The Managing Director of Galaxy Backbone Ltd., Prof. Ibrahim Adeyanju, has said the company tackled about 27 million cyber attacks on its facilities during the 2023 general elections.

Mr Adeyanju made this known, when the Director-General of Voice of Nigeria, Jibrin Baba-Ndace, paid him a courtesy visit on Friday in Abuja.

Mr Adeyanju said that the organisation prided itself as the state of the art security operation centre, which it used to defend the cyberspace of the government.

“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 against cyber attacks. Similarly, during the last protest that happened a 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.’’

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

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

He requested support and capacity building on ICT and cyber security for members of staff of VON, to enhance fact-checking, protect its cyberspace and address fake news.

Mr Ndace also assured of projecting the good works of Galaxy Backbone and the Renewed Hope Agenda of President Bola Tinubu, in eight different languages to the world.

The languages include Hausa, Yoruba, Igbo, Fulfulde, English, French, Arabic and Swahili.

(NAN)