IT

GRA IT Unit is a small team of seven professional staff with complimentary skills who are committed to a common purpose of driving GRA business process to full automation with up-to-date IT infrastructure.

The Unit comprises of a Deputy Director, IT Manager, IT Systems and network Administrator, three IT Officers and one Sub Officer. We are tasked with the responsibility of implementing and administering a comprehensive IT infrastructure including Asycuda which is the database used by Customs Department for their business process.

Gamtaxnet, is built specifically for Domestic Taxes department’s business process. One of our major planned activities for 2009/2010 is to roll these databases out to the different branch/border post offices located all over the country through WAN connections among other responsibilities.

GRA IT UNIT EXPERT ADVICE:

Keep you and your computer save when using internet Crooks or criminals sit at corners of the internet highway to be or trying to be part of the action while you do your genuine transactions over the internet. They might rip you off your cash, take your personal and company information or take charge of your computer for other reasons or destroy your system.

Possible ways of doing just that:

1. Send Viruses, Worms or Trojans to destroy your system and or data
2. Infect your system with Spyware for identity theft
3. Worms like E-Conficker to take charge of your computer to attack others.
4. Email Spam and Scam to con you.
5. Hacking into your network

How to protect yourself and your computer:

1. Install Anti-virus and Anti-spyware on your system and regularly update them
2. Firewall
3. Or a Security Suite that includes Anti-virus, Anti-spyware and Firewall install on your network
4. Do Regular Backup of data
5. Do Encryption on your wireless network
6. Delete unknown messages. Do not upon them.