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🇳🇬 West Africa · Data resident in Nigeria

Cybersecurity in Nigeria.

From the NDPA to the CBN's risk-based framework, Nigerian organizations face strict data-protection duties and a fast-rising threat of fraud, BEC and ransomware — especially across banking, fintech and government. WoneShield secures and makes them recoverable, sovereignly.

Nigeria · Cyber Risk Snapshot
Top threat
BEC / finan…
Key regulations
3
Data residency
In-country
Most-targeted sectors
Banking / Fintech
92%
Government
74%
Telecom
60%
Oil & Gas
52%
Business email compromise (BEC) and invoice fraudlive
Banking trojans and account takeover targeting fintechlive

Compliance

The regulations Nigerian organizations answer to.

NDPA 2023

Nigeria Data Protection Act

National data-protection law (with the NDPR); breach duties and penalties enforced by the NDPC.

CBN

CBN Risk-Based Cybersecurity Framework

Mandatory cybersecurity controls and incident reporting for banks and other financial institutions.

NITDA

NITDA guidelines

National IT development and security guidance for public and private bodies.

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Threat landscape

What Nigerian organizations are up against.

Business email compromise (BEC) and invoice fraud
Banking trojans and account takeover targeting fintech
Ransomware against financial and public-sector systems

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92%
Exposure score
Critical risk
Expected annual loss
₦4.1B
approx., based on industry benchmarks
More exposed than 80% of Nigerian financial services orgs.
Ransomware96
Phishing / BEC99
Data breach90
Downtime82
Applicable in Nigeria
NDPA 2023CBNNITDA
Breach-notification duties & penalties apply.
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