A Framework for Cybersecurity Strategy for Developing Countries: Case Study of Afghanistan

Salamzada, Khosraw; Shukur, Zarina; Bakar, Marini Abu

doi:10.17576/apjitm-2015-0401-01

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“…The carious challenges schools face in implementing cybersecurity education include lack of expertise, funding and resources [27]. Teachers lack knowledge and expertise regarding cyberspace.…”

Section: Challenges Of Cyber Security Educationmentioning

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The Importance of Cybersecurity Education in School

Rahman¹,

Sairi²,

Zizi³

et al. 2020

IJIET

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Despite the fact that the Internet has positively impacted people's lives, there are negative issues emerged related to the use of Internet. Cases like cyber-bully, online fraud, racial abuse, pornography and gambling had increased tremendously due to the lack of awareness and self-mechanism among Internet users to protect themselves from being victims to these acts. However, past research revealed that the level of awareness among Internet users is still low or moderate. One of the vital measures to be taken is to cultivate knowledge and awareness among Internet users from their early age, i.e., young children. Young children specifically, need to be educated to operate in a safe manner in cyberspace and to protect themselves in the process. The objective of this systematic review paper is to explore why it is so critical that modern learners are educated about the risks associated with being active in cyberspace and the strategies that stakeholders can use to promote cyber security education in schools. In this paper, few strategies are discussed as how cyber security education can be implemented in schools.

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Section: Challenges Of Cyber Security Educationmentioning

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The Importance of Cybersecurity Education in School

Rahman¹,

Sairi²,

Zizi³

et al. 2020

IJIET

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“…To keep the safety of the country, a solid and high cyber security system is very important to constraint the hacking progress each day. (Salamzada et al, 2015;Hasen, 2019) stated the importance of cyber space for country development, many countries have invested large amount of money for cyber space application show how this matter need to be taken seriously by all country. As discussed above, if the country cybersecurity falls to the hand of these cybercriminals, the country safety is at risk as they could access sensitive information including national top secret and confidential information such as government's administration and the military information (Kallet, 2004).…”

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The UKM Students Perception towards Cyber Security

Rahman¹,

Hamzah²,

Yasin³

et al. 2019

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The world moved to digital era tremendously. Therefore the societies need to aware on the issue related to the cyber security. The purpose of this study was to identify the student perception, knowledge and awareness regarding cyber security. The research found that the student perception, knowledge and awareness were average. Thus, some program, such as awareness seminar, courses should be driven to take in order to highlight the society concern about cyber security.

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“…The constituencies in this model follow the critical sectors in Afghanistan [21], they include financial sectors, government ministries, law enforcement agencies and the Internet Society of Afghanistan.…”

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A Model for Afghanistan’s Cyber Security Incident Response Team

Jalal

Yusof

Shukur

et al. 2018

Int. J. Adv. Sci. Eng. Inf. Technol.

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Persistent cyber threats require effective and efficient mitigation techniques. The cyber security incident response team (CSIRT) is expected to respond to external and internal cyber threats or incidents. Various organizational, national, and international level CSIRTs have been developed for defending and protecting such kinds of threats. Developing countries like Afghanistan have also formed a Computer Emergency Response Team for handling national cyber incidents although it provides limited services to only a few constituencies and depends on funding from foreign donors. Therefore, a new organizational model was proposed to provide guidelines for a specific country, instead of a provision from a constitutional context. Five national CSIRTs were compared to identify their features and characteristics to provide basis for the proposed framework. The study presented the proposed model based on two CSIRT organizational models that incorporated a new funding strategy to achieve a Sustainable National CSIRT for developing countries. Our model combined coordinate and security teams; if consists of constituency's mission, services, resources, organizational framework, and funding strategy. This study employed qualitative method by using document analysis and interview techniques. CSIRT for Afghanistan known as AFCERT was evaluated in terms of structure, services, resources, and funding. AFCERT services level were below the standard of a national CSIRT. Therefore, a more sustainable service need to be provided based on the proposed model components. Findings showed the suitability and potential of the model in controlling and mitigating cyber-attacks, more specifically in the context of Afghanistan.

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A Framework for Cybersecurity Strategy for Developing Countries: Case Study of Afghanistan

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Cited by 16 publications

References 6 publications

The Importance of Cybersecurity Education in School

The Importance of Cybersecurity Education in School

The UKM Students Perception towards Cyber Security

A Model for Afghanistan’s Cyber Security Incident Response Team

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