- The country has only 1,700 certified cybercrime professionals, too few to secure the Kenyan population of close to 50 million against cyber-attacks on the rise.
- Some 10.2 million threats were detected in the last three months of 2018, over 2,200 times the 4,589 recorded in the same period the previous year.
- President Uhuru Kenyatta last week launched the country’s Digital Economy Blueprint at the Transform Africa Summit in Kigali, Rwanda, the first in Africa.
Kenya has too few cybercrime professionals despite the country being one of the most advanced countries in information and communication technology (ICT) on the continent.
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