Mr Abdulhakeem Ajijola, committee member, National Broadband Plan(NBP), on Thursday urged national and corporate leaders to strategise and implement new policies to solve the challenges of cyber security in Nigeria.
Ajijola made the appeal during the stakeholders meeting on Nigeria’s Cyber security Challenges organised by Nigeria Computer Society (NCS) at Ikeja. He said that as the challenges of cyberspace escalate, national and corporate leaders must understand that things have changed and ask themselves what they need to do to strategise.
“We need to harmonise our philosophy, ethics and policies to suit the present situation of the country.
“Most of the cyber security infrastructure we have today are owned by the private sector.
“There is a need for more collaboration between the private and the public sectors in terms of combating cyber attacks,’’Ajijola said.
He said that as at 2015, Africa Cyber security market was $0.92 billion, which grew to $3.6 billion in 2018.
He said that now that we are in year 2020, micro, small and medium scale enterprises (MSME)-based cyber security solutions should be in place, principally driven by suitably empowered knowledgeable workers below 35 years of age.
Also, Mr Kashifu Inuwa, the Director-General of the National Information Technology Development Agency (NITDA), said at the event that the agency’s role was to ensure that every sector of the economy was protected against cyber attacks.
The director-general, who was represented by Dr Lawan Ahmed, a director at NITDA, said that the agency also planned to develop a cyber security framework in partnership with Nigeria Computer Society, to reduce the impact of cyber attacks.
