The Nigerian policy on critical information infrastructure

The relevance of critical information infrastructure is crucial to every nation. The National Critical Information Infrastructure (NCII) of Nigeria consists of critical national resources requiring the protection of the law, and the national security services. Any attack on the information resourc...

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Main Authors:	Saulawa, Mu'azu Abdullahi, Abdul Ghani Azmi, Ida Madieha, Zulhuda, Sonny, Ismail, Suzy Fadhilah
Other Authors:	Ismail, Maimunah
Format:	Conference or Workshop Item
Language:	English
Published:	Universitas Muhammadiyah Yogyakarta 2017
Subjects:	KZ Law of Nations
Online Access:	http://irep.iium.edu.my/14246/ http://irep.iium.edu.my/14246/ http://irep.iium.edu.my/14246/1/14246_The%20Nigerian%20policy%20on%20critical%20information.pdf

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spelling	iium-142462017-05-02T08:32:32Z http://irep.iium.edu.my/14246/ The Nigerian policy on critical information infrastructure Saulawa, Mu'azu Abdullahi Abdul Ghani Azmi, Ida Madieha Zulhuda, Sonny Ismail, Suzy Fadhilah KZ Law of Nations The relevance of critical information infrastructure is crucial to every nation. The National Critical Information Infrastructure (NCII) of Nigeria consists of critical national resources requiring the protection of the law, and the national security services. Any attack on the information resources of a nation would definitely damage the wider national resources as well the economy. Attacks on the NCII were commonplace and directed at information communication technology systems, which are critical infrastructures and fundamental for the operation of the wider national infrastructure. The objectives of the paper are to examine the provisions of the NCII under the Nigerian Cybercrime Act 2015, to examine the relevant attacks on the Nigerian NCII and few cyber activities relating to fraud. The problems of Nigeria in relation to cybercrimes are the implementation of the law, management of its operation and special prosecutors. The methodology adopted is doctrinal approach by examining the primary and secondary data, the statutes, case report and few responses from the interviews conducted. The findings of the paper reveal that the Nigerian Cybercrime Act 2015 has adequately addressed cybercrimes, but requires some amendments, particularly in the context of cyber warfare in relation to NCII. The paper recommends that the country should embark on public enlightenment on the danger of these attacks. Universitas Muhammadiyah Yogyakarta Ismail, Maimunah M.Osman Ghani, Aahad 2017 Conference or Workshop Item PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://irep.iium.edu.my/14246/1/14246_The%20Nigerian%20policy%20on%20critical%20information.pdf Saulawa, Mu'azu Abdullahi and Abdul Ghani Azmi, Ida Madieha and Zulhuda, Sonny and Ismail, Suzy Fadhilah (2017) The Nigerian policy on critical information infrastructure. In: International Conference on Law and Society 6 (ICLAS 6), 4th-7th April 2017, Yogyakarta, Indonesia. http://iclas6.umy.ac.id/
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spellingShingle	KZ Law of Nations Saulawa, Mu'azu Abdullahi Abdul Ghani Azmi, Ida Madieha Zulhuda, Sonny Ismail, Suzy Fadhilah The Nigerian policy on critical information infrastructure
description	The relevance of critical information infrastructure is crucial to every nation. The National Critical Information Infrastructure (NCII) of Nigeria consists of critical national resources requiring the protection of the law, and the national security services. Any attack on the information resources of a nation would definitely damage the wider national resources as well the economy. Attacks on the NCII were commonplace and directed at information communication technology systems, which are critical infrastructures and fundamental for the operation of the wider national infrastructure. The objectives of the paper are to examine the provisions of the NCII under the Nigerian Cybercrime Act 2015, to examine the relevant attacks on the Nigerian NCII and few cyber activities relating to fraud. The problems of Nigeria in relation to cybercrimes are the implementation of the law, management of its operation and special prosecutors. The methodology adopted is doctrinal approach by examining the primary and secondary data, the statutes, case report and few responses from the interviews conducted. The findings of the paper reveal that the Nigerian Cybercrime Act 2015 has adequately addressed cybercrimes, but requires some amendments, particularly in the context of cyber warfare in relation to NCII. The paper recommends that the country should embark on public enlightenment on the danger of these attacks.
author2	Ismail, Maimunah
author_facet	Ismail, Maimunah Saulawa, Mu'azu Abdullahi Abdul Ghani Azmi, Ida Madieha Zulhuda, Sonny Ismail, Suzy Fadhilah
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author	Saulawa, Mu'azu Abdullahi Abdul Ghani Azmi, Ida Madieha Zulhuda, Sonny Ismail, Suzy Fadhilah
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title	The Nigerian policy on critical information infrastructure
title_short	The Nigerian policy on critical information infrastructure
title_full	The Nigerian policy on critical information infrastructure
title_fullStr	The Nigerian policy on critical information infrastructure
title_full_unstemmed	The Nigerian policy on critical information infrastructure
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publisher	Universitas Muhammadiyah Yogyakarta
publishDate	2017
url	http://irep.iium.edu.my/14246/ http://irep.iium.edu.my/14246/ http://irep.iium.edu.my/14246/1/14246_The%20Nigerian%20policy%20on%20critical%20information.pdf
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