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Happy and Secure Holidays to you and your family on behalf of
AfricaCERT Stakeholders, Executive Committee, and Project Team.<br>
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We had a year full of events. On December 2012, AfricaCERT
signed an MOU with the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation –
Computer Emergency<br>
Response Team (OIC-CERT). In January 2013, JPCERT sponsored the
application to join FIRST as liaison member and in February 2013,
AfricaCERT <br>
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liaison.<br>
In June 2013, AfricaCERT participated at FIRST Annual Meeting in
Bangkok and had a very positive meeting in Lusaka, Zambia at the
African<br>
Internet Summit. AfricaCERT also participated at the second AIGF in
Nairobi, Kenya in September 2013.<br>
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In November 2013, FIRST, in partnership with TERENA and
AfricaCERT, organized a TRANSITS training course ; JPCERT conducted
APDAY on Advanced Network Monitoring and Traffic<br>
Analysis with KrCERT in Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire. AfricaCERT was also
honoured by the participation of EGCERT, the support of ANSI France,
INTERPOL and<br>
few Law Enforcement Agencies in Africa. <br>
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None of these would not have been possible without the support
of Partners, friends, the leadership of our elders; network of
contacts responding to our <br>
requests and last but not the least the AfricaCERT Project Team.<br>
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Thank you sincerely for all your efforts and the continued
support.<br>
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Next year has its own challenges . While AfricaCERT will
strengthen its operations, extending the network of friends, and
partners is a key challenge.<br>
Discussion have started with leading organizations and professionals
in the cybersecurity field on identifying areas of collaboration.<br>
The awareness creation and capacity building operations with
additional trainings, workshops and a special attention towards end
users are on<br>
the agenda.<br>
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AfricaCERT will also strengthen its relationship with the law
enforcement community, organizations like Interpol etc.<br>
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Looking forward to 2014, AfricaCERT thanks your support and wishes
you Happy and Secure Holidays.<br>
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Best Regards.<br>
<br>
Jean Robert<br>
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