We are utilized to the emergencies of cleavers and slugs. Tragically, the future threats to the harmony and thriving of Nigeria would not come from by the same token. There is another conflict developing on the planet. It is not battled on the land, ocean, and air or even in the actual space. It is battle of the fifth area: the cyberspace. Indeed, fighting executed through bunches of PC networks which have connected the world in commonly subordinate interrelationships of individuals, firms and countries. Cyber war is not a conflict of decision. It will come to you regardless of whether you need it. Similarly as PC infection goes after our PCs, this fighting is pursued at public level with results that can close down a tactical control, monetary frameworks, and wellbeing informatics and media transmission organizations. It is something that the country cannot stand to sit around to foster a sound methodology for. However we have neglected to utilize innovation or solid guideline to tackle the humiliation brought about by the Nigerian web fraudsters, in this specific case, disappointment is not a choice.
The world has atomic peace arrangement, yet none exists for cyberwar regardless of the potential monetary perils the last option stances to world business. Appropriately, numerous countries have begun to convey vital orders to secure, protect and essentially fight back when their frameworks are gone after through cyber-implies. It has been demonstrated that individuals could remotely rework networks consistently and trigger torrential slide of issues that can carry a country’s economy to halt. They plant rationale bombs which on ‘blast’ carries tremendous harms to cybersecurity statistics organizations and confidential residents. They could enter our oil establishments, bank servers, electric lattices, aviation authority, GSM organizations and military orders. We unexpectedly figure out that nothing works in the land and all organizations are broken.
This is maybe the most disadvantages of PC networks-the capacity to take up arms through pieces and bytes rather than as it was done in the good ‘old days of shooting shots where the personalities of the trespassers are known. In cyberwar, the aggressors could veil themselves and may try and utilize your manipulated organizations to go after you. It is likewise critical to comprehend that the world ‘PC’ has since advanced. There are pills, watches, shoes, sacks, cellphones that are for sure PCs. Also, most frameworks are on networks with IPs allotted to them. As of late, our Data Priest, Prof Dora Akunyili, in a discourse in Amsterdam made sense of Nigeria’s status on ICT through development of our fiber-optic organizations and satellites. It is about the most fragile connection and countries like US, UK and Canada could be stressed that Africa will turn into the simplest spot to send off assaults on the grounds that our frameworks are not safeguarded alright.