APPRAISING THE WORKABILITY OF THE NATIONAL CYBER SECURITY POLICY AND STRATEGY DOCUMENT 2021

Abstract

There is an on-going rat race between law-making bodies and tech-companies on how to effectively keep the activities of modern technologies and daily advancement in the internet within the ambits of the law. The efforts by legislative draughtsmen to make up to date, watertight laws, which encompasses the ever spreading tentacles of e-commerce, e-business, online identity, and critical issues bothering on technology cannot be over emphasized. With a deluge of policy documents, guidelines and legal frameworks and just recently, the signing by the Nigerian President of the National Cyber-Security policy document 2021, the Nigerian government like every other nation has not rested on its oars in their efforts to ensure that matters bothering on the Nation`s Cyber security are nipped on the bud. The Nigerian government once again, in a pro-active step through this 2021 policy document, takes a look into the future and addresses foreseeable challenges which may overawe the state and proffering either medium or long term solutions to these issues. The aim of this paper is to conduct a holistic review of the 2021 Cyber security policy framework, appraising several efforts of the government from 1999 till date, and critically analysing this policy document with a view to unravelling the progress made so far.