A section of CSA board undertaking oath
An 11-member governing board of the Cyber Security Authority (CSA) has been inaugurated to oversee the implementation of policies and strategic direction of the Authority.
The board is also mandated to manage and disburse the Cybersecurity Fund in accordance with section 30 of the Act; ensure the efficient and effective performance of the functions as well as oversight responsibility for the Authority.
Inaugurating the governing board last Friday, the Minister of Communications and Digitsation, Ursula Owusu-Ekuful, disclosed that Ghana’s digitisation efforts cannot be sustained without cybersecurity.
According to her, Cyber-attacks could undermine the government’s gains in digitalisation, social and economic well-being as well as the activities and operations of the national security.
Mrs Owusu-Ekuful further said that the progress made in the last five years in cybersecurity development had been remarkable, placing Ghana 3rd on the African continent, and 43rd globally in the latest Global Cybersecurity Index (GCI) of the International Telecommunication Union (ITU).
Intervention
She enumerated interventions of the government in the sector to include the ratification of the Budapest and Malabo Conventions and the launch of the Safer Digital Ghana Campaign, and the passage of the Cybersecurity Act, 2020.
Other interventions are the revision of the National Cybersecurity Policy and Strategy, and the development of the National Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT) ecosystem.
“Securing sustainable funding is crucial to the implementation of the Cybersecurity Act 1038 and hence the Board has an immediate and a critical mandate to operationalise Section 29 of the Cybersecurity Act, 2020,” she said.
The sector Minister admonished the management of the Cyber Security Authority (CSA) to focus on the implementation of the relevant regulatory measures, including the protection of Ghana’s Critical Information Infrastructure, which they had already started, and work closely with the Joint Cybersecurity Committee (JCC), which will soon be inaugurated, and other non-governmental actors in Ghana’s cybersecurity development.
The Minister chairs the board with Albert Kan Dapaah, National Security Minister; Ambrose Dery, Minister of Interior; and Dominic Nitiwul, Minister of Defence.
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