr Antwi-Bosiako noted, has further improved the country’s incident response capabilities. According to him, the country’s cyber space is becoming safer as result of the various awareness creation activities that the Ministry of Communications and the NCSC has created. 

He was hopeful that the National Cyber Security Awareness Month will help establish and strengthen people’s knowledge in cybersecurity.

Source : Graphiconline

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