An ICT expert, Mr Sunday Samuel, on Thursday said Nigeria needed to have an enabling environment to fight cyber crimes decisively.
Samuel, Chief Executive Officer, SMSAM System Nig. Ltd, spoke in Lagos, at the KPMG Africa Cyber Security Conference 2017 with the theme “Security and Resilience in a Digital World”.
He said Nigeria had no complete law to deal with cybercrime, urging the legislative arm of government to close the gap to deal effectively with the menace.
According to him, all security agencies should be on the watch for bad boys disturbing their system.
Another speaker at the conference, Mr Peter Hunter, the Territory Manager, Sailpoint Africa, urged government in Africa to protect their citizens against malicious emails.
Hunter said that African countries needed cross-country cooperation to control cybercrime.
Mr Senyo Hadzor, Network InfoSec Engineer, Vodafone Ghana, in his contribution, encouraged organisations facing issues of cybercrime to always report such cases.
“It is unfortunate that most of the companies affected by cybercrime do not report the cases,” he said.
Hadzor said a change in such attitude was necessary so that perpetrators of cybercrime could be tracked and brought to book.
Earlier, Dr Katherine Getao, the ICT Secretary, Ministry of Information Technology, Kenya, said governments need to respond to the risk posed by the cyber security threat.
According to her, governments should protect citizens and assets from both internal and external cybercrime threats, as technology had become part of everybody’s life. (NAN)