Nigeria: First Cybercrime Confab Seeks Security Measures - AllAfrica.com

Efem NkangaLagos

As the threat of cybercrime goes on to depredation the economy, an anti cyber law-breaking political campaign organisation, Global Network for Cyber solution, is collaborating with the Federal Soldier Ministry of Justice and the National Information Technology Development Agency NITDA to guarantee digital national security.

A statement made available to THISDAY said that the arrangements are put to throw the first national conference on cybercrime and cyber security in Nigeria. The event is geared towards sensitising Nigerians to the threat of cyber crime.

The major preoccupation of the event according to the statement, is premised on the demand to supply a cross platform cyber security solution model that tin be proactively incorporated into existent National Government economical development programme of actions as encapsulated in vision 2020.

The conference also seeks to analyse the cause, the harmful impact on socio-economic development and public presentation with particular focusing on the fiscal sector of the economic system as a nation's lawsuit survey as well as convey to the cognition of National authorities and principal sector drivers, the constituents of emerging and existing institutional and endeavor digital crime.

The event, with the subject "National Digital Security: Engaging the challenges of Digital Criminality, and Future of Nigeria" is scheduled to take topographic point at the Nicon Luxury Hotel, Capital Of Federal Republic Of Nigeria between August 17 and 20 this year.

The issue of cyber law-breaking and cyber security have been on the presence burner for sometime now and the International Communications Union recently identified Federal Republic Of Nigeria as the weakest nexus in the fighting against cyber crime. Global cybercrime statistics uncover a serious challenge faced by economic systems of the world. Between 2005-2007 planetary fiscal houses lost over $5 billion to cybercrime. Assorted studies conducted by reputable organic structures on the issue have got got shown that hackers' activities all over the human race have caused the planetary economic system over $1 billion over the past 12 calendar months and Federal Republic Of Nigeria have not escaped the scourge.

The Global Network for cyber law-breaking according to the statement states: "Unfortunately, fiscal sector is the hottest and greatest mark of cybercrime in recent time. Millions of money in dollars have been invested, with million of calling generated via this sector."

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The arrangement added :"We can not afford to wait and let cyber criminal to perpetuate themselves endlessly without a formidable challenge. We must have got a forum to fully understand the gross pandemic and harmful personal effects of cybercrime in this sector".

The National Conference will pull from lawsuit studies, experiences and resource stuffs gathered through its web of planetary resource people from leading planetary cyber security independent analysts, advisers and cyber security solution model providers.

The organic structure is an anti-cybercrime political campaign and cyber security solution arrangement dedicated to promoting a safe and unafraid African IT cyberspace.

Zayed University launches 3 new graduate programs

Dr. Sulaiman Aluminum Jassim Frailty President of Zayed University said:

'Capitalizing on ambitious academic programmes and an exceeding international faculty, the College of Information Technology and its esteemed international spouse Saint George American Capital University in American Capital , District of Columbia offering the Maestro of Science in Information Technology with a specialisation in Cyber Security, the Alumnus Certificate in Information Security, and the Alumnus Certificate in High Technology Crime Investigation.' He added: 'Admissions to the 3 alumnus programmes is unfastened to males and females of all nationalities, and appliers will be evaluated by completion of an undergraduate grade in IT, MIS, Business or any related to field from an accredited university, in improver to have got English proficiency to pull off a challenging, fast-paced program.' On his portion Dr. Leon Jololian Acting Dean of College of Information Technology announced: ' The Maestro of Science (M.S.) inch Information Technology (Specialization in Cyber Security) focuses on the development of concepts, cognition and accomplishments that volition enable successful participants to go experts in the country of information security, cyberspace law-breaking prevention, and digital law-breaking investigation. The end of this programme is to develop highly qualified technical experts to ran into the demands of the national, regional and international workplace for information and web security.' He added: 'The Alumnus Certificate in Information Security takes to set up IT people to develop and pull off the physical and technical substructure necessary to procure critical information assets at all degrees within an organization. In order for the U.A.E. to keep its IT leading in the region, this type of expertness will be indispensable for the enlargement of e-commerce and e-government services in the region. Graduates of the programme will be prepared to detect, forestall and extenuate menaces to systems and information in order to protect the critical information substructure of the U.A.E.' 'While the acquisition results of the 1 twelvemonth portion clip programme of the Alumnus Certificate in High Technology Crime Probe will alumnus pupils with the wide and in-depth knowledge that set ups IT people to execute computing machine forensic investigations.' Dr. Leon explained : 'The addition of high engineering law-breaking have generated an pressing demand for a new type of research worker who can compound the scientific discipline of information engineering and forensic scientific discipline with the fine art of probes and critical thinking. Today, any law-breaking that affects a computing machine as a portion of the crime, as the law-breaking itself or as the storage topographic point for evidence, may be portion of an investigation.' He added: 'This is a critical demand for the U.A.E. and the Gulf region. Graduates of the programme will be prepared to work in local, state, national and international organisations in the public and corporate sectors. They will have got the accomplishments to look into a assortment of lawsuits that include personal identity theft, fraud, kid exploitation, money laundering and violent crimes.'