Panel: Tips and Tricks to Run a CSIRT in Low-income and Fragile Contexts
summary
Multiple countries show concrete wins: Mozambique secures a cybersecurity and cybercrime law and creates a national cyber fund in law, Namibia runs incident tracking with open‑source feeds like Shadowserver and RTI while avoiding dollar‑priced TI, Somalia stages CSIRT growth (phase 1 → forensics lab), Rwanda builds a SOC plus a backup site, and Togo forms a public‑private company (Cyber Defense Africa) that wins a €10M loan, generates €6M/year revenue and raises national ITU maturity from 2019 to 2024.
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chapters (9)
- 0:00CSIRT in fragile contexts
- 3:37Mozambique’s cyber resilience
- 8:10Namibia’s budget challenges
- 11:01Togo’s public-private model
- 16:01Cyber diplomacy collaboration
- 18:10World Bank CSIRT insights
- 23:29Advice for low-income CSIRTs
- 32:22CSIRT impact in Togo
- 35:12Q&A
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