[afren] News Release! WACREN signs MoU with OCF to develop CSIRT community in the region and beyond

Noah noah at neo.co.tz
Mon Jan 4 13:56:52 UTC 2021


Hi Effah

Thank you for your response and clarification to that end.

This is noted.....
Noah

On Mon, 4 Jan 2021, 16:43 Effah Amponsah, <effah.amponsah at wacren.net> wrote:

> Dear Noah,
>
> Thanks for your message. We will start with the WACREN region, i.e. West
> and Central Africa, however, in line with our work in the Africa
> Training Initiative and AfricaConnect3 with our collaborators from the
> UbuntuNet Alliance and ASREN, this is aimed at all of Africa.
>
> NREN CSIRTs are our immediate focus, but the service infrastructure we
> deploy will be available to all security teams in Africa that need it.
>
> Happy New Year!
>
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> WACREN
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> On 2020-12-22 6:41 pm, Noah wrote:
> > Dear Effah,
> >
> > Thank you so much for your email and sharing.
> >
> > On Tue, Dec 22, 2020 at 2:31 PM Effah Amponsah
> > <effah.amponsah at wacren.net>
> > wrote:
> >
> >> Dear All,
> >>
> >> We are happy to inform you that WACREN has signed a Memorandum of
> >> Understanding (MoU) with the Open CSIRT Foundation (OCF) to
> >> collaborate
> >> towards developing and strengthening the CSIRT community
> >
> >
> > Great stuff indeed..
> >
> >
> >> in our region
> >>
> >
> > Does this mean WEST AFRICA
> >
> >>
> >
> >> and beyond.
> >>
> >
> > Does this mean the rest of AFRICA.
> >
> >
> >> Please read details here -
> >>
> >>
> >>
> https://www.wacren.net/en/content/wacren-ocf-sign-mou-develop-csirt-community-west-and-central-african-region
> >
> >
> > I read that "The West and Central Africa Research and Education Network
> > (WACREN) and the Open CSIRT Foundation (OCF) have signed a three-year
> > cooperation agreement to build and strengthen computer security in the
> > research and education network (REN) space in the West and Central
> > African
> > region. "
> >
> > Hence my questions above.
> >
> > Cheers
> > Noah
>
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