http://leadership.ng/news/368843/cyber-security-nigeria-needs-computer-emergency-response-team
By Nkechi Isaac
Leadership
April 29, 2014
Cybercrime is one of the fastest growing areas of crime. More and more
criminals are exploiting the speed, convenience and anonymity that modern
technologies offer in order to commit a diverse range of criminal
activities. These include attacks against computer data and systems,
identity theft, the distribution of child sexual abuse images, internet
auction fraud, the penetration of online financial services, as well as
the deployment of viruses, Botnets, and various email scams such as
phishing.
The global nature of the Internet has allowed criminals to commit almost
any illegal activity anywhere in the world, making it essential for all
countries to adapt their domestic offline controls to cover crimes carried
out in cyberspace. The use of the Internet by terrorists, particularly for
recruitment and the incitement of radicalization, poses a serious threat
to national and international security.
In addition, the threat of terrorism forces authorities to address
security vulnerabilities related to information technology infrastructure
such as power plants, electrical grids, information systems and the
computer systems of government and major companies.
Speaking at the handover and launching of the Computer Emergency Readiness
and Response Team (CERTT.ng) Ecosystem by Consultancy Support Services
(CS2) to the National Information Technology Development Agency (NITDA),
the former acting director-general of the agency, Dr. Ashiru Daura, said
the project marked a turning point in the fight against cyber crime in
Nigeria.
Daura said, “CERTT.ng is concerned with cyber crime which is crime
committed on the cyber space, the internet. A lot of these crimes, which
are of different kinds, happen every minute and every second, now even
though we try as much as possible to provide protection for our systems,
our networks some of these criminals penetrate or attack. So, there is
need for us to do at least two things and these are to repel the attack
and recover the systems, to make sure that we can come back to our
original status as fast as we can and then also learn few lessons from the
attack. That’s the purpose for this team which is to provide response to
any threat or attack in the cyber space.”
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