Re: Insecure Internet in Africa & Mauritius

From: Loganaden Velvindron <loganaden_at_gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 5 Nov 2015 17:49:03 +0000

On Wed, Nov 4, 2015 at 5:13 PM, S Moonesamy <sm+mu_at_elandsys.com> wrote:
> Hi Logan, Ish,
> At 07:30 04-11-2015, Loganaden Velvindron wrote:
>>
>> CERT-MU is mandated to do that. Going through their mission statement:
>
>
> That might be the mission statement published by CERT-MU. CERT-MU operates
> under the auspices of National Computer Board. The National Computer Board
> is mandated [1] to "assist in the framing of appropriate national education,
> training and research plans in the field of information technology". I
> don't see anything in there directly related to internet security.
>
> The Chairperson of the ICT Advisory Council commented about "provision in
> the law" on 20 October. Could Ish or you, as members of the Council,
> comment on which provision of law gives National Computer Board or CERT-MU
> the mandate to look into internet security?
>

There are none.

However, something caught my attention:

There is an oath of secrecy for any staff of NCB. I'm wonder how this
affects the staff of CERT-MU as they are dealing with security
vulnerability reports.

If they make vulnerability information public, does that mean they can
be sued in a court for doing their job ?
Received on Thu Nov 05 2015 - 17:49:16 PST