‘TeamNaija’ Emerges Number One in Africa for Global Cyberlympics

A Nigerian Team of cyber security professionals “TeamNaija” will be representing the continent in this year’s Global Cyberlympics event in Washington DC, USA as Number One in Africa.

The team is made up of Adewale Obadare (Digital Encode), Uchenna Akajiuba (FirstBank), David Abolusoro (FirstBank), ,Bimbo Jaiyeola (Union bank), Rotimi Akinyele and the team captain is 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 had over 100 teams across Africa and 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.

TeamNaija had competed and won the Africa Regional Championship in 2012 and represented the continent at the world Finals in Miami where they had a very good outing.

Digital Encode has since then built the first privately owned Cyber security operations center where the team had built up 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 of  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.

Oluseyi Akindeinde,  team captain, said the team was confident of excelling at the Global CyberLympics and would champion causes for enhancing local capacity among youths upon its return.

Digital Encode is a purely a Nigerian Information Security consulting outfit that specializes in providing world class Cyber security, Governance, Risk and Compliance consulting services to organizations.