The Kenya Bureau of Standards (KEBS) has called for strengthening of security systems across the public and private sectors to secure the country against cyber-attacks.
KEBS Board Chairman Dr Chris Wamalwa said the country was facing a growing scale and complexity of cyber threats targeting critical national infrastructure, corporates and financial institutions.
This, he said has put state and corporate entities under constant pressure to defend their digital assets, employee data, customer records, financial information and trade secrets calling for collaborative efforts to scale up investments in security infrastructure. "Threat intelligence sharing, regional cooperation, and adoption of cutting-edge tools such as AI-powered security monitoring and next-generation firewalls must become our norm, not our ambition," he said.
Speaking in Kisumu during the 5th Annual Security Management Conference, Wamalwa said KEBS was on the forefront in securing Kenya's digital economy and cyber space through standardization, metrology, and conformity assessment.
