Hacking is a malicious practice that comes to no good involved parties. At best, you can only hope that a hacker is some guy just trying to prove his expertise rather than one trying access and destroy your data.
The E-government team headed by Katherine Gitao, reported to have shut down the affected websites as they worked out the problem. They however downplayed the problem as small by deciding not to involve the Kenya Computer Incident Response team (KE-CIRT) that was established by the Communications Commission of Kenya (CCK) to coordinate response to cyber security incidences nationally.
Government systems continue to be riddled with insecurity problems even as the government hires the best consultants in the industry. A sign of weakness in making investment decisions maybe but point is that each hacking incident continues to demand better security measures for the sole fact of protecting state data and information.
Flow information is important to Kenya’s economy as internet users continue to grow by the day. Most government websites and platforms are built upon open source systems such as Joomla while most of the data is stored with foreign hosting facilities. To change this, the government needs to relocate its websites to local servers that can be easily protected and monitored by the recently formed cyber-unit.
