GENZIS EVENTS

JANUARY 2022

TITLE: WHY ARE YOU A TARGET TO HACKERS?

DATE: JANUARY 29th 2022
TIME: 4 PM-4:50 PM
PLATFORM: ZOOM ONLINE CALLS

AIM: UNDERSTANDING HACKERS INTEREST IN YOUR DEVICES AND DATA

LANGUAGE: ENGLISH

OBJECTIVES: By the end of this webinar, participants will be able to:

- Improve on their technical literacy
- Understand hackers motives and common goals
- Understand that any device or person is an asset to a hacker
- Understand how hackers can take control of their devices and data and maliciously use
them
- Understand how to protect themselves from this threat.

TARGET GROUP: Open to all youth aged from 15 to 25 and all businesses

NEED STATEMENT

GENZIS aims at promoting digital technologies in communities to create better awareness of

the opportunity and risks of technology. As we have previously carried out similar projects,
namely the Internet literacy webinar and the Leveraging my mailbox webinar that followed,
we are confident this more in-depth session will help many youths and/or organizations
understand why they could potentially be the target of a hacker.
Cyber awareness in Cameroonian communities remains very low. Many organizations believe
they are not at risk of any cyber attack since they assume they do not represent a big enough
fish for a hacker to ever mind them.
Thus, we observed general neglect of basic online safety measures both by youth and
organizations. Africa is currently putting everything in place to have a successful fourth industrial
revolution as prescribed by the Africa Union DIGITAL TRANSFORMATION STRATEGY FOR
AFRICA (2020 -2030). As such, it’s crucial for communities and organizations to understand
what risks we face or may already be dealing with right now as we are increasingly connected to
the internet and massively adopting its resources.

This short training will be emphasizing on why we don’t need to be a “huge deal” to be the target
of an attack. We will explore how hackers can use our data and resources to their advantage
and how to protect ourselves.

PROJECT DESCRIPTION

During the 50 min session, we will be exploring the following agenda below. Our speaker will be
Maxim Dongmo, Information system Ingenieur, CEO and Founder of GENZIS.

We will be partnering with the CYAA as we have generally worked together for community
projects.

N title Description

1 Presenting GENZIS & An introduction on GENZIS and the CYAA

the CYAA

2 Project overview Short reminder of what the project is and what are the main
goals

3 Hackers motives Most comment reasons why attackers target you

4 You may not be the - Understanding what makes you a potential target to
target. hackers:
- Why they could need to exploit your devices: botnets,
crypto miners

5 Understanding hacking Client data protection, competition, ignoring former employees

in our African context: that could harm your resources, opening several computers for
why a business should a botnet, good playground for emerging hackers.
protect themselves

6 How to protect yourself Antiviruses, firewall, regular auditing, being informed,

cryptography, filtering web contents and websites,
haveibeenpwned.com
AGENDA

Time Section speaker

4 pm - 4:05 pm Presenting GENZIS & the CYAA

4:05-4:10 Project overview

4:10 pm - 4:20 pm Hackers motives

4:20 pm - 4:30 pm You may not be the final target.

4:20 - 4:35 Understanding hacking in our African context: why a

business should protect themselves

4:35-4:40 How to protect yourself

4:40 - 4:50 Q&A

BUDGET:

Item Description Cost ($) Cost-share ($) Total ($)

Internet Internet 0 20 20
subscription for subscription for
research and research and
planning planning

Internet Internet 0 20 20
subscription for subscription for
event day event day

Internet Internet 0 10 10
subscription for subscription for
online online
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Zoom online We require a 149.90 0 149.90

subscription zoom room
setup on the KL
YES Account
for this project

TOTAL 149.90 50 199.90