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There is an emerging trend of cyber inequity between countries, corporates and organizations, evolving technological transition, current cyber-skills and workforce shortage that calls for an urgent needs and importance of building a better local and global cybersecurity ecosystem. The scale and sophistication of cyberattacks/threats and cybercrimes landscape continue to fuel the lucrative nature of ransomware, automation disruption, theft of intellectual property and data business concerns. There is urgent need to enhance cyber resilience and defense systems by prioritizing and investing in improving cyberdefence and cyber-resilience postures of governments and critical firms, as variety of complex systems and technologies are becoming increasingly vulnerable to attacks, incidents and threats/crimes. The article assesses critical infrastructure and population data vulnerabilities in shaping cyberdefence and cyber-wellness in targets domains against cyberthreats, attacks and cybercrime globally and in Africa particularly. We documented that increasing ransomware, extortion and ubiquitous phishing supply chain attacks are now all commonplaces. Our findings showed that financial services, mining and healthcare, travel and personal information and identity are the most affected domains. The most vulnerable African countries were namely Ethiopia, Nigeria, South Africa, Algeria, Rwanda and Kenya. Phishing was by far the most prevalent crime with growing prevalence of others. Scaling up cybersecurity and compliance solutions requires a coordinated and dedicated commitment and investment to cyberdefence in Africa. Proactive multisectorial partnership and data sharing collaboration is a potential game changer and resiliency to keep cyber-threats on surveillance check, priorities settings and aligned national actions plans. Sharping shared focus and bringing parties and stakeholders together is essential in building crucial evidence-based cyberdefence and cybersecurity, vulnerability monitoring and compliance solutions. Our results are discussed in improving data-driven or evidence-based cybersecurity intelligence, cyberdefence data sharing protection and improved public–private partnership those are essential building blocks in increased regulatory enforcement, legislative reforms actions and protection measures including digital trust, cyber-inclusive future and resiliency against cyberattacks vulnerabilities, losses and damages. Timely and continuous cyber information triage, analysis and shared cybersecurity and cyberdefence intelligence such as artificial intelligence and deep machine learning potential applications from multisource have immense potential to enrich more contextual and actionable defensive capacities including threat detection and mitigation intelligence, cyber information equitable sharing, early waning and response systems.
Ernest Tambo
Africa Disease Intelligence, Preparedness and Response, Yaoundé, Cameroon
School of Public Health, Faculty of Medicine, Universite des Montagnes, Cameroon
Center for Leadership in Global Health Equity, University of Global Health Equity, Kigali, Rwanda
Kennedy Okorie
Africa Disease Intelligence, Preparedness and Response, Yaoundé, Cameroon
Department de Sante Publique, Faculté de Médecine, Université de Douala, Cameroon
Ngo Tappa Tappa
Africa Disease Intelligence, Preparedness and Response, Yaoundé, Cameroon
Department de Sante Publique, Faculté de Médecine, Université de Douala, Cameroon
Narcisse Ngouamo
Africa Disease Intelligence, Preparedness and Response, Yaoundé, Cameroon
Department de Sante Publique, Faculté de Médecine, Université de Douala, Cameroon
Association for Equity, Resilience and Wellbeing in Africa (APERA)
Hoberlin Fotsing Sadeu
Africa Disease Intelligence, Preparedness and Response, Yaoundé, Cameroon
Patience N Njinyah
Africa Disease Intelligence, Preparedness and Response, Yaoundé, Cameroon
Department de Sante Publique, Faculté de Médecine, Université de Douala, Cameroon
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