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.

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