Thursday, July 30, 2015

Experts meet in Nairobi over cybersecurity








A file picture shows of Bitange Ndemo (left), Esther Murugi and Kencall CEO, Nicholas Nesbitt at the launch of 109 Famine Relief  Help Line for effective communication to support the affected Kenyans at Kencall head office Nairobi on February 22, 2011 PHOTO | ANTHONY OMUYA | FILE
Bitange Ndemo (left) with Esther Murugi and then KenCall CEO Nicholas Nesbitt. Mr Ndemo is one of the key speakers at the Friday event on cybersecurity. FILE PHOTO | ANTHONY OMUYA | 
By MOSES OMUSOLO
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The Africahackon conference on cybersecurity is set to kick off Friday morning at one of Nairobi's most vibrant startup incubation labs, IHub.
Facilitated by experts in the cybersecurity domain, the platform brings together people from across the board to gain specialized insights on how to tackle the global cybersecurity challenge traceable to the adoption of the Internet for running the economy.
Africahackon is a brainchild of Euclid Consultancy, a local company specializing in offering cyber security defensive and offensive services in the whole of East Africa.
Being the second since its launch last year, the one day event also aims to motivate and challenge the young talented minds to take up careers in ICT.
Expected to speak at the function will be Professor Bitange Ndemo, a business lecturer at the University of Nairobi and former Permanent Secretary Ministry for  Information and Communication, as well as Anthony Gachanja from Safaricom.

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