City makes arrests in IT nerve centre sabotage
17 November 2017
I am happy to announce the arrest of 3 suspects by the South African Police Services (SAPS), working together the City’s Group Forensic Investigation Department and the JMPD following a break-in at our data centre in Braamfontein last weekend.
The arrests are the result of a tip-off received from a member of the public regarding the theft. Two of the suspects were arrested in Tembisa yesterday afternoon while another was apprehended earlier today. However, the investigation is still on-going.
The City is currently in the process of building its data centre and disaster recovery centre.
We are investing in the protection of our citizen’s information, while ensuring that we build capacity internally, with the aim of hosting our data infrastructure while minimizing our dependency on suppliers to host our infrastructure.