Cyber
By Chiazo Ogbolu
Lagos, July 4, 2018 (NAN) The Information Systems and Security Professionals (ITSSP) on Wednesday said human capacity development on cyber forensics was key to tackling cybercrime in the country.
Prof. Adesina Sodiya, the President of ITSSP, made this known in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Lagos.
Sodiya described cyber and computer forensics as the application of scientifically proven methods to gather, process, interpret, and the use of digital evidence to provide a conclusive description of cybercrime activities.
Cyber forensics also includes the act of making digital data suitable for inclusion into a criminal investigation.
According to Sodiya, ITSSP is mainly concerned about information security in the country and measures put in place to ensure that the country moves to the level that is desired.
He said that currently, the state of development of information security and cyber security was too low compared with other African countries.
He said that according to the International Telecommunication Union (ITU), Nigeria had moved from a novice country to a level of many options in cyber security because of the review of the Cyber Crime Act and policies.
He said to make more impact on cyber security; the Act should be implemented as it had achieved only 10 per cent implementation.
“In the country today, we still have dearth of knowledge in cyber forensic and that is why a month ago, the ITSSP conducted a workshop to address the issue.
“We need to teach people, the skills, knowledge that is needed in prosecuting cyber criminals as the process comes in stages.
“The stages in investigation has to do with going to the scene of attack, getting the required information and processing information so that it will be suitable for court presentation.
“Unfortunately, our personnel are not well equipped with the requisite knowledge to handle these and that is why government and organisations should be on hand to educate them on the act and science behind cyber forensic.
“The Cyber Security Act should also be well implemented though what exists may not be sufficient for the country because with cyber security, new ways of attack do come up.
“The country cannot continuously come up with new policy or Act that will address even emerging attacks and challenges in cyber security,” he said.
The ITSSP president said that there were so many reported and unreported cases of cybercrime in the country but the issue was that majority had not been prosecuted.
He attributed this to the fact that the agencies involved that were supposed to work on them did not have the knowledge required.
He also called for the establishment of a cyber forensic lab in the country, and commended the Lagos State Government for establishing the only existing one in the country.
Sodiya said that having the lab would go a long way in analysing results got from crime scene and making it presentable in the court. (NAN)
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Edited by Constance Imasuen/Grace Yussuf