The youth have been challenged to take advantage of various courses offering cyber security skills to benefit from the available and expanding employment opportunities in the public and private sector.
Cyber security remains one of the most lucrative areas of Information Communication Technology (ICT) in the wake of expanding digitization of services in all sectors of the economy.
Cybercrime, including increased hacking of data belonging to governments, commercial entities and individuals which could lead to loss of money, crucial and confidential data, has made skills in cyber security paramount.
According to a report from the ICT Authority, school leavers across the country should take advantage of skills being offered under various digital hubs created by the government in Technical Vocational Training Institutes (TVET).
The report said that even those in the rural areas where adoption of digitization is gradual should embrace courses in cyber security because skills to protect all types of data in business, at home and at work will continue to grow.
According to Stanley Kamanguya, CEO ICT Authority, the government has launched major campaigns to ensure the youth in the country access up-market digital skills, including cyber security expertise through the various digital hubs.
Those undergoing various courses, Kamanguya said, are offered the right aptitude certificates to be able to access employment locally and abroad, apart from also going for self-employment in the expanding commercial cyber spaces.
Kamanguya also assured that those qualified as cyber security experts after training would also be accredited to access contracts to install data protection programme.
Since the government started the programme to train Kenyans on various ICT skills through the Jitume Digital Hubs, close to 4900 young people have benefitted and majority confess to making attractive incomes from use of the skills they have gained.
The ICT authority estimates that in the next two years, digitization will provide employment to more than two million people, majority comprising of young people working for international organizations and from home.
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