This Competition seeks to promote cyber security awareness, competencies, and capabilities among Nigerian youths. The competition has also been designed to assist talented and result-oriented youths to grow and maximize their skills, for them to make an impact within the nation’s cybersecurity space.
With the necessary support infrastructure, Halogen in partnership with the Federal Ministry of Youths and Sports Development intends to use this initiative to create an enabling environment for young people to develop the capabilities to mitigate against cyber-attacks, thereby empowering them to maximize opportunities in cybersecurity space, within and outside Nigeria.
Topics Applicants Will Be Working On
Participants are to select one from the topics highlighted below.
Anti-Ransomware:
Build an Anti-Ransomware that can detect, decrypt and restore
Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA):
Build an MFA Software to address this issue, with features that cater to the unreliability/vulnerabilities of applications such as Google Authenticator, Authy, e.t.c
Fraud Detection:
Build a fraud detection software
Email Spam Detection:
Build an email spam filter
Intrusion Detection Systems:
Develop a system to spot malicious or unauthorized users on networks