The Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) is stepping up its digital security capacity and staff development to better manage cyber-related corruption cases.
Director-General Paulus Noa said the institution is actively investing in new tools and continuous training to keep pace with emerging cyberthreats such as hacking and data tampering.
“We will have our technology that we are not able to share with you. Whatever technology we have, what we do is continuous training and acquiring up-to-date technology. The technology you had yesterday becomes useless tomorrow,” said Noa.
He explained that cybercrime threats are constantly evolving, and that investigators must remain ahead by adopting modern digital tools.
Thus, the Commission is working within its resource limits to ensure staff are properly trained and equipped to detect and counter sophisticated attacks on systems and data integrity.
“Those who are hacking are not using one format from 10 years back. They are adopting new ways of making the system. As a result, you train people so that they can also be up to date with the new technological development,” he said.
Noa stated that the fight against cybercrime cannot rest on a single agency and requires broader institutional coordination and added that the ACC’s role must be supported by national systems that manage information and communications infrastructure.
“That issue that we are talking about, the hacking and everything, those are not things to be taken by the Anti-Corruption Commission alone. It’s all the institutions,” he said.
He encouraged closer involvement from entities that operate core digital systems in government and the private sector, noting that cybersecurity preparedness depends on their responsiveness.
The ACC is also implementing internal measures to secure critical data and ensure it remains accessible in the event of a breach. Noa said the Commission prioritises system resilience as part of its digital operations strategy.
“We acquire the up-to-date technological gadgets that can help us to avoid these kinds of things. Making sure that even critical data that we have here is not just stored in our institutions, but it’s stored this way so that in case something happens here we can still retrieve our data,” he said.
The Communications Regulatory Authority of Namibia (CRAN) recently revealed the Namibia Computer Security Incident Response Team (NAM-CSIRT) detected a combined total of 540,786 weaknesses in a digital system, software, or network configuration that can be targeted by cyberattackers and events between January and March 2025.
According to CRAN’s cybersecurity report, this marks a 15.58% decrease from the previous quarter. Despite the drop, the vulnerabilities remain a significant concern, with Open CWMP, a protocol used for remote management of devices, accounting for the majority.
Other leading issues included accessible Telnet, SNMP, FTP, DNS, and SSL POODLE vulnerabilities, all largely stemming from misconfigured or outdated systems.
