Vision Mission and values

About Us

ETHIO-CERT (Ethiopian Cyber Emergency Response Team) is Ethiopia's premier institution dedicated to protecting the nation’s digital infrastructure and ensuring cybersecurity at a national level. Established and organized at the ministerial level, ETHIO-CERT plays a crucial role in safeguarding the country’s critical information systems, providing strategic leadership and response capabilities against emerging cyber threats. Our mission is to build a resilient and secure digital environment for Ethiopia by proactively identifying, mitigating, and responding to cyber risks that could impact national security, economic stability, and public safety. ETHIO-CERT works closely with government agencies, private sector partners, and international organizations to foster a collaborative cybersecurity ecosystem that aligns with global standards and best practices. As the country’s central cybersecurity authority, ETHIO-CERT is dedicated to raising awareness, enhancing cybersecurity capabilities, and developing effective policies to combat cyber threats across all sectors. Through our specialized teams and state-of-the-art technology, we provide continuous monitoring, incident response, and advisory services to ensure the digital security of the Ethiopian people and uphold the nation’s digital sovereignty. With a commitment to excellence and innovation, ETHIO-CERT is at the forefront of Ethiopia’s digital defense, protecting our country’s digital future.

Mission
  • Create a secured, reliable and enabling Ethiopian cyber space by coordinating and building national capacity of proactive readiness and effective incident response centered on analysis.
Values
  • Trustworthiness
  • Innovation
  • Scientific
  • Democracy
  • Synergy

Activities

Activities

Monitor national cyber security 24/7

  • Simulate honey systems to identity cyber  attacks 

  • Accept cyber attack complaint

  • Collect cyber attack data

  • Provide necessary information for  concerned body analysis

  • Conduct malware and intrusion analysis  to identify  attack causes and extract  signatures   

  • Conduct investigation on cyber attacks

  • Conduct cyber security intelligence analysis to identify and predict cyber-attack targets,  vulnerabilities, trends

  • Correlate cyber attacks

  • Prepare and provide cyber security statistics at national level for policy makers.
Proactive readiness
   • Conduct regular risk assessment and identify vulnerability

   • Assure performance of cyber security products based on standards

   • Assure capacity of cyber security professionals based on standards

   • Assure cyber security policy and procedure implementations

   • Watch the technology and update  professionals
Incident Response
   •  Fix vulnerabilities (conduct security systems configuration, patch etc)

   • Conduct signatures update

   • Conduct recovery actions

   • Assure business continuity during cyber attacks
Capacity building and Certification
    • Create general cyber security awareness at nation wide

    • Provide education on cyber-attack to concerned bodies.

    • Train cyber security professionals regularly and certify

    • Strengthen the national CER2Tand work to be certified (fulfill international standard)

    • Create, strengthen and certify organizational CER2Ts

    • Deploy the necessary infrastructure

    • Prepare necessary policies, procedures, standards
Coordination
    • Create team spirit and coordinate

    • Use the Coordination abundantly to achieve the missions.

    • Create global relationship

Partners

Partners

Contacts

Contact Us

Free Call[OH]: 933

Phone Number: +251-993939270,

                            +251-993531965    

E-mail: ethiocert@insa.gov.et

P.O.Box: 124498