Speaker: Hythem El Mir, NACS, Tunisia 
Title:   The CERT-Africa Project

Abstract:
With the continuous growth of ICT dependence of African countries 
and with the enlargement of Internet bandwidth and the increase of online services, 
several new threats has shown up, exposing countries to new technological risk 
with critical impacts on the economy, the culture, the society, ...
Therefore there is a crucial need for each country to develop its 
information security capacities to face these new risks.

In the other side, the fight against cybercrime and cyber threats requires 
a strong partnership between all the stakeholders in the cyberspace. 

In Africa, few countries have started their security project and fulfilled some good steps, 
but some other countries still unable to start their first actions. These courtiers need 
to be assisted and supported, they need to be guided and advised through experience 
and information sharing with others; which is missing at this moment.

In this direction, the CERT-AFRICA idea comes to provide a global framework for 
African countries to enhance regional and international cooperation on information security; 
to assist each other to establish national CSIRT to improve their incident handling 
capabilities; to provide technical support and look for financial resources.

The CERT-AFRICA project aims to enhance experience and information sharing; 
to boost collaboration to address security threats and to handle major incident; 
to promote research and development activities in cyber security in Africa; 
and will develop technical and legal tools to fight cybercrimes.

CERT-AFRICA is the board that will help security experts to share and enhance collaboration 
to address security threat by connecting leading African security expert 
and bringing them around a common project.

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