Second Quarter Sector Statistics Report for The Financial Year 2019/2020 from Communications Authority Focus on Cybersecurity

REPORT SUMMARY The Sector Statistics Report for the Second Quarter of the 2019/20 Financial Year provides an overview of the performance and trends of the ICT sector for the period 1st October to 31st December 2019, on the following service categories: Mobile Telephony Services. Fixed Telephony Services. Data/Internet Services. Postal and Courier Services. As at […]

Sophos 2020 Threat Report – Focus on Ransomware

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Sophos labs have come up with an informative 2020 threat report to help the reader to defend people and systems from attacks. According to Sophos, Every year, criminals adapt to the best defenses from operators and vendors in the industry. At the same time, defenders must protect systems and processes with new functionality […]

First Quarter Sector Statistics Report for the Financial Year 2019/2020 from Communication Authority Focus on Cybersecurity

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY The Sector Statistics Report for the First Quarter of the 2019/20 Financial Year provides an overview of the performance and trends of the ICT sector for the period 1st July to 30th  September 2019, on the following service categories: Mobile Telephony Services Fixed Telephony Services Data/Internet Services Postal and Courier Services Furthermore, the […]

Truecaller 2019 Report

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Truecaller, is one of the world’s best caller ID and blocking. There has been great incidents of how the app has impacted one’s life, mostly in fighting crime like online harassment, financial fraud among many others. The Truecaller Company has recently released 2019 report, to show how the world communicated using Truecaller. Spams […]

Guidelines for Registration of SIM-cards 2019

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY The Kenya Information and Communications (Registration of SIM-Card) Regulations, 2015, provide that the authority issues administrative guidelines specifying the manner in which telecommunications operators shall submit to the Authority the records maintained pursuant to Section 4 (3). In accordance with the above law, the Communications Authority of Kenya makes the following guidelines concerning […]

DATA PROTECTION ACT 2019

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY President of Kenya, Honorable Uhuru Kenyatta recently gave his assent to the Data Protection law 2019. The new data law establishes the office of the Data Commissioner, make provision for the regulation of the processing of personal data, provide for the rights of data subjects and obligations of data controllers and processors and […]

Bank Supervision Annual Report- Cyber Risk Overview

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY This report, based on statistical market analysis, provides highlights on the structure of the Kenyan banking sector and supervisory developments, macroeconomic conditions and banking sector performance and regional and international developments initiatives. The banking sector is projected to remain resilient in 2019. Banks are expected to continue reviewing their business models and delivery […]

Insurance Industry Annual Report- Focus of Technology

Executive Summary The Insurance Regulatory Authority is a state corporation with the mandate to supervise, regulate and promote development of the insurance industry in Kenya. The Board of Directors of the Authority provides strategic direction towards the achievement of the Authority’s mandate. The Insurance Regulatory Authority is a state corporation with the mandate to supervise, […]