United States acting deputy chief of mission, Alan Tousignant, will on Monday, August 1 open the second week of the West Africa cyber initiative bilateral workshop in Abuja.
During the week, US government officials will train about 40 judges and 10 legislators/policy makers on basic cyber awareness, legal proceedings, electronic evidence, and cyber security strategy, the US embassy in Abuja said Thursday in a statement.
The training will also assist Nigeria to implement its cyber crime law through judiciary capacity building, while promoting civil liberties, cyber security due diligence, and the values of US international strategy for cyberspace.
In the first week, US government officials trained over 50 Nigerian investigators and prosecutors to strengthen cyber crime first responder and digital evidence skills, while also reviewing international cooperation, cyber security strategies and civil liberty issues.
Quarterly analysis of the global Threat Index by Check Point® Software Technologies for the second quarter of 2016 named Nigeria as the 16th highest ranked country in cyber crime, moving up two places from 18th position in the preceding quarter.
Check Point is the largest global pure-play network cyber security vendor, and their threat index provides a data-based breakdown of new and prevalent threats, as well as the relative rankings of countries’ risk profiles globally, with an index format showing that the higher the ranking, the greater the threat of cyber-attack.
Developing and African nations are highly represented in the upper rankings of the index, and Nigeria was surpassed by a few other African countries, including Namibia and Malawi, which came in the second and fourth spots respectively.
In contrast, Kenya improved their ranking by 24 places, moving from 45th position at the end of 2015, to 69th at the end of Q1 2016.
