Author's Name:	Adum Joseph & Edward Orinda Onyango
Subject Area:	Science and Engineering
Subject	Computer Science
Section	Research Paper

Steganography, Security challenges, Data relay, Short information exchanges, organizations in Tanzania.

The major objective of this research was to identify the challenges on how data and short message exchange can be secured and implemented using image Steganography mechanism as a safe data information exchange within organizations in Tanzania. The researcher adopted interview as the research instruments, where the research population consisted of 16 staffs that were selected as departments’ directors, extensions officers and secretaries. SPSS and excel were used as data analytical tools. The researcher found out that confidential data and information are still being intercepted irrespective of data protection put in place, the network security is becoming more important as the number of data exchange on the internet increases, therefore, the confidentiality and data integrity requires protection against unauthorized access and use. Organizations having a large number of staffs have made it harder to maintain their security of exchanging data with one another while trying to accomplish their usual business. The researcher therefore recommends that, high level security and data protection mechanism be implemented and put into practice. The researcher also recommends that the organizations’ management should adopt a system for compressing data that leads to an increase performance of the transfer and embedding the encrypted data in the image file in such a way that the image file pretends as normal image file which assures the security in the information transfer.