Country
Tanzania

Source
Paper by Global Scientific Journals

Title
Cyber Security Institutional Framework in Tanzania: a policy Analysis by H. Semboja, B. Silla and J Musuguri

About
Dated June 2016| The paper analysed the cyber security institutional framework in Tanzania. Both qualitative and quantitative data and information were analysed to assess the performance of the institutions relative to Global Cyber security Index (GCI 2015) designed from the ITU Global Cyber security Agenda (GCA).

Key findings
The paper found that Tanzania is less prepared in terms of strategies for prevention, detection, response and crisis management of cyber attacks. Tanzania has complex primary problems, constraints and challenges affecting performances of cyber security systems. These include lack of explicit national cyber security policy; many legally independent institutions with different laws, regulations and interests, top leadership system is not well defined, lack of formal institutional linkage; inadequate resources in each institution; lack of institutional dynamism. The study recommends that there is a need of national cyber security policy, laws and institution framework. To support the desired system immediately the government has to formulate implementation strategy of the policy as well as the institutions and regulations to smooth performance and interaction among the current cyber security systems

Website
http://www.globalscientificjournal.com/researchpaper/CYBER-SECURITY-INSTITUTIONAL-FRAMEWORK-IN-TANZANIA-A-POLICY-ANALYSIS.pdf