Worried by the level of cyber insecurity in the communication industry, the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) is rallying experts and other stakeholders to a conference that would find solution to the menace.
The theme of the conference, which would hold at the Transcorp Hilton Hotel, Abuja is: Strengthening the Security and Resilience of the Communication Infrastructure.
The event would provide platform for discussion on developing a joint coordination for incidence response for the communications industry, introduce cyber insurance and bridging the cyber workforce gap.
The conference would also seek to strengthen national cooperation, exchange of information and development of comprehensive strategies that will address the cyber security challenges as they relate to the communication industry. In Nigeria.
It would provide observations, insights, opportunities and threats that exist I the cyber security ecosystem and look at regulation of cyber security services and private owned cyber security incidence response teams.
Experts say there are several IP based threats within the all-IP 4G network combined with insecure legacy 2/3G generations and that moving into the 5G era the threat landscape will increase due to the new services and technologies being introduced.
For instance the global GSM Association says there would be increased cyber security threat to the communication industry over time.
The World Economic Forum (WEF), recently considers cyber-attacks as the third highest global risk requiring that the industry must recognise that operators are a major target for attackers and in order to respond to this threat the mobile ecosystem needs to focus its efforts to prevent as well as respond to the increasing threat.
