Government strengthens fight against cyber crime – Mozambique

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Government strengthens fight against cyber crime – Mozambique

8:37 CAT | 19 Jun 2018

The government is reinforcing its fight against cyber crime with the launch of a training course for state institution computer network security technicians in Maputo yesterday.

The four-week course, which is funded by the Italian Cooperation Agency, is the second phase of the training, the first having been accomplished via distance learning.

Fifty information and communication technology participants are participating in the course, 20 representing the 10 Provincial Science and Technology directorates’ Higher Education and Professional Technicians and the rest representing the ministries.

“The main goal of the course is to make electronic transactions safer, thus promoting their greater use in the country,”, permanent secretary of the Ministry of Science and Technology, Higher Education and Professional Technician (MCTESTP) Celso Laice explained.

Laice said the course would improve the security of critical infrastructure computer systems by providing trainees with technical knowledge of systems management and protection against cyber attacks.

Laice stressed the importance of using ICTs and the Internet, which offers many opportunities and benefits, but warned that “cyberspace, characterised as it is by lack of borders and ‘face’ and its pervasiveness in private life, increases business’s and the country’s vulnerability to cybercrime”.

Source: Folha de Maputo