How we tackled over 27m cyber attacks during 2023 election - Galaxy Backbone boss

Left: Galaxy Backbone boss, Prof Adeyanju and the Director-General of Voice of Nigeria (VON), Malam Jibrin Baba-Ndace, during courtesy visit on Friday in Abuja.

By Collins Yakubu-Hammer

Prof Ibrahim Adeyanju, the Managing Director of Galaxy Backbone Ltd, has revealed that the company, through its state of the art security operation centre tackled over 27 million 27 million cyber attacks during the 2023 General Elections.

Adeyanju, who said the organisation has in place a state of the art security operation centre being used in defending the cyber space of government and Nigeria generally spoke when he received the received the Director-General of Voice of Nigeria (VON), Malam Jibrin Baba-Ndace, on a courtesy visit in his office on Friday in Abuja.

He said Galaxy Backbone was confident of the ability of the security operation centre which was also deployed to ward off cyber attacks during the recent protests in the country.

“We participate in defending Nigeria in a cyber space. Even the days of election and collation in 2023 election results, we had 27 million attacks within a single day.

“Before the election, we have 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.

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The Galaxy Backbone boss said that the organisation had a centre where it monitored all it networks in almost all states of the federation.

“In galaxy backbone we pride ourselves as the digital backbone of the nation. With the infrastructure that we control which we use to defend the cyber space on behalf of the government, we can always collaborate in the interest of the nation. he added.

Speaking, the VON DG, Ndace, said he came to the organisation to deepen the relationship between VON and Galaxy Backbone.

Ndace added that the media has a responsibility of telling the world the giant strides being achieved by the government its agencies like Galaxy Backbone.

Ndace therefore 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 include Hausa, Yoruba, Igbo, Fufulde, English, French, Arabic and Swahili.

“We have the responsibility of letting the world know the positive things that are happening in Nigeria including Galaxy Backbone. You mentioned some of the facilities like robust fiber optics cable in 28 states of Nigeria, Tier III and Tier IV data centres in Abuja and Kano that you have here in Galaxy Backbone. How many people know the place of Galaxy Backbone even in the continent of Africa? We need to tell our own stories.

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.

(NAN)

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