Many organisations are currently battling to avoid being a statistic of cyber crime in the region. In this regard, Olumide Longe Babatope, a reknown security expert, together with a group of local security experts, will steer an  International Cyber Security workshop on the 25th and 26th of August 2011 in Nairobi at the Sarova Panafric Hotel.

Organized by SavvyAfrica in partnership with Information Systems Audit and Control Association (ISACA), Kenya chapter, the cyber security workshop aims to address threats that originate from cyber crime using appropriate international policies and legislation that govern this type of criminal offence.  The workshop aims to delve into the causes and types of cyber crime, explores the options and tools available for the apprehension of cyber criminals and discusses how to treat such cases from a global perspective.

In addition, the workshop is designed to sound an alarm on new cyber security priorities and how to apprehend these criminals. It will also cover forensic investigations to be applied when profiling cyber criminals and how the public and private sector should collaborate to prevent cyber crime.

Olumide, with a group of local security experts will address issues that organizations should implement to avoid risk exposure, which include exposure to finance losses, damage to the brand and data breach liabilities due to cybercrime.

With the internet presence and unsecured networks all over our devices, cyber criminals gain undetected access and silently remain present for a long period in our IT environments. On the other side we take false security covers driven by non – agile security tools and assume loops holes which highly pose threats to our systems.

Olumide lectures at the University of Ibadan, Nigeria Department of Computer Science. His PhD research at the Department of Computer Science, University of Benin City focused on the design and implementation of an outbound anti-spam system for filtering fraudulent. He is an Associate Director of the Institute for Cyber Security and Allied Research at the International Center for Information Technology and Development (ICITD), College of Business, Southern University, Baton Rouge, Louisiana.