On Friday, 13 July 2018, Spearhead Networks, an ICT security consulting firm and winner of the Ghana Information Technology and Telecom (GITTA) awards (IT Security Provider of The Year 2016 & Cybersecurity Company of The Year 2017) partnered with two other young cybersecurity consulting firms under a business synergy programme, to fight cybercrime.

The firms, which include Information Security Architects and Netwatch Technologies, have been known in the offensive security industry to be very good at what they do as security researchers and cyber risk solution providers.

Speaking to the press at La Palm Royal Beach where the event took place, the Chief Executive Officer of Spearhead Networks, Mr Ernest Offei Darko Mensah, revealed that one of the biggest challenges facing the industry is capacity building which goes beyond mere awareness training for staff and delves deeper into assisting corporate and public institutions govern their cyber risk exposure and ultimately building a resilient plan to assist corporates manage their cyber infrastructure.

He further noted in an opening presentation that business synergy is purposely to harness the strengths of the three companies involved to assist in enhancing the delivery of singular and disjointed products into a seamless cyber-resilient service package ensuring clients do not only buy products but get the benefit of partnering a cyber-knowledge bank to augment their cyber security effort.

Speaking on behalf of Information Security Architects Ltd (ISA), Mr. Desmond Israel, lead consultant, made a point that the recent ITU Global Cybersecurity Index placed Ghana very high among its African peers for her effort at instituting the needed legal, regulatory and policy framework but not so much a pride in capacity building and technical measures.

He said further that information security service providers cannot claim to offer solutions when they themselves do not, perhaps, follow and research into the trends of the cyber landscapes.

“ISA is proud to be part of this bigger dream and is ready under its responsible disclosure programme to help more firms understand their cyber risk exposures and also provide the needed technology solutions and training. We can defend our cyber space if we have insight and that is the bedrock of cybersecurity resilience,” he said.

In a presentation on the cybersecurity landscape, Adam Nurudini, a cybersecurity researcher from Netwatch Technologies and recent Blackhat Conference attendee, said attacks will get worse and predicted that by 2021 security breaches will increase. Making a point through his demonstrations using hacking tools, Nurudini said that more users will fall for attacks and more government portals will be attacked.

He called for the right engagement with stakeholders and proposed a roundtable with relevant heads to enlighten them about some of these real-time exposures.

The business synergy programme under which the Cybersecurity Resilience Service Team (CRST) was conceived brought together 27 participants from all three companies and was taken through cybersecurity business development training which included presentation skills and branding for cybersecurity security service by Mr. Clement Danternii, a business development practitioner. Participants expressed their excitement about the initiative. The next implementation phase involves engagement and delivery.FacebookTwitterEmail