Cybersafety: How Nigeria tackles over 1.2m attacks during 2023 Presidential, NASS elections -GBB

*Prof. Isa Ali Pantami, Honourable Minister for Communications and Digital Economy, lauds Galaxy Backbone Limited, says recent the training for the company is aimed at the empowering the Management and leadership for optimal outputs

Isola Moses | ConsumerConnect

The Federal Government blocked over 200 cyberattacks during the last Presidential and National Assembly (NASA) elections held Saturday, February 25, 2023.

Prof. Muhammad Abubakar, Managing Director of Galaxy Backbone (GBB), disclosed the development at the opening session of a two-day Ministerial Training titled, “Positioning the GBB Team for Effective Management and Leadership in the 4th Industrial Revolution”, held for GBB’s Board members and Management staffers on Tuesday, March 7, in Abuja, FCT.

Abubakar noted the company had formed a business continuity and cyberspace protection committee to protect and regulate digital activities while optimising the GBB’S Technical Services in the Nigeria digital ecosystem, agency report said.

The training was aimed at reviewing the agency’s performance while initiating alternative means of revenue generation, the GBB Chief.

He also stated: “On the election day alone, we were able to block more than 200 attacks and the next day, the attacks geometrically increased to about 1.2 million and all were blocked from our own businesses.”

Speaking on the significance of the programme, Prof. Isa Ali Pantami, Honourable Minister for Communications and Digital Economy, said the training was aimed at evaluating and recalibrating the Galaxy backbone Limited in regard to management and leadership for optimal outputs.

Pantami, who served as the training facilitator, applauded GBB’s approach to digital infrastructural development while saving cost of governance.

The Minister said: “In this training, I will be very much sincere with you to point out some areas where we need significant improvement.

“Training is key when it comes to improving our performance and at the same time training is key when it comes to our self-evaluation, self-judgement, self-assessment.”

Pantami further stated: “We need to think out of the box to discover new areas for government revenue generation.

“We need to be proactive in our thinking, let us not maintain the same process everyday when it comes to revenue generation.”

The Ministry for Communications and Digital Economy February 23, 2023 inaugurated a Committee for Cyberspace and Information and Communication Technology (ICT) Infrastructure Protection ahead of the ongoing 2023 General Elections.