ABSTRACT
The South African State Security Agency published the National Cybersecurity Policy Framework (NCPF) in 2012 that calls for a coordinated national approach for establishing and maintaining cybersecurity. The NCPF seems to provide the measures and mechanisms for policy coordination across government departments, agencies, and regulators. This chapter presents a state-level overview of cybersecurity efforts in the South African civilian and military domains. There has been some progress in the passing of the Cybercrimes Bill in December 2018, and in building coherence of the administration of government departments (or “cluster”) engaged with cybersecurity governance. South Africa is also a member of, Southern Africa Development Community (SADC), and a number of guidelines and model laws have been developed as a way to promote common approaches to common problems, including the SADC Model Law on Data Protection and the SADC Model Law on Cybercrime.
