NAIROBI, KENYA: The increasing use of cyberspace and digital applications in the country and globally should be a strong enough reason to encourage individuals, investors and governments to make cybersecurity a top priority.
As one might expect, effective infrastructural cybersecurity measures are important if a successful approach will be implemented to tame the constantly evolving threat.
In this context, it is important to emphasise that this is where enterprise security comes into practice. Simply put, enterprise security involves understanding, where and how information and data is managed both within and outside the enterprise boundary.
Secondly, it encompasses how information technology supports safe business practices, the security processes and control framework, in the context of the business including how facilities and access control support the logical security model.
In fact, enterprise security focuses on providing a risk-based approach to define priorities and identify exposure to potentially malicious activities. It is potentially similar to a management process used to effectively manage security risks, both proactively and reactively, across an…
