National Identity Management Commission (NIMC) has raised concerns over cybersecurity in Nigeria. At a workshop organized by the commission in Abuja, Chris Onyemenam, DG of NIMC spoke on the theme “Applying big data analytic and active cyber defence in large scale identity management system”.
He said the commission decided to use Nigerians for its project to guard against future cybersecurity threats on its data base.
“We deliberately trained Nigerians to operate the NIMC project so as to avoid the idea of engaging foreign technical experts, who may decide to hold us to ransom in future.”
He noted the increasing rate of cyber crimes and the need to protect its data base from such infiltration.
“The reason we are holding this workshop is because NIMC is aware of the high cyber crime threat on the identity management system, and we want to take additional measures to prevent it,’’ Onyemenam said.
Prof Ndubuisi Ekekwe, chairman of Milonics Analytics said measures aimed at protecting the country’s identity system from cyber crimes must be sustained.
“Recent developments in the world have shown that they are high cyber attacks on advance countries and the security of a country can be infiltrated with the advancement in ICT.
“The way we manage our data base today has to change so as to move with technology, it is no longer garbage in and garbage out as usual. There is need to engage young Nigerians in ICT programmes that will show case their talents in technology,’’ Ekekwe said.
