Cybersecurity:Expert Urges FG To Be Proactive In Cybersecurity Management
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Following the continued attacks on Nigeria’s cybersecurity system, an expert and Professor of computer science and information security Adesina Sodiya has urged the federal government and corporate organizations to be proactive in security management.
Prof. Sodiya stated this during the 80th inaugural lecture held at the Federal University of Agriculture Abeokuta on Wednesday at the Oluwafemi Balogun ceremonial hall at the school premises.
He posited that if there is effective access control of the system, it would be difficult to attack thereby, preventing it, calling for enabling a secure domain controller, (DC)using best practices that
Sodiya also advised the government to set up Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT) for swift response to attack incidences.
“The government should set up a Computer Emergency Response Team in all government sectors to for swift response to attack incidence, and also develop a multi-lingual attack reporting platform”.
“For proactive cybersecurity management, corporate organization and government should make sure that all connections to the network are known, documented, and monitored. And the intelligence of hackers must be harnessed by the government for the development of our nation”. He argued.
In the same development, Sodiya also recommended that the Federal University of Agriculture Abeokuta and some other institutions should support the creation of a College of Computing to develop adequate manpower and expertise needed in the field of cybersecurity.
He said,” Apart from stated recommendations, the university should support the creation of the College of Computing to develop adequate manpower and expertise needed in the field of cybersecurity”.
He also maintained that the use of security applications from reliable vendors would prevent attacks on the system. Recalling that over 12 million attacks were detected during the last election which was mitigated by the cybersecurity expert in Nigeria.
“Although Nigeria is not found bad when it comes to cybersecurity, the last research disclosed that Nigeria is the number in Africa, but we should not rest on oars because all these cybercriminals are also updating themselves every time”.
“We still need over 1 million IT experts alone in Africa, and over 5 million cybersecurity experts needed in the world, so we need to harness our skills in cybersecurity”.
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