CSA Wins Cybersecurity Regulator of the Year; Top 20 Tech Leaders | General News

The Ag. Director-General of the Cyber ​​Security Authority, Dr. Albert Antwi-Boasiako, has obtained Top 20 Tech Leaders Award on the twelfth Ghana Information Technology Telecom Awards (GITTA).

Prior to his appointment on October 1, 2021, he served because the National Cybersecurity Advisor and Head of the National Cyber ​​Security Center (NCSC) from July 2017 to September 2021 He led the institutionalization of Ghana's cybersecurity growth which progressed from 32.6% in 2017 to 86.69% in 2020, in keeping with the ITU's Global Cybersecurity Index (GCI), with Ghana ranked third in Africa and forty third globally.

In 2011, Dr. Antwi-Boasiako based e-Crime Bureau, the primary cybersecurity and digital forensics agency with a state-of-the artwork e-Crime Lab to be established and operated in West Africa. Since 2014, He has served as an Expert with the Council of Europe's Global Action on Cybercrime Extended (GLACY+) Project.

In June 2021, he was acknowledged because the world's twentieth most Influential Security Executive within the Cybersecurity Category by IFSEC Global.

He presently serves on the Independent Advisory Committee (IAC) of the Global Internet Forum to Counter Terrorism (GIFCT). He is a Bureau Member of the Cybercrime Convention Committee (T-CY) and is the Government of Ghana's consultant on ECOWAS' Regional Technical Committee (RTC) on Cybersecurity.

He is a Member of the Governing Boards of the National Information Technology Agency and the Cyber ​​Security Authority.

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