NCSA is responsible for:

• Advising the President and other public and private institutions on strategies to defend the coutnry’s interests in cyberspace;
• Conducting cyber intelligence on any national security threat in cyberspace and provide information from such intelligence ot the relevant organs;
• Establishing guidelines on the basis of national, regional and international ICT security principles;
• Coordinating and implementing the national ICT security policy and strategy;
• Developing strategies to secure all electronic operations;
• Monitoring all national ICT security programs;
• Preventing cyber-attacks in order to protect ICT infrastructure in general and critical information infrastructure in particular;
• Establishing and promoting national cyber security education programs, foster research and develop industry in the ICT field;
• Creating awareness about cyber security among the Rwandan society;
• Collaborating with other public and private institutions and other information technology-related bodies to ensure national ICT security;
• Cooperating and collaborating with other regional and international organs in charge of cyber security;
• Providing national defence and security organs with the necessary support to attain their responsibilities in relation to cyberspace;
• Performing other duties as may be assigned by the President of the Republic.