{"id":229211,"date":"2026-04-01T02:26:56","date_gmt":"2026-04-01T00:26:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/ghana\/ghana-bog-launches-new-cyber-security-directive-to-safeguard-financial-sector\/"},"modified":"2026-04-01T02:26:56","modified_gmt":"2026-04-01T00:26:56","slug":"ghana-bog-launches-new-cyber-security-directive-to-safeguard-financial-sector","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/ghana\/ghana-bog-launches-new-cyber-security-directive-to-safeguard-financial-sector\/","title":{"rendered":"Ghana: BoG Launches New Cyber Security Directive to Safeguard Financial Sector"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"32\">The Governor of the Bank of Ghana, Dr Johnson Pandit Asiama, has launched the revised Cyber and Information Security Directive (CISD) 2026, aimed at strengthening the resilience of Ghana&#8217;s digital financial ecosystem.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"21\">He said the initiative was a critical step towards safeguarding the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of data within the financial sector.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"39\">Speaking at the launch in Accra, Dr Asiama said the theme for the launch: <em>&#8216;A Safer and More Resilient Digital Financial Industry,&#8217;<\/em>&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202603310611.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 West Africa <a title=\"Ghana\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/west-africa\/ghana\/\">Ghana<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Governor of the Bank of Ghana, Dr Johnson Pandit Asiama, has launched the revised Cyber and Information Security Directive (CISD) 2026, aimed at strengthening the resilience of Ghana&#8217;s digital financial ecosystem. He said the initiative was a critical step towards safeguarding the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of data within the financial sector. Speaking at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":229212,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4507],"tags":[258,256,12144,6197,9137,5063,4508,4509,5957,257,13376,5991,4586,254],"class_list":["post-229211","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ghana","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-bog","tag-cyber","tag-directive","tag-financial","tag-ghana","tag-ghana-news","tag-launches","tag-news","tag-safeguard","tag-sector","tag-security","tag-south-africa-today"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229211","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=229211"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229211\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/229212"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=229211"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=229211"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=229211"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}