The sophisticated infrastructure put in place by the various government entities tasked with safeguarding the country’s online, according to Pantami, allowed the attacks to be effectively stopped.
During the recently finished Presidential and National Assembly elections, no less than 12.9 million cyberattacks were registered from both inside and outside the nation.
Around 6.9 million assaults were registered on election day alone, according to the disclosure made on Tuesday by Prof. Isa Pantami, Minister of Communications and Digital Economy.
The complex infrastructure put in place by the various government entities tasked with safeguarding the country’s internet, according to Pantami, is what allowed the attacks to be effectively stopped.
While praising President Muhammadu Buhari for creating an environment that allows government agencies to carry out their duties without interference, the Minister noted that, in the lead-up to the presidential elections, threat intelligence had revealed an exponential rise in cyberthreats to Nigeria’s cyberspace.
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“All all, 12,988,978 assaults were noted, coming from both inside and outside of Nigeria. It is important to note that the Centers effectively stopped these assaults and/or escalated them to the right authorities for appropriate action, according to a statement from Pantami’s press assistant, Uwa Suleiman.
There were several hacking efforts at this time, including Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS), email and IPS assaults, SSH login attempts, Brute force injection attempts, Path Traversal, Detection Evasion, and Forceful Browsing.
“Under the direction of the Ministry of Communications and Digital Economy, the parastatals have played a significant role in creating the supportive environment for the successful conduct of a credible, free, fair, and transparent election,”
The National Information Technology (NITDAComputer )’s Emergency Readiness and Response Team (CERRT), the Nigerian Communications Commission’s Computer Security Incident Response Team (CSIRT), and Galaxy Backbone’s Security Operations Centre (SOC) were among the cybersecurity centres established under his Ministry that he praised for a job well done.
