CSEAN calls for Cybercrime Law amendments as experts meet

CYBER Security Experts Association of Nigeria ( CSEAN) along with other stakeholders in the country has concluded plans to discuss “the Future of Cyber Security in Nigeria’s Digital Transformation.”

The event, which is scheduled for October 6 and 7 in Lagos would be held both physically and virtually.

CSEAN President, Remi Afon, said the cyber- secure Nigeria conference has become a yearly event but that due to the COVID- 19 pandemic it was low- keyed and virtual in 2020.

Afon, who called for review of the Cybercrime Law 2015 to take into considerations, emerging technologies that appear to be contributing to menace of the crime in Nigeria, and across the globe, said this year’s conference is the seventh of its kind and promises to invoke a collaborative effort, an assembly of cybersecurity industry practitioners, business owners, academia, industry, government, military and law enforcement agencies to identify areas of common interests and proffer inter- workings on ways to tackle cybercrime.

He said the Cybercrime Law has not been reviewed to accommodate new threats from Cryptocurrency, fakenews, Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence, among others.

Afon stressed that the Nigerian judicial system must also build capacity to ensure diligence.

On the planned conference, he said the two- day event will attract the best in the cybersecurity industry globally and feature- rich cybersecurity content of informative and educational value.

He said whilst tech innovation is empowering forces behind booming businesses and growing economies over the world, the increasing integration of digital technologies into almost all aspects of our society is also exposing many to several associated cyber threats.

The CSEAN president said in the last few months, there has been an astronomical increase in ransomware attacks worldwide and there is no sign that this will reduce in the next foreseeable future.