South African State Security to handle cyber-crime policy

Government will make cyber crime and security a priority for this year with the transfer of responsibility from the Department of Communications to that of State Security, says Justice & Constitutional Affairs Minister Jeff Radebe.

Radebe said this at a Parliamentary press briefing on Sunday in which he added that a cyber-security policy would be tabled before Cabinet - government's highest decision-making body - soon.
The creation of an overall cyber-security policy had been a priority of the Department of Communications for almost a decade and former Communications Minister Siphiwe Nyanda had said in 2010 that it was finalized and would be presented to Cabinet in that year.
"We as a cluster (all the ministries involved in security, justice and police) had decided that it would be more appropriate for the Ministry of State Security to handle," Radebe said.
During the briefing Radebe said the police had implemented interim operational measures to deal with incident management and several cases had been prosecuted by the National Prosecuting Authority whilst others were under investigation.
"The reduction of cyber-crime is, however, interdependent and multi-faceted. It requires the intervention of parents in monitoring their children's' online activities in order to ensure that they do not become victims of human and drug trafficking as well as other abuses," he said.

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