Vision: Safe and trusted cyberspace for the people of Kenya
threats. Further, cybersecurity awareness of government employees and
the general public is assessed to be low thus increasing susceptibility to
cybersecurity threats.
On the other hand, Kenya increasingly continues to face cybersecurity
threats (see figure 1) leveraging on the above-mentioned challenges.
Nation states and corporate entities have used cyber espionage to gain
access to sensitive/classified data for financial gain, political reasons
and to gain competitive advantage. Further, as ICTs become more
interconnected, systems become susceptible to sabotage through
deliberate and malicious acts that may disrupt normal processes and
functions or destroy/damage equipment and information. Similarly,
Cyber subversion through propaganda, fake news and misinformation
may undermine trust in the government, authority and competence of
leaders thus posing a threat to Kenya’s stability. In addition, terror groups
continue to leverage on ICTs (virtual private networks, internet, global
applications, social media platforms and websites) for recruitment,
radicalization, incitement, financing, training, planning and execution of
attacks. Also, there has been an increase in cyber fraud cases through
banking/finance, sim swaps and online scams such as digital Ponzi
schemes, job scams, fake websites & lotteries, Crypto and Forex Scams,
“Tuma kwa Hii Namba” syndicates among others
Cyber
Warfare
Data
breaches
Cyber
subversion
/activism
Cyber
espionage
Cyber
Threats
and Risks
Cyber
sabotage
Cyber
terrorism
Figure 1: Threats and Actors
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