Joseph Cudjoe, the minister of public enterprises, has mandated that all state-critical private sector and government organisations create cybersecurity strategies.
Such cybersecurity rules must be based on the government's 2021-launched Protection of Critical Information Infrastructure Directive.
According to Section 35 of the Cybersecurity Act of 2020 (Act 1038), the instruction is valid.
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As part of his planned visit to 175 state-owned businesses around the nation, the minister made a working visit to the Cyber Security Authority (CSA) to meet with the management and personnel and become familiar with the authority's activities.
Given the present trend towards the digitalization of all economic sectors, the minister said that the growing number of cyberattacks on nations and essential infrastructure throughout the world made the CSA's mandate the most important institution of the state.
He said that the CSA was given the necessary authority to assist and protect the nation from the threats connected to all digitalized economies.
Commenting on the CSA's ongoing regulatory process, the Minister promised to work with the State Interests and Governance Authority (SIGA) to make sure that, after the authority's September 30, 2023 deadline, only licenced and accredited cybersecurity service providers and professionals were permitted to provide cybersecurity services for public sector institutions in the nation.
He emphasised that it was everyone's duty to secure the nation's vital information infrastructure against cyberattacks.
Mr. Cudjoe was ecstatic about the amount of cooperation the nation was experiencing because of a memorandum of understanding the CSA had signed with other African nations like Rwanda and Mozambique.
That, he said, put the nation on the radar of the continent, confirming that the action fit into the wider African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA)'s goal of fostering the growth of the cybersecurity sector by uniting the African nations.
Mr. Cudjoe reiterated the government's commitment to making sure the Authority was well-resourced to fulfil its duty as a revenue-protection agency rather than a revenue-generating agency.
He emphasised that system improvement and CSA personnel capacity training must be ongoing processes since hackers' methods are always changing.
Ursula Owusu-Ekuful, minister of communications and digitalization, was praised by Mr. Cudjoe for her inspiring leadership, which he claimed was evident in the enormous strides the Authority has made.
In order to overcome any obstacles to fulfilling the authority's purpose, he stressed the significance of operationalizing the cybersecurity fund in accordance with Section 29 of the Cybersecurity Act 2020 (Act 1038).
Sam Aning, the ministry's policy advisor, Mr. Richard Bosompem Ababio, Nanna Akua Sarpoma Nimako Boateng, and other staff members from the ministry of public enterprises were with the minister.
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