Minister for Communications and Digitalisation, Ursula Owusu has inaugurated the Joint Cybersecurity Committee (JCC) to spearhead cyber security activities in order to achieve a secured and resilient digital economy.
In 2017, due to the cross sectoral nature of cybersecurity, the Ministry of Communications and Digitalisation thought it wise to have a Technical Working Group(TWG) to facilitate prompt responses and resolution of incidents which impact on the security of digital applications, services and infrastructure as we increasingly digitise our operations across all socio economic activities.
It was set up to provide institutional collaboration at the highest level to develop our cyber security.
Due to the hard work of the TWG, the Cyber security Advisor and the National Cyber Security Centre, under the direction of the Ministry of Communications, we made significant progress in cyber security development, placing Ghana 3rd on the African continent and 43rd globally in the latest Global Cyber security Index of the International Telecommunication Union with a score of 86.69% in 2020.
This is as compared to a score of 32.6% in 2017 when we started putting the building blocks for our cyber security development in place.
The JCC is established pursuant to section 13 of the Cyber security Act, 2020 (Act 1038) to collaborate with the Cyber Security Authority and the sectors or institutions represented on the Committee for the implementation of relevant cybersecurity measures.
The President appoints the members of the Joint Cybersecurity Committee in consultation with the Authority as provided in Section 13(4) of Act 1038.
The minister took the opportunity to congratulate all members of the JCC for your appointment as the pioneer members of the Committee and urged you to familiarise yourselves with your enabling legislation.
“Your appointment and the inauguration of the JCC is an important milestone in Ghana’s Cyber security development and we are hopeful that through your work, we will be able to address critical cyber security issues affecting the country, including the protection of critical information infrastructure, effective criminal justice response to cyber crimes, awareness creation among public sector officials, public-private sector collaboration and relevant international cooperation to make Ghana a truly cyber secured nation” she stated.
Source: Mybrytnewsroom.com/Kwabena Nyarko Abronoma
