The Managing Director of Galaxy Backbone Ltd., Prof. Ibrahim Adeyanju, says the corporate tackled over 27 million cyber assaults on its amenities in the course of the 2023 General Elections.
Adeyanju made this recognized, when the Director-General of Voice of Nigeria, Malam Jibrin Baba-Ndace, paid him a courtesy go to on Friday in Abuja.
Adeyanju stated that the organisation prided itself because the state-of-the-art safety operation centre, which it used to defend the our on-line world of the federal government.
“We take part in defending Nigeria in our on-line world. Even within the days of the election and collation of the 2023 election outcomes, we had 27 million assaults inside a single day.
“Before the election, now we have a most of fifty,000 assaults. So, having near 30 million assaults in a single day confirmed that one thing severe was occurring.
“They didn’t succeed. There was nothing for them, as a result of, our safety operation centre was very efficient in defending (towards) cyber assaults.
“Similarly, over the past protest that occurred few weeks in the past, we had spikes of assaults. We weren’t shocked as a result of, earlier than the protest, we heard within the information that the protest can be carried out each bodily and on-line.
“So, there were a lot of online attacks, but we were able to survive, through our operation centre,” he stated.
The Galaxy Backbone boss stated that the organisation had a centre the place it monitored all its networks in nearly all states of the federation.
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Speaking, the VON DG, Ndace, stated he got here to the organisation to deepen the connection between VON and Galaxy Backbone.
He requested assist and capability constructing on ICT and cyber safety for members of employees of VON, to reinforce fact-checking, defend its our on-line world and deal with pretend information.
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