49BUILDING A CYBER FORTRESS IN AFRICA
Introduction: Uganda’s expanding role in cyberspace
Cyber security, “a body of technologies, processes, and practices designed to protect networks, devices, programs, and data from attack, damage, or unauthorized access” (Lord, July 15 2015), is very important for any country embracing digitization. For a nation to be regarded as a true digital nation, it needs to build up its cyber capacity to manage an array of current threats and to be ready to deal with them. This means developing cyber capacities in the form of “national abilities, processes, resources, institutions and knowledge that would allow” a country ...
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