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In an effort to propel women into leadership roles within West and Central Africa's maritime security sector, the Kofi Annan International Peacekeeping Training Centre (KAIPTC) in partnership with the Ministry of Transport of Cameroon has launched a Code of Practice aimed to address the gender gaps in the sector.

CYBERSECURITY service business Sophos Computer Securities (SCS) Pte. Ltd. announced that it found that telemetry logs—user’s data like name and location—were missing in nearly 42 percent of the attack cases the firm studied. In 82 percent of these cases, cybercriminals disabled or wiped out the telemetry to hide their tracks,…

The GCSP’s Global Leadership Scholarship 2023/2024 for Female Peace & Security Practitioners from Developing Countries (Funded to Geneva, Switzerland)

In an interview, Terence Gomes, country head, security, Microsoft India, spoke about the difference generative AI can make in cybersecurity.

Security Practitioners to Create Standardized Approach for Representing Cyber Threat Actor Behaviors in a Sharable Format

Three best practices to ensure business continuity and minimize data loss following a ransomware attack.

(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The United States Secretary of State, Antony Blinken, has said America is keenly waiting for the federal and Lagos State governments to take action on the report of the judicial panel of inquiry, which probed the alleged killing of #EndSARS protesters by soldiers and policemen on the night of October 20, 2020 […]

Punch Newspapers Sections Afeez Hanafi Wednesday, July 22, 2020 will linger in the minds of workers at a pharmaceutical store on Old Ife Road, Ibadan, Oyo State. Around 8.40pm on that day, two robbers captured in a four-minute Closed Circuit Television footage had stormed the facility. In a split second, one of them – a tall young man in an overall black sportswear – brought out a gun tucked in the inner pocket of his clothes while the other, clad in black jean trousers and a white T-shirt,...