NIGERIA’S telecommunication and banking sectors are concerned about the lack of control in information technology, which if introduced, could minimise the incidences of cyber crime.
Nigeria’s president of EC-Council, Sanjay Bavisi, made the remarks recently, and warned that cyber crime was on the increase, especially in the banking and telecommunications sectors. He noted that urgent measures were required to curb such activities.
“Some companies have no IT policy and people can bring in dangerous tools into the company that could affect its smooth operations. Mobile phones also allow the use of any applications, and just allowing anybody to take in any mobile phone into a company could be dangerous because people could use mobile phones or digital devices, to install malicious software and steal data,” said Bavisi.
He also warned that there were some individual with advanced knowledge in mobile phones, bank operations and telecommunication systems, who then use their expertise to hack information and data for different purposes.
“I think Nigerian financial institutions have not really branded themselves as information security institutions,” he said.
Bavisi argued that Nigeria should come up with proper security in order to reduce cyber crimes, among them banking thefts and hacking of vital information about company security.
The warning comes shortly after revelations that more than 500 000 online bank credit cards and debit cards were destroyed by a virus believed to have been created by some computer experts in the country, a sad development that spread to the United Kingdom, America, Australia and Poland.
OKORO CHINEDU Nigeria
ITNewsAfrica.com
