Cybersecurity is no longer an IT problem – Divine Selase Agbeti

The Cyber Security Authority (CSA) has urged businesses and organisations to treat cybersecurity as a core business responsibility rather than an issue confined to their information technology departments.

The Director-General of the CSA, Divine Selase Agbeti, said cyber risks can have wider consequences for businesses, their customers and the economy, making cybersecurity a responsibility for boards and senior management.

“Cybersecurity must not remain buried somewhere in the technology department. Cyber risk is business risk,” he said.

Speaking at the launch of the 2026 National Cybersecurity Awareness Month (NCSAM) on Thursday October 1, Agbeti said organisations must strengthen their ability to anticipate, detect and respond to cyber threats.

He urged boards and chief executive officers to ask critical questions about their organisations’ cybersecurity preparedness, including how quickly they can detect an intrusion, contain an attack and maintain operations during a disruption.

He also called on organisations to regularly assess third-party access to their systems and conduct response exercises to test their preparedness for cyber incidents.

“Resilience is not the absence of attacks. Resilience is the ability to anticipate them, withstand them, recover from them and emerge stronger,” he said.

Agbeti said the increasing reliance on digital technology means cybersecurity must also be viewed as a matter of economic security, national security and public trust.

“There can be no sustainable digital economy without digital trust. And there can be no digital trust without cybersecurity,” he added.

The 2026 NCSAM is being held under the theme “Securing Ghana’s Digital Finance Ecosystem: Building Trust Through Collaboration and Cyber Resilience.”

The campaign seeks to raise awareness of cyber risks and encourage institutions and the public to adopt stronger measures to protect digital systems and financial transactions.

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