The Government shall measure its success in reducing cybercrime by assessing progress towards
the following outcomes:
we have a greater disruptive effect on cyber criminals attacking the Sierra Leone, with
higher numbers of arrests and convictions, and larger numbers of criminal networks
dismantled as a result of law enforcement intervention;
there is improved law enforcement capability, including greater capacity and skills of
dedicated specialists and mainstream officers and enhanced law enforcement capability
amongst overseas partners;
there is improved effectiveness and increased scale of early intervention measures
dissuades and reforms offenders; and
There are fewer low-level cyber offences as a result of cybercriminal services being
harder to access and less effective.
4.2.3 COUNTERING HOSTILE FOREIGN ACTORS
We need to coordinate the full range of government capabilities to counter the threat posed by
hostile foreign actors that increasingly threaten our political, economic and military security.
Working with international partners will be crucial to our success, and greater emphasis will be
placed on engaging them and working with them to counter the threat. Much of this action will
not be in the public domain. Our investment in sovereign capabilities and partnerships with
industry and the private sector will continue to underpin our ability to detect, observe and
identify this constantly evolving activity against us.
To reduce the cyber threat from hostile foreign actors, we will:
reinforce the application of international law in cyberspace in addition to promoting the
agreement of voluntary, non-binding norms of responsible state behavior and the
development and implementation of confidence building measures;
work with international partners, particularly through collective defense, cooperative
security, and enhanced deterrence that our membership of ECOWAS affords;
identify both the unique and generic aspects of our adversaries’ cyber activity;
Generate and explore all available options for deterring and countering this threat,
drawing on the full range of government capabilities. We will take full account of other