The Vice Chancelor of the Ibrahim
Badamasi Babangida University, Lapai in Niger State, Professor Muhammad Nasir
Maiturare, today, Monday declared open the cyber security campaign in the
university hosted by the Cyber Security Experts Association of Nigeria (CSEAN),
reports ITRealms.
Disclosing this, CSEAN President, Mr.
Remi Afon, in a press statement made available to ITRealms, said that Maiturare
was joined during the occasion by CSEAN Vice President, Dr. Ismaila Idris who
led CSEAN’s Team to the event.
According to him, this heralds CSEAN’s
national cyber security awareness campaign targeted at universities and
anchored on “STOP THINK CONNECT” was held at the New Auditorium, opposite the
University Library.
He listed the aims of STOP-THINK-CONNECT
to include educating all Internet users in Nigeria to be practically safe
online and ensure that Internet safety is perceived as a shared responsibility
at homes, schools, workplaces, and communities.
In addition, he said, the campaign aims
at transforming the way the public and private sectors collaborate to make
cybersecurity a workaday reality.
CSEAN, he explained initially launched
STOP-THINK-CONNECT on January 2015 at association’s annual conference in Abuja
and has since been spreading the campaign through social media, symposium and
lectures in secondary schools and tertiary institutions across the country.
CSEAN intends to launch the campaign
in all tertiary institutions and secondary schools in Nigeria. The association
recently kick started the higher institution
campaign in two Federal Universities namely Federal University of
Technology Minna and University of Abuja and has lined up ten other
Universities for awareness campaign before the end of the year.
Afon pointed out that CSEAN is
presently partnering STOP-THINK-CONNECT; a first-ever global public awareness
campaign developed to help all Internet users keep their data, personal
information, communications, and transactions safer and more secure online.
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