The digital services of Gauteng and its millions of residents are at high risk from cyberattacks, says the Department of eGovernment.
The department is investing funds and gearing up a strategy to bolster the province’s cybersecurity efforts.
A well-placed cyberattack runs the risk of paralysing all of Gauteng’s digital services, or worse, exposing hoards of private information from residents of South Africa’s most populous province to the dark web.Cybercriminals only need one target, and that is the department that provides data centre services to all other government departments in the province – eGovernment.
In August, the department said that it would allocate “a portion” of its R1.7 billion budget to bolster the province’s cybersecurity in order to avoid being caught off-guard by threat actors.
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