Angolan minister of Finance Vera Daves de Sousa defended Wednesday in Luanda the commitment to international cooperation to monitor CyberSecurity issues in the country.

The minister, who was speaking at the 1st cybersecurity Forum, sponsored by the Ministry of Telecommunications, Information Technology and Social Communication (MINTICS), underlined that the process of international cooperation is important because cyber attacks involve transnational movements.

Vera Daves de Sousa assured that the finance sector has been working towards “a clear identification of the country’s risks and vulnerabilities and then building a strategy that takes care of these weaknesses”.

In turn, the minister of Energy and Water, João Baptista Borges, said that the sector’s concern is about the emergence of attacks on the system, which could affect the normal functioning and replacement of the system.

As example, he said, a company dedicated to the distribution, sale of water and electricity, if it is deprived of customer data, naturally risks to report large losses.

Combat cybercrime

The Government intends to create the National Cyber-Security Strategy in order to outline the approach of policies that guarantee a secure and resilient cyberspace.

Even so, it will establish the Angolan Executive’s vision for the five-year period 2022/2027, also serving to identify and establish Cybersecurity actions.

The idea is to make Angola a safer country with a society that is aware of Cyber-Security.

The strategy is a public policy instrument that aims to address, in an integrated and systematic way, the issue of cyberspace security, with measurable and periodical objectives.

Source: Angola Press News Agency (APNA)