CIIs are on a high increase, the magnitude, frequency and impact of such security incidents can impede the pursuit of economic activities, generate substantial disruption to critical services, financial losses, undermine public confidence, and cause major disruption to our economy.
CIIs are constituents’ assets (real/virtual), networks, systems, processes, information, and functions that are vital to the nation such that their incapacity or destruction would have a devastating impact on national security, the economic and social well-being of citizens. CII may comprise several different infrastructures with essential interdependencies and critical information flows between them.
The Namibian government recognises defines a critical information infrastructure as a computer system or computer network that is essential for national security or the economic and social well-being of citizens.
The constituents of the NAM-CSIRT are from different industry sectors including communication service providers that are licensed under the Communications Act 8, of 2009, the critical infrastructure owners, critical information infrastructure, and the national entities.
