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Ghana has adopted a cyber security policy and strategy to increase security of its citizens and the state from cyber attacks. The document is divided into three sections highlighting the common cyber challenges in the country, the existing local and global initiatives to prevent cyber fraud and ways in which laws on cyber crime can be enforced.
The Data Protection Act, 2012 (The Act) [1] is legislation enacted by the Parliament of the Republic of Ghana to protect the privacy and personal data of individuals.It regulates the process personal information is acquired, kept, used or disclosed by data controllers and data processors by requiring compliance with certain data protection principles.
Several Ghanaians and foreigners have also been arrested for crimes relating to cyber fraud. [18] One notable crime is sim box fraud. [19] [20] [21] In 2017 the National Cyber Security Week was held in Ghana to bring stakeholders together to help address issues of cyber security and cyber fraud. [22]
On 12 November 2018 at the Internet Governance Forum (IGF) meeting in Paris, French President Emmanuel Macron launched the Paris Call for Trust and Security in Cyberspace. This high-level declaration presents a framework of common principles for regulating the Internet and fighting back against cyber attacks, hate speech and other cyber threats.
It was designed by Global Cyber Security Capacity Centre (GCSCC) of University of Oxford and first of its kind framework for countries to review their cybersecurity capacity, benchmark it and receive recommendation for improvement. [3] Each dimension is divided into factors and the factors broken down into aspects. [2]
National Cyber Security Centre of Finland Yes France: CERT-FR [35] Yes Germany: CERT-Bund [36] Yes Ghana: NCA-CERT, CERT-GH [37] [38] National Communications Authority Computer Emergency Response Team and National Cyber Security Centre of Ghana. Hong Kong: HKCERT [39] Hong Kong Computer Emergency Response Team Coordination Center. Yes Iceland ...
It allows the presenter of a certificate to bear the resource cost involved in providing Online Certificate Status Protocol (OCSP) responses by appending ("stapling") a time-stamped OCSP response signed by the CA (certificate authority) to the initial TLS handshake, eliminating the need for clients to contact the CA, with the aim of improving ...
Also, revenue from the levy would be used to support entrepreneurship, cyber and digital security; road infrastructure and provide jobs to about 11million people in the country. [ 10 ] [ 11 ] [ 12 ] The Government of Ghana said that the introduction of the levy was due to the rise of the use of digital platforms for transactions because of the ...