Skills gap affecting information security
Sep 13, 2011
Lack of competent human resource in information communication technology (ICT) is affecting efforts aimed at guarding local businesses against information security risks, an expert has noted.
By David Ssempijja
Lack of competent human resource in information communication technology (ICT) is affecting efforts aimed at guarding local businesses against information security risks, an expert has noted.
Ambrose Ruyooka, the acting commissioner for information technology, observed that computer-aided fraud was becoming rampant, yet the strategies to combat the vice are wanting.
“Uganda still has a challenge of increasing the number of internationally certified information systems auditors to cushion enterprises against fraud committed using IT systems and other forms data misuse,†he said.
Ruyooka, the new president of the Information Systems Audit and Control Association (ISACA) Kampala Chapter, was speaking at the body’s annual general meeting at Hotel Africana in Kampala last week.
He noted that Uganda has only 140 internationally-certified information systems auditors compared with 500 in Kenya.
“We must develop capacity across the board. For example, the Police and the local judicial system must be supported to acquire the necessary technical capacities to detect and prosecute computer-based fraud because this is one of the biggest problems facing local and international businesses,†he said.
The assistant Auditor General, who is also the immediate former ISACA Kampala Chapter president, Keto Nyapendi, said the body would start awareness campaigns to grow membership.
Lack of competent human resource in information communication technology (ICT) is affecting efforts aimed at guarding local businesses against information security risks, an expert has noted.
Ambrose Ruyooka, the acting commissioner for information technology, observed that computer-aided fraud was becoming rampant, yet the strategies to combat the vice are wanting.
“Uganda still has a challenge of increasing the number of internationally certified information systems auditors to cushion enterprises against fraud committed using IT systems and other forms data misuse,†he said.
Ruyooka, the new president of the Information Systems Audit and Control Association (ISACA) Kampala Chapter, was speaking at the body’s annual general meeting at Hotel Africana in Kampala last week.
He noted that Uganda has only 140 internationally-certified information systems auditors compared with 500 in Kenya.
“We must develop capacity across the board. For example, the Police and the local judicial system must be supported to acquire the necessary technical capacities to detect and prosecute computer-based fraud because this is one of the biggest problems facing local and international businesses,†he said.
The assistant Auditor General, who is also the immediate former ISACA Kampala Chapter president, Keto Nyapendi, said the body would start awareness campaigns to grow membership.