Ghana Cybersecurity Act
What is Ghana Cybersecurity Act?
The Ghana Cybersecurity Act 2020 (Act 1038) was enacted 29 December 2020 + entered into force 6 January 2021. The Act establishes the CYBER SECURITY AUTHORITY (CSA Ghana) as the lead national cybersecurity authority + provides a comprehensive cybersecurity legal framework covering: (1) DESIGNATION + PROTECTION OF CRITICAL INFORMATION INFRASTRUCTURE (CII) across 13 sectors including telecommunications + banking + finance + electricity + water + transport + government services + healthcare + emergency services + others; (2) CYBERSECURITY INCIDENT REPORTING by CII owners to CSA within 24 HOURS of incident discovery + follow-up reports; (3) NATIONAL COMPUTER EMERGENCY RESPONSE TEAM (CERT-GH / National CERT) - the operational arm coordinating incident response + threat intelligence + cyber-exercises; (4) CYBERSECURITY SERVICE PROVIDER LICENSING - mandatory licensing for managed security service providers + penetration testing firms + cybersecurity consultants operating in Ghana; (5) CYBERSECURITY PROFESSIONAL ACCREDITATION - registration + certification of individual cybersecurity practitioners; (6) CHILD ONLINE PROTECTION - provisions on offenses against children + reporting obligations + cooperation with law enforcement; (7) LAWFUL ACCESS + PRESERVATION - electronic-evidence regime + interception + preservation orders; (8) CYBERCRIME OFFENCES - unauthorised access + interception + data interference + system interference + computer-related forgery/fraud + content-related offences (coordinated with Budapest Cybercrime Convention which Ghana acceded to in 2018); (9) CYBERSECURITY AWARENESS + EDUCATION; (10) INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION + MUTUAL LEGAL ASSISTANCE. It comprises 12 controls organised across 7 domains, and applies in Ghana.
How Ghana Cybersecurity Act maps to other frameworks
All 12 controls, each one mapped to the equivalent requirement in other standards, with the evidence that carries across and the mappings that were judged and rejected shown alongside. No account needed to look.
See the control mappings →The 7 domains Ghana Cybersecurity Act groups its controls into
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Ghana Cybersecurity Act, its 12 controls and every mapping into other standards are available over a REST endpoint and an MCP server, so an agent can read them directly. The free tier is 10 calls a day and needs no signup.
Ghana Cybersecurity Act API reference and MCP config →What Ghana Cybersecurity Act requires, control by control
Each page carries the requirement text for one Ghana Cybersecurity Act control and what an assessor expects to see as evidence.
- GHCSA-CII-DESIGNATION-PLAN-AUDIT-RISK CII Designation, Registration, Cybersecurity Plan, Audit and Risk Assessment
- GHCSA-CYBERCRIME-LAWFUL-ACCESS-PRESERVATION Cybercrime Offences, Lawful Access and Electronic Evidence Preservation
- GHCSA-IMPLEMENTATION-ROADMAP Implementation Roadmap - Organizational Roles, Tooling and Metrics
- GHCSA-INCIDENT-REPORTING-CERT-GH Cybersecurity Incident Reporting (24-Hour to CSA) and National CERT-GH Engagement
- GHCSA-SCOPE-CSAGHANA-DEFS Scope, Cyber Security Authority (CSA Ghana) and Key Definitions
- GHCSA-SERVICE-PROVIDER-LICENSING-PROFESSIONAL Cybersecurity Service Provider Licensing and Professional Accreditation
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