FITC, NIBSS collaborate to host largest cybersecurity conference in Africa
Against the background of increasing high profile data breaches with increasing sophistication, FITC in collaboration with the Nigeria Inter-bank Settlement System is set to host the largest financial services sector cybersecurity in Africa.
The conference with the themed “Combating Cybercrime: Strategies for Strengthening Emerging Markets,” which is scheduled to hold on Thursday, September 10, 2020, will seek to address the sheer viciousness of growing cyberattacks and threats in Africa that has made it imperative for security efforts to focus prevention measures. FITC and NIBSS as socially conscious, innovation-led, and technologydriven organisations, have collaboratively designed the conference for individuals and organisations, driven by a collective commitment to divergent thinking and global sustainable development, to proffer and co-create solutions to this cybercrime menace, particularly focusing on Africa and emerging markets.
The event will bring to the stage thought leaders from the financial services sector inclusive of banks, technology, and fintech companies across sub-saharan Africa.
It will attract top c-suite executives, subject matter experts, and professionals from across the world who will share insights on contemporary issues around cybersecurity, relevant to the sustained growth, development, and survival of businesses in Africa.
According the organizer, the conference is set to achieve the following objectives amongst others, share survey findings on recent incidence on cybersecurity issues facing the financial services sector, provide industry expert insights on building cybercrime fighting capacity relevant for today’s sophisticated digital world and share organisational resilience strategies adopted by developed economies in protecting organisation’s digital life.
Cybercrime is now being perpetrated on a commercial scale, even amid the pandemic, by very wellconnected and sophisticated professionals and firms, but continuous education and sensitization will create the awareness and collaboration needed to win this war.
Some of the high profiled lined up speakers include industry giants such as Aishah Ahmad CFA, deputy governor - financial system stability, CBN, Ademola Adebise MD/CEO, Wema Bank, Niyi Ajao, deputy managing director, NIBSS, Mitchell Elegbe MD/CEO Interswitch, and Adedoyin Odunfa CEO,
Digital Jewels among others.
The speakers will share comprehensively, tried, and trusted practices on how they have stayed afloat in combating cybercrime, proffering apt solutions, and resolves in combating cybercrimes in their various industries both in Nigeria and beyond.
The seven- hour event will have four power-packed sessions, with over 25+ renowned speakers.
There will also be networking arenas, exhibition booths, sponsors booths, meeting lounges, and other interesting features guaranteed to make the experience feel like an actual physical conference, the organizer says.