The Uganda Communication Commission has now set up a digital forensics lab that will offer consumers a wide rage of IT security services.
The setting up of this lab follows the creation of a Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT) in June 2013 to help fight cyber crime in the country.
“We would like to notify you that the CERT has completed the set up of a digital forensics lab,” said an unsigned notification from the CERT but distributed to all major ICT associations and network in the country.
“The lab is open and freely accessible to all consumers of the services of the communications sector,” the notice added and listed the services to be offered as including: Mobile device forensics – (mobile phones and tablets) which includes data recovery and investigations, Computer forensics (laptops, computers and other digital computing devices) which includes data recovery and investigations, Website vulnerability assessment and Network vulnerability assessment.
Uganda’s ICT Minister John Nasasira told the Global Conference on Cyberspace last week at the Hague that in Uganda, sector specific CERTs are being established in both public and private institutions. He said that a communications sector CERT is already operational and that government had also established Laws to deal with cybercrime.
“These Laws address Computer Misuse, Electronic Transactions, Electronic Signatures and Data Protection and Privacy, among others,” Nasasira said.
He also said his government was working with private sector through Public-Private Partnerships to strengthen Uganda’s Cyber-security capacity and to deal better with cyber threats by sharing information.
