Directorate of Cyber Security
The Directorate of Cyber Security DCyber is mandated to Defend the Nation against cyber Attack of Significant consequence, Monitor and Defend MoD,DHQ,AFN and other sister security agencies networks and Provide needed cyber effects in support of combat forces through R&D.
Director of Cyber Security
Rear Admiral SA Yahaya was admitted into the Nigerian Defence Academy as a member of 42 Regular Course on 17 August 1990 and commissioned a Sub-Lieutenant on 16 September 1995 into the Nigerian Navy. He is a specialist Weapons Electrical Engineer, and the senior officer holds a Bachelor of Engineering degree, a master’s in international Affairs and Defence Studies including a Master of Strategy and Development Studies. The senior officer has served in various capacities and has held numerous appointments afloat and ashore in the Nigerian Navy, tri-Service institutions and internationally. Some of these include Instructor and Electrical Maintenance Officer at the Nigerian Naval College, ONNE and Officer-in-Charge, Fleet Support Unit, DELTA. He has acted as the Director Weapon Engineering at the Naval Headquarters including being the Director Air Engineering. He was also the Fleet Support Maintenance Officer/Executive Officer and acting Commander, Fleet Support Group WEST. He was at different times a Directing Staff and later Chief Instructor at the Armed Forces Command and Staff College, Nigeria. He was also the Deputy Chief CIMIC at the United Nations Mission in Liberia and was the Commandant, Nigerian Navy Engineering College. Other appointments have included being a Directing Staff at the Air Force War College, Nigeria, and the National Defence College (NDC), Nigeria. Also, held the Director Academic Research and Analytical Support at the NDC and is currently the Director Cybersecurity in Defence Space Administration. Rear Admiral Yahaya is a member of the Council for the Regulation of Engineering in Nigeria, Nigerian Society of Engineers and the Nigerian Institute of Management. He enjoys reading, travelling, and watching movies. He is married to Mrs Maimuna Yahaya and the union is blessed with children.
Chronicle of Directors
About the Directorate
The Directorate of Cyber Security (DCyber) was established at DSA in 2015 to pioneer cyber security related activities in the AFN. It is headed by a Director with 3Deputy Directors in Response, Protection and Research & Development.
Roles
a. Prevent and give early warnings on cybersecurity breaches.
b. Analyze and react to incident of cyber breaches.
c. Detect and identify new technical forms of cyber threats.
d. Operate the Defence Computer
Emergency Response Team (CERT)and
the fusion center.
e. Defend AFN critical infrastructure
f. Research, develop and implement cybersecurity requirements, innovation and programs.
g. Launch cyber attacks with capacity to deceive, deny, disrupt and destroy if necessary information and systems of the adversaries.
Achievements
a. Identification of cyber threat actors in various AFN theatres of operations.
b. Proactive identification and mitigation of various cyber threats targeted at the Armed Forces of Nigeria digital infrastructure, including CNII.
c. Development of cybersecurity tools in support of the AFN.
d. Development of cybersecurity awareness publications for the AFN and security agencies of Nigeria.
e. Conduct of CERT drills and cybersecurity awareness training, including seminars and workshops for the AFN and other security and law enforcement agencies in Nigeria.
f. Winner of the hackathon contest organized for security and law enforcement agencies by Global Accelerex in 2018.
