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STAATSKOERANT, 4 DESEMBER 2015
NATIONAL CYBERSECURITY POLICY FRAMEWORK FOR SOUTH AFRICA
evidence in relation to any crime, or that all law enforcement officers, prosecutors and
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judges are provided at least with basic skills in this respect.
7.
Framework is aligned to these goals
This South African National
and is necessitated to ensure a focussed and an all-embracing safety and security
response in respect of the Cybersecurity environment and establishes and addresses
the following:
a)
The development and implementation of a Government led, coherent and
integrated Cybersecurity approach to address Cybersecurity threats;
b)
Establishing a dedicated
policy, strategy and decision making body to be
known as the JCPS
to identify and
prioritise areas of intervention and focussed attention regarding Cybersecurity
related threats.
The Cybersecurity Response Committee will be chaired by
a
the State Security Agency (SSA) and will be
situated at the SSA
c)
The capability to
achievement
(including
of
the
effectively
common
coordinate departmental
Cybersecurity
planning,
response
safety
and
coordination
resources in the
security
and
objectives
monitoring
and
evaluation);
d)
Fighting
cybercrime
approaches
and
effectively
planning
and
through
the
the
creation
promotion
of
of
required
coordinated
staffing
and
infrastructure;
e)
Coordination of the promotion of Cybersecurity measures by all role players
(State, public, private sector, and civil society and special interest groups) in
relation to Cybersecurity threats, through interaction with and in conjunction
with the
Hub (to be established within the Department of
Telecommunications and Postal Services);
f)
Strengthening of intelligence collection, investigation, prosecution and judicial
processes,
in respect
of preventing and addressing cybercrime, cyber
terrorism and cyber warfare;
g)
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Ensuring of the protection of national critical information infrastructure;
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p
Cyoercrome Strategies
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