Nigeria To Fly African Flag At Global Cyberlympics

A Nigerian Team of cyber security professionals “TeamNaija” will be representing the African continent at Washington, DC in this year’s Cyberlympics event. The team is made up of Wale Obadare (Digital Encode), Uchenna Aka (FirstBank), David Abolusoro (FirstBank), Rotimi Akinyele (BDO UAE), Bimbo Jaiyeola (Union bank) and the team captain Oluseyi Akindeinde (Digital Encode).

Global Cyberlympics is a hands on cyber security team game sport that brings together the best ethical hackers from around the world to compete in a series of Forensics, Penetration testing, Computer Network Defense, and Capture the Flag Challenges. This year’s competition was full of intrigues as the participants were given hardened systems to break into and other complex tasks to complete within limited time.

The teams had to go through 3 rounds while the number of teams proceeding to the next stage kept reducing until the end of the Final round where TeamNaija emerged first and another Nigerian Team Hawx came second. Judging was based on the speed at which systems were hacked, the number of vulnerabilities found and the techniques used to uncover them.

TeamNaija had competed in 2012 and represented the continent at the world Finals in Miami where they had a very good outing.
The team has since then, built capacity over the years to world standard with the ability to match the skills of the best in the field.
Among the 6 team members, they have over 50 IT Certifications which include CISSP, CCNP, OSCP, ISO 27001:LI, PCIP, PCI-ISA, SECURITY +, CSA, MSA, C|EH, E|CSA, L|PT, eCPPT, FBCS, ECSP, CHFI, CITP, CCNA,CCDP,CCIE(written),SNAA,QCS, ISO 20000:LA, ISO27001:LA, ISO 22301:LA, PCIQSA, COBIT 5 ASSESSOR, MCSE and CRISC, to mention a few.

A member of the team, Rotimi Akinyele, who currently works with BDO UAE, and consults for UAE government entities, said despite competing against the best-of-the-best in the whole world, the team was very confident of winning and returning as champions.


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nerds Olympics

They most probably will lose.

Teempakguy:
They most probably will lose.

My Brother no talk o...50 IT CERTIFICATES no be here o... are these guys in Nigeria or they were all Outside the country before now?

impactz:

My Brother no talk o...50 IT CERTIFICATES no be here o... are these guys in Nigeria or they were all Outside the country before now?

Nigerian born and bred

hacking olmpics?abeg na when them go begin yahoo yahoo olmpics make i apply

Cool, how did they make the decision to use these guys to represent us? Did they do it on a school basis?

I always say it to whoever that cares to listen that this path is the future....now imagine,hackers that before now people were very afraid of are getting accommodating into us....

HOW DO YOU THINK THEY'LL BE ACCEPTED TOMORROW

One day, there might be YAHOOLYMPICS

Wow! Hacker Olympics. Let me inform my cousin who hacked the US Defence networks.

Meanwhile, up Teamnaija

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Team Hawx is made up solely of the CyberSecurity team of Akintola Williams Deloitte and I think this team even qualified ahead of TeamNaija.

Teempakguy:
They most probably will lose.

why

Hope seun is going?

Make us proud y'all

They will surely make us proud IJN



All the best

ok

Haahhaha.

I will hack them @ the Olympics.

And they forgot to include me? Hmmm

Great
- no one from Zenith Bank
- no one from Google Nigeria
- no one from CWG
- no one from MTN
- no one from GLO
- no one from MainOne
- no one from Nairaland

Hackers...good occupation

Is there a corruption olympic.im sure nigeria will top the medals table

Only those in love with IT and mostly people outside Nigeria will understand all those qualifications... That CCIE exam is suicidal, 6 straight hours Lab exam and the fee aint smiling. Great to see this people being recognized.

I stand to be corrected but with a CCIE certificate, you can NEVER NEVER and NEVER be unemployed.

baba11:
I always say it to whoever that cares to listen that this path is the future....now imagine,hackers that before now people were very afraid of are getting accommodating into us....

HOW DO YOU THINK THEY'LL BE ACCEPTED TOMORROW

This are certified ethical hackers and not those one's destroying the cyberspace. Anybody with ethical hacking certificates can easily be traced so you cant do thrash with your knowledge instead you are being employed as a security expert in top organizations that uses anything connected to the internet.

Do Naija proud guys!!!.......Leggo!!!

Ojestas:
One day, there might be YAHOOLYMPICS

Chai

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Nice one

Quite interesting

Whatever you find your hand doing, do it well!

Good luck guys, do us proud. Let the world know we can hack for the right reasons.

wow they should represent us well. Thought IT is for the young heart, this men old small