Uganda is witnessing an increase in cyber-attacks on many businesses, reports show. The Africa Cybersecurity report 2019/20 revealed an increase in remote connection vulnerabilities in Uganda, citing increased working from home due to the pandemic.
The report authored by the Africa Cyber Immersion Centre Researchers, Milima Security and Serianu Limited, among others, assesses evolving threats.
It found there were increased cyber-attacks in 2020 informed by growing remote connections, which rose by over 30 per cent in Uganda.
Many banks are also increasingly becoming victim to cyber-attacks.
However, all these could soon be history if Ugandan businesses make use of the Raxio Data Centre to store and secure their data.
Located in Namanve Industrial Park, Raxio Uganda is Uganda’s first enterprise-grade, Tier III certified carrier-neutral data centre.
The $15 million (Shs52 billion) data centre is expected to support industries that are facing increasingly complex and unique Information technology and regulatory challenges. Raxio hosts an instance of the Uganda Internet exchange Point which allows networks to directly interconnect and freely exchange data traffic at a common point in-country, making the Internet cheaper, faster and more reliable.
Ms Irene Kaggwa, the Uganda Communications Commission (UCC) executive director, says the new data centre will provide direct access to content without necessarily moving over international links.
This means by having a content delivery network server within the country, it will create faster distribution of content closer to the website but also reduce bandwidth consumption costs for website hosting.
The data centre has 400 racks that will house servers, networking devices, cables while providing 1.5 MegaWatts of IT power to ensure optimal functionality within a safe and secure environment.
Tumubweine Twinemanzi, the executive director of the Bank Supervision at Bank of Uganda, says the new data centre will also create a possibility of companies having cloud based accounting software to set up at the data centre for better storage of clients’ records.