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According to data from Innovari Africa,
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Ghana is increasingly becoming a hot
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spot for cyber crime in the sub region.
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The company said in 2024 alone, over
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4,000 cyber attacks have been targeted
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at different businesses across Ghana.
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vectors are local. Okay?
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uh we recorded what 4,7
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53 DDoS attacks in Ghana. DDoS is denial
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of service. Okay. It's one of the most
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easiest form of attacks. Okay.
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General manager for innovar in charge of
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English-speaking countries has cautioned
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individuals and entities to take
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precaution against such threats.
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Okay. So looking at the thread landscape
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and the volume of attack that Ghana as a
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country and its institutions are facing
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is really really very alarming. There's
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an increase in ransomware attack.
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There's an increase in fishing attack.
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So every hands has to be on deck. The
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public and the private sector, you know,
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the public sector supporting with the
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fund, the private sector supporting with
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the expertise, all hand has to be on
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deck to tackle this and help reduce that
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volume of attack and provide a
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mitigation for any form of attack to the
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country. And when it when it when it
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comes to uh the people, the people needs
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to be educated. Education is very
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important. Security awareness training
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simulations are very important.
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Security consultant Richard Kwami
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Isummeni has called on the National
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Cyber Security Authority to fully
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implement measures to address the
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Everything is moving into a digital
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world, right? And it becomes so
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important that we understand, you know,
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what cyber security is all about. I
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mean, now we have smart homes, smart
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watches, everything is smart, right?
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Everything is going to the internet. How
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do you protect and making sure that all
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these things are protected? One of the
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things we can do is to more awareness
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training create awareness. Let's get
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people to know if we partner with the
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government and we start from that early
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ages. Right? By the time they will go to
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university or secondary school, they
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already understand what codings, they
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already understand what cyber security
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is all that. So I think these forums we
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have to be doing it more right to
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improve the digital illiteracy just to
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bridge the gap okay because if we sit
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there and we leave it nothing get done.
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As Ghana continues to embrace digital
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technologies experts warned that the
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threat of cyber crime is likely to grow.
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Citizens, businesses, and government
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institutions must work together to
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safeguard sensitive information and
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build a more secure digital environment
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for the country. And that's report read
