The National Agency for Information and Communication Technologies, ANTIC has schooled Law Enforcement Officers and Magistrates of the North Regional Court of Appeal during the 9th edition of the annual get-together, a platform to share notes on basic skills needed to collect and analyse digital evidence
The enriching seminar offered a space for the judiciary to be taught on Cameroon’s ICT ecosystem with a focus on ANTIC’s mission in securing and continuously rendering the national cyberspace safe and sustainable.
According to the Director General of ANTIC, though digitization has transformed all spheres of life , it is not of course hitch-free as unscrupulous individuals are exploiting the security flaws to make gains reason why the security agencies, law enforcement officers and magistrates should be put onboard.
Professor Ebot Ebot Enaw insists that Cameroon through ANTIC is sparing no effort in ensuring that the digital landscape is protected through exchange of services, trainings and engagements in the surveillance of the public administrations through a digital spyglass.
Noting that scamming tops up the chart of cybercrimes in Cameroon; that scam represented about 52% of cyber crimes cases recorded in 2023 with losses estimated at FCFA 1.1 billions,the ANTIC emphasized that the annual come together this time in Garoua was just inevitable.
He insists that the vulnerability of mankind explains why it is obligatory to ensure a cybersecurity culture that leverages permanent awareness raising as well as continuous training of actors of the cybersecurity chain; magistrates and law enforcement officers who have the mandate to track and prosecute cyber criminals
ANTIC therefore has taken up the challenge to build trust and confidence in the entire judicial process, this because the judge hears the allegations, rules on the admissibility of the evidence while ANTIC sets into the judicial process by providing feasible evidence that has been scientifically proven.
The ANTIC boss states clearly that the core of approach by his agency is to engage the ecosystem in terms of building partnerships with key stakeholders and groups through capacity building processes and awareness raising seminars most especially with law enforcement officers and magistrates.
To facilitate the evidence process in the judicial chain, magistrates need to have an understanding of the different types of cybercrimes perpetrated in the cyberspace, their rankings in terms of prevalence, impact and associated risks, the tools and technologies used to fight these crimes etc.
The platform that was organised between August 21 to 23, 2024 zoomed on cybercrime and cybersecurity- a global perspective, child online protection, social media security and personal data management, digital evidence typology and domain name litigation
The 9th awareness get-together, a midway for strengthening existing collaboration ties between ANTIC and the judiciary was presided over by the representative of the Director General of ANTIC, the Director of Studies and ICT Development, Bouba Djama’a
Benly Anchunda
