Managing Director of Galaxy Backbone Ltd., Prof. Ibrahim Adeyanju has disclosed that the company tackled about 27 million cyber attacks on its facilities during the 2023 General Election.
TheNewsGuru.com (TNG) reports Prof. Adeyanju to have made this disclosure when the Director General of the Voice of Nigeria (VON), Malam Jibrin Baba-Ndace, paid him a courtesy visit on Friday in Abuja.
Adeyanju said that the organisation prides itself as a state of the art cyber security operation centre, that defends the cyber space of the Nigerian government.
“We participate in defending Nigeria in the cyber space. Even the days of election and collation of 2023 election results, we had 27 million attacks within a single day.
“Before the election, we had a maximum of 50,000 attacks. So, having close to 30 million attacks in a single day showed that something serious was happening.
“They did not succeed. There was nothing for them, because, our security operation centre was very effective in defending cyber attacks.
“Similarly, during the last protest that happened few weeks ago, we had spikes of attacks. We were not surprised because, before the protest, we heard in the news that the protest would be done both physically and online.
“So, there were a lot of online attacks, but we were able to survive, through our operation centre,” he said.
The Galaxy Backbone boss said that the organisation had a centre where it monitored all it networks in almost all States of the Federation.
Speaking, the VON DG, Baba-Ndace, said he was at Galaxy Backbone to deepen the relationship between VON and the organisation.
He requested for support and capacity building on ICT and cyber security for members of staff of VON, to enhance fact checking, protect its cyber space and address fake news.
Baba-Ndace also assured of projecting the good works of Galaxy Backbone and the Renew Hope Agenda of President Bola Tinubu, in eight different languages to the world.
The languages, he said, include Hausa, Yoruba, Igbo, Fufulde, English, French, Arabic and Swahili.