Ghana’s cybersecurity apparatus has a new face steering it through one of the most turbulent digital threat landscapes the country has seen. Dr. Divine Selase Agbeti now heads the Cyber Security Authority (CSA), the state body charged with regulating and coordinating the nation’s response to cyber threats, and his tenure is already reshaping how Ghana talks about digital risk.
Agbeti’s appointment was announced in March 2025, when he took over from Dr. Albert Antwi-Boasiako, the CSA’s founding Director-General. The transition was more than a changing of the guard — it closed out an era in which Antwi-Boasiako built the Authority from scratch, championed the Cybersecurity Act, 2020 (Act 1038), and positioned Ghana as a continental reference point for cybersecurity governance.
The Ministry of Communication, Digital Technology and Innovations later held a staff engagement to formally introduce Agbeti, with Minister Samuel Nartey George stressing that the CSA’s funding and structural reforms were “a national security imperative,” not a discretionary expense.
Agbeti has been blunt with Ghana’s financial sector: cybersecurity can no longer be treated as a box-ticking compliance exercise. He has pointed to Bank of Ghana figures showing reported fraud cases across banks, specialized deposit-taking institutions, and payment service providers climbed sharply — a trend he frames as a direct threat to public trust in the financial system, not just an operational headache for institutions.
That framing extends to the CSA’s own numbers. Between January and December 2025, the Authority logged 23,363 contacts from the public, of which 4,604 were confirmed cybersecurity incidents. Online fraud made up 1,799 of those cases — close to 40 percent of all confirmed incidents, according to CSA officials who have cited the figures at multiple public events this year.
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Beyond public messaging, Agbeti has pushed to strengthen the CSA’s forensic and investigative capacity, arguing that catching cybercriminals requires deeper coordination between the Authority, law enforcement, and other state institutions. That push has already produced results: CSA officials have pointed to a law enforcement operation in Vakpo that led to the arrest of a syndicate accused of impersonating senior government officials, including the Minister of Communications himself.
In April 2026, Agbeti led a CSA delegation to the Department of Defence Intelligence, part of a broader effort to knit together Ghana’s security and cyber institutions into a more coordinated response network.
Agbeti’s influence isn’t confined to Ghana’s borders. As Chair of the Africa Network of Cybersecurity Authorities (ANCA), he has become one of the continent’s more visible cybersecurity diplomats. At the 2026 Cyber and Information Security Exhibition and Conference (CAISEC) in Cairo, he delivered a keynote address and chaired the inaugural Arab-Africa Cybersecurity Roundtable — a first-of-its-kind gathering aimed at bridging African and Arab cybersecurity cooperation. He left Cairo with a Special Achievement Award recognizing his contributions to cybersecurity policy and capacity building across the region.
Agbeti has also taken his message directly to young people, warning against the growing normalization of cybercrime as a fast track to wealth. Speaking at the 2026 Volta Youth Festival in Ho, he didn’t mince words: cybercrime, he said, is not smart work, not innovation, and not entrepreneurship — it’s criminality that can cost young people their education, careers, and freedom.
With Ghana’s digital economy expanding and threats growing more sophisticated, Agbeti’s agenda for the CSA centers on a few clear priorities: sharper public awareness, deeper law enforcement partnerships, and stronger protections for the institutions and citizens now dependent on digital infrastructure for daily life. Whether that agenda can keep pace with the fraud numbers he himself has flagged will likely define how his tenure at the CSA is judged.