Cameroon’s cyber defense systems have been significantly strengthened and made more resilient following the acquisition and deployment of state-of-the-art cybersecurity technology at the Computer Incident Response Team (CIRT) of the National Agency for Information and Communication Technologies (ANTIC). CIRT is the specialised unit responsible for detecting, preventing and responding to cyber threats within the national cyber space.
The equipment was acquired within the ambit the of the World Bank funded Project for the Acceleration of Digital Transformation of Cameroon known by its French acronym as PATNUC. It was officially handed over to ANTIC Tuesday January 20, 2026, by the Minister of Posts and Telecommunications during a ceremony held at the Agency’s Head Office in Yaoundé.
While commissioning the equipment, Minister Libom Li Likeng néé Mendomo Minette, enjoined ANTIC to make judicious use of the new tools in a bid to ensure a safe and attractive national cyberspace that supports the sustainable growth of the digital economy.
The newly deployed technology includes servers, storage consoles, investigation platforms, workstations, vulnerability scanning and penetration testing platforms. According to the Director General of ANTIC, Prof. Ebot Ebot Enaw, these assets will enable ANTIC to proactively respond to attacks targeting Cameroon’s critical infrastructure, notably via the deployment of intrusion detection and prevention systems. Mindful of this, he expressed ANTIC’s profound gratitude to the Minister of Posts and Telecommunications for initiating PATNUC and choosing ANTIC as one of its beneficiaries.
Valued at over FCFA 735 million, the equipment is expected to sustainably enhance the operational capacity of CIRT, which currently collects and analyses 200 GB of data daily to response to nearly 200 urgent requisitions from across the country.
Beyond strengthening response capabilities, the new systems will allow CIRT to broaden both the scope and intensity of its efforts in the fight against cybercrime, a phenomenon that remains particularly challenging as evidenced by the following key activities carried out recently:
- In 2025 alone, 32,500 legal requisitions were processed, representing a 30 percent increase compared to 2024.
- Since January 2024, 8,502 vulnerabilities have been identified through vulnerability scans and security audits conducted across public and private entities.
- Over the same period, 206 reports on the authentication of digital evidence were produced at the request of judicial authorities.
- In addition, since January 2024, close to 8,500 fake online accounts were detected, of which 6,416 were successfully taken down through collaboration with social media platforms notably Facebook and TikTok.
It is worth recalling that PATNUC is a major national initiative led by MINPOSTEL with support from the World Bank to accelerate digital inclusion, expand digital services and infrastructure and drive economic and social development via technology.
