|
Getting your Trinity Audio player ready...
|
Seandovi Security, a cyber security firm, has expressed worry over the increase in cyber security threats and organisations’ snail pace response in tackling online threats and attacks.
As a result, the cyber security company is making moves to train IT personnel in Nigeria on ways to secure data and deal with cyber attacks, especially those that would usually go undetected, during its four-day cyber security training in Lagos, scheduled to hold from November 13 to November 17, 2017.
On the need to hold such a training program, Seandovi Security referred to a recent report released by Check Point Software Technologies Limited, which listed Nigeria and four other African countries among the world’s highest risk countries in the latest Global Threat Impact Index released for May 2017.
According to the Check Point report, Zambia has the highest risk profile, with Nigeria in second position. Uganda, Malawi and South African were ranked 7th, 8th and 9th respectively.
The report stated that South Africa in particular, demonstrated a significant jump in ranking, having moved up from 22nd position since last month.
Edmond Onwuje, founder of Seandovi Security told members of the press that the training will focus on the latest threats affecting enterprises, ranging from zero day attacks and how to deal will this kind of attack.
Onwuje who will lead the training session, said; “This training will also teach trainees how to defend their networks. Students will learn from proven experts on how to perform defensive cybersecurity.
This intensive course immerses students in a simulated lab environment, students will also learn how to perform bug bounty hunting and fuzzing their application for vulnerabilities; Such as Buffer overflows and other vulnerabilities affecting today’s software,” Onwuje said.
He disclosed that; “the training will cover all phases of red teaming and blue teaming with more concentration on blue team. The training will take place at New Horizons Center Lekki, just for a training fee of seventy-five thousand.”
According to Onwuje; “It is high time Nigerian companies took issues around cyber security very serious and we are using this medium to intensify awareness too.”
