According to a recent Kaspersky report, Nigeria faces the second-highest rate of cyberattacks on the African continent, just like the majority of other nations. Public and private organisations, as well as individual citizens, are all at risk of cybercrime attacks.

In June, Kasparsky disclosed that Nigeria had the 50th-highest global ranking for online threats and was gradually turning into a hotspot for cyberattacks.

The head of Kaspersky’s Global Research & Analysis Team (GReAT) for META, Dr. Amin Hasbini, painted a bleak picture of the situation when he said, “Threats to critical infrastructure, financial institutions, government entities, and service providers have predominated the cyber threat landscape over the past year.  We have witnessed different threat actors target various businesses across industries.

“Businesses should consider leveraging advanced technologies such as threat feeds, security information and event management systems, endpoint detection and response solutions, and tools with digital forensics and incident response features. It is vital to understand that cyber security measures are an ongoing endeavour–and that there is no universal solution to secure a corporate network or data.”

Nigeria’s tech-driven organisation, the Galaxy Backbone, has been working around the clock and making some modest efforts to protect the country from cyber-attacks, as should be expected. 

The ICTEL Expo this year gave the man in charge of progress at the Galaxy Backbone the opportunity to explain what the organisation is doing to protect both businesses in Nigeria and public institutions from these attacks.