FG intercepts 200 cyber attacks during Presidential, NASS elections

The Federal Government blocked over 200 cyber attacks during the just concluded presidential and the National Assembly Elections. Managing Director of Galaxy Backbone (GBB), Prof. Muhammad Abubakar, who disclosed this at the opening session of a two-day Ministerial training for GBB Board members and management staff, yesterday, in Abuja, stated that business continuity and cyber space protection committee has been formed to safeguard and regulate digital activities while optimising the GBB’S Technical Services.

He said, “On the election day alone, we were able to block more thank 200 attacks and the next day the attacks geometrically increased to about 1.2 million and all were blocked from our own businesses.”

Abubakar noted that the training with the theme: “Positioning the GBB Team for Effective Management and Leadership in the 4th Industrial Revolution”, was aimed at reviewing the agency’s performance while initiating alternative means of revenue generation.

On his part, Minister of Communication and Digital Economy, Prof. Isa Pantami urged the agency to think out of the box to discover new areas for government revenue generation. He said, “We need to be proactive in our thinking, let us not maintain the same process everyday when it comes to revenue generation.”

Pantami stated that the train was geared towards evaluating and recalibrating the Galaxy Backbone Limited in regards to management and leadership for optimal outputs and commended Galaxy Backbone’s approach to digital Infrastructural development while saving cost of governance.

He said, “In this training I will be very much sincere with you to point some areas, where we need significant improvement. Training is key when it comes to improving our performance and at the same time training is key when it come to our self-evaluation, self-judgement, self-assessment.”
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