A compute expert at the University of Ilorin, Professor Rasheed Gbenga Jimoh has proffered a solution to ending cybercrime in Nigeria.
Jimoh who is with the varsity’s Department of Computer Science said that the implementation of biometric technology in public places will help in reducing cybercrime activities in the country.
The computer expert said this while delivering the 239th inaugural lecture of the University of Ilorin, on Thursday, at the main campus of the institution, titled ” Deconstructing The Crawling Mindsets: Combatting Security Challenges of Net-Centric Computing.”
He opined that students’ biometrics could easily be collected from the Joint Admission and Matriculation Board, JAMB’s Central Admission Processing Systems, according to Daily Post.
He said that it was time the nation woke up to the reality of moving on the fast lane with emerging technology.
“We must understand the reality that integration of ICT within a Net-Centric computing environment for seamless operations is not contestable unless we settle for crawling at a jet age with serious implications of not catching up with our competitors and the rest of the world.
“Thus, crawling in the digital era when the rest of the world is moving at a very fast pace can never be an acceptable option,” he declared.
He urged the government to find a way of eliminating or reducing the cybersecurity challenges in the nation.
“The option left to us is to wake up to the calls and find a way of eliminating or reducing the cybersecurity challenges associated with operations on the emerging Net-Centric computing environment through adoptions of information security management ethics and standards coupled with operations on the emerging Net-Centric computing environment through adoptions of information security management ethics and standards coupled with implementation of suitable cybersecurity technics capable of achieving reliable authentication, security risk mitigation, secured sharing of information and information resources, intrusion-free operations and integrity proven cyber activities.”
While stressing the need for aggressive awareness of the need for cultural adaptation to the emerging digital era with specific attention geared towards the use of the basic Nigerian languages, he urged relevant bodies to hire experts in the core areas of information and cybersecurity with adequate training and retraining given the dynamism of the discipline.
