The Kenya Bureau of Standards has approved 40 new standards to enhance information and cyber security and safeguard consumer privacy. He said the new guidelines provide a robust system to fight against cyber security threats, breach of privacy and other information security measures to ensure that Confidentiality, Integrity and Authenticity (CIA) of information is maintained during the creation, usage, storage and transfer of information. Globally, 40 per cent of SMEs that experience data breach due to cyber security attacks are likely to close within a year. Kenya reported more than 56 million cyber threats for the quarter ended December 2020, according to latest Communication Authority (CA) data. This is a 59 per cent increase from 35.2 million threats detected in the previous quarter.

Source: The Star May 24, 2021 07:52 UTC