Pictures: National Cybersecurity Awarenes Month enters13th day

The ongoing National Cybersecurity Awarenes campaign entered it’s 13th day on Tuesday with expert discussion on Mobile Money (MOMO) fraud.

The hybrid event being organised by the Ministry of Communications, through the National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) has so far dealt with various topics bothering the country’s cyber space.

Launched on the 1st of October, this year’s National Cybersecurity Awareness Month marks the 4th of edition for which Government through the various agencies is making efforts to ensure a secured digital ecosystem.

The program involves thought-leadership sessions, panel discussions, workshops and media engagements aimed at intensifying capacity building and awareness creation efforts on cybercrime and cybersecurity issues among Ghanaians.

Tuesday’s Momo Fraud discussion became one of the major topics as MOMO scamming keeps rising.

This year’s event  has weekly high-level events; It had already seen the launched of the National Cyber Security Awareness Month and Child Online Protection Reporting Portal, Forum on Impact of COVID-19 on Ghana’s Digitalization Agenda, Cybersecurity Forum with Industry Players and the other activities covering the four pillars of the Safer Digital Ghana campaign (Children, the Public, Businesses and Government).

The event has attracted collaboration with Ghana’s cybersecurity partners, including the Council of Europe, UNICEF, Security Governance Initiative (SGI) of the US Government and the Freedom Online Coalition (FOC) among others.