A Nigerian team of cyber security professionals
“TeamNaija” will be representing Africa in this year’s
Cyberlympics event happening at Washington, DC. 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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