Blog – Cyber Security Challenge Nigeria Initiative (CYSEC NG)

Welcome to the 4th and final week of this year’s Cybersecurity Awareness Month.

This week’s focus is on Cybersecurity in the workplace. As important as personal security is, so is cybersecurity in the corporate environment. A cybersecurity workplace culture is a culture where security is ingrained and infused in every aspect of the workplace. It is built into thinking and planning. With the growing need for remote working […]

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Steps Toward Learning Cyber security

What is cyber security Cybersecurity is the protection of internet-connected systems such as hardware, software, and data from cyber threats. A good strategy helps to save data from being stolen and damaged. It also helps protect devices from being disabled. We have what we call the cybersecurity framework, in which we discuss the major aim

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Cybersecurity A-Z Paid and Free Tools

Cybersecurity A-Z Tools Cybersecurity is a very broad field that concerns the (offensive and defensive) security of interconnected devices over a network or the internet. Different purposes are achieved with the use of tools. This comprehensive list briefly explains some very important tools using the first letter of their names with the letters of

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Top Five Skills you must have to be a Hacker

You there! You want to be skilled in the ways of 0s and 1s, solve problems, maybe even help your grandma with her phone :), but you are being discouraged by the monetary costs of gaining this knowledge, I understand how it can be, but, the World Wide Web is the biggest collection of information

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CYSEC NG Community Registration

CYSEC NG has launched its cybersecurity community that connects Nigeria’s best and brightest to the cyber security industry, create an enabling platform for skill acquisition, youth empowerment, and local content development in the area of information and cyber security. CYSEC NG Community is open to Students, Corp members, Professionals and Non-professionals and anyone who has

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CYSEC NG Virtual Internship

CYSEC NG virtual internship is for those who wants to gain more skilled knowledge and to prove themselves in area of cyber security. This internship is meant for people who have zero knowledge in Information Security. What we are doing We are creating and enabling platform for skill acquisition, youth empowerment and local content development

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40 CYSEC NG HACKERS COVERGE FOR MTN TELCO HACK DAY 2019

Bet y’all didn’t know we had ethical hackers community in Naija by CYSEC NG! Now you do. It was an awesome time over the weekend for the first and largest convergence of 40 hackers and computer geeks across the 6 geopolitical zones in Nigeria participated in a 4 hours long blackbox vulnerability assessment and penetration

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Team OXD Emerges 2018 Ultimate CYSECA in National Cybersecurity Hackathon

The Cyber Security Challenge Nigeria (CYSEC NG), a Non-Governmental Organisation (NGO) in its bid to consolidate on efforts to forestall the high rate of incidences of cyber-attacks affecting the globe and Nigeria inclusive, organized its Annual National Hacking and Cyber security conference, powered by Upgraded Era Solutions Limited – A Nigerian ICT and Cybersecurity Company.

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Women in Cybersecurity

At CYSEC NG, we believe that together we can make huge progress in achieving increased awareness, training, recruitment, retention and advancement of women in cybersecurity in Africa. Women participation in cybersecurity has not been impressive. There is a perception that the cybersecurity field is “techie” and therefore more suitable for men. No doubt, the field is

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CYSEC NG 2018: Call for Hacking Demonstration

Over the past decades, emerging technologies have driven an unprecedented transformation of finance around the world. In 2015, Africa began to witness a boom in FinTech and in the span of 3 years, the continent is home to over 300 startups. The bulk of these startups are in South Africa and West Africa; with FinTech

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