FORCEPOINT UNVEILS CBC AS NIGERIA PARTNER, HARPS ON HUMAN-CENTRIC APPROACH TO CYBERSECURITY
FORCEPOINT
UNVEILS CBC AS NIGERIA PARTNER, HARPS ON HUMAN-CENTRIC APPROACH TO
CYBERSECURITY
With Nigeria
said to have lost $450 million to cybersecurity breaches in 2017, a leading
global private cyber security company, Forcepoint, has called for a
human-centric approach to cybersecurity by private organisations and
governments.
Speaking through its Regional Manager for Sub Saharan Africa, Mr Christo Van
Staden, at the official unveiling of CBC EMEA as its Nigeria partner, held at
Four Points by Sheraton, Lagos, Forcepoint said the new cybersecurity approach
had become imperative because the cybersecurity world had become “more complicated
now than it’s ever been.”
Van Staden
maintained that there had arisen the need for a new paradigm of human-centric
cybersecurity, which he said is risk-adaptive and centres on understanding
human behaviour, adding that Forcepoint “helps its clients to increase their
security effectiveness” through its designed Human Point System that “gives
clients risk-adaptive security.”
At the
event, which had in attendance the president/Group Managing Director of CBC, Mr
Foluso Falaye, some members of staff and selected clients, Van Staden
maintained that with the fact that data can now be stored and accessed from
anywhere, with too many point solutions without unified security policy and an
enforcement that is manual, reactive and too late, Forcepoint has come to the
market “with effective visibility, integrated system, alert efficacy and
dynamic enforcement.”
Speaking on
behalf of the CBC EMEA’s chairman/CEO, Mr Gbade Alabi, Falaye expressed
confidence that the partnership between Forcepoint and his company would bring
about great impact in the cyber security market and also ensure the
satisfactions of their customers.