Africa-Press – Botswana. Botswana Communications Regulatory Authority (BOCRA) and Lesotho Communications Authority (LCA) have signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) towards strengthening their cyber security cooperation.
Speaking at the signing ceremony in Gaborone, BOCRA Chief Executive Officer, Mr Martin Mokgware said cyber security issues would dominate the public discourse and constitute a major part of regulatory mandate.
Mr Mokgware said this highlighted the evolving nature of the cyber threats the two countries faced and underscored the need for joint action towards reinforcing cyber security.
He emphasised the essential role of Computer Incident Response Teams (CSIRTs) as their frontline defence armours, sating that the cyber security challenges transcended borders.
“This is why BOCRA and LCA have seen the need to join forces and resources to improve our abilities for detecting, mitigating and fighting cyber threats. By formalising cooperation between our CSIRTs, we reinforce our collective resilience against cyber adversaries,” he said.
Mr Mokgware said some key contents of the MoU included information sharing where their CSIRTs agreed to establish channels and protocols for timely exchange of information related to cyber threats, vulnerabilities and incidents.
He pointed out that this would enhance the duo’s situational awareness and collaboration in detecting, analysing, and mitigating cyber threats.
Mr Mokgware explained that the collaboration would help in incident coordination through clarifying procedures for united incident responses, citing that policy harmonisation through aligning cyber security policies for effective collaboration was a key agenda of the partnership.
Beyond cyber security, he said the MoU facilitated information exchange in areas such as frequency spectrum management and billing procedures, mentioning that broader collaboration would help optimise spectrum resources, thereby promoting transparency in billing and fostering regulatory coherence.
Meanwhile, the LCA Chief Executive Officer, Mr Nizam Goolam said the two countries had a lot of shared values.
He said when Lesotho was facing cyber related matters the first country they thought of benchmarking with was Botswana and they contacted BOCRA.
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