The African workforce needs to hone their skills in key areas such as information security awareness, secure programming and coding, web security development and critical infrastructure risk management.
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Solutions to Solving Africa’s Digital Divide Must Include Satellite
ANALYSIS featured on AllAfrica.com 3 June 2019 By Ambassador Omar Arouna The digital divide in Africa is real: Three-quarters of the people on the continent do not have sufficient access to the internet - or have no access at all. This has an impact on everyone and in...
Challenges of the fight against cybercrime in Africa
Ambassador Omar Arouna Managing Director of US-Africa Cybersecurity Group (USAFCG) discussed challenges and the impact of cybercrime in Africa on Africa 24 with Corinne Kamdem. AFRICA24: The first global news channel for Africa. Africa news for the world, world news...
Cyber threat in Africa and its impact on the United States
Ambassador Omar Arouna Managing Director of the US-Africa Cybersecurity Group is on Voice of America Plugged in with Greta Van Susteren talking about Cybersecurity, cyberwarfare, cyberattacks.
Building resilient financial, energy, public and private sectors in Africa to prepare for and mitigate cyber threats
Cybersecurity has quickly evolved to organizational challenges that require executive leadership to work with IT professionals and organizations to manage critical infrastructure risks, and build capacity for a resilient “whole of society” workforce part of the financial, energy, public and private sectors, and implement security policies and strategies.
Adopting the best cybersecurity practices and training
Cyber Hygiene e-Learning Course
We have partnered with the leader in Cyber Hygiene training, CYBEXER Technologies, to deliver a state of the art interactive, engaging and effective tool consisting of a training module and two separate test modules to address human risk behaviour in cyberspace.
Cybersecurity Program for the Prevention and Fight against Cybercrime
Strengthening the cybersecurity management capacity of African government agencies. The objective is to establish an integrated, effective and modern national/regional system for the prevention and fight against cybercrime.