Organised by the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC), the Africa Digital Forensics Challenge 2021 brought together 282 participants from 29 African countries, including 24 Beninese.
Organised by the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC), the Africa Digital Forensics Challenge 2021 brought together 282 participants from 29 African countries, including 24 Beninese.
The main objective of the event was to challenge African technical experts in digital forensics, giving them the chance to compete against one another and test their knowledge. This opportunity allowed participants from different countries to get to know each other and competitors from the same country to work together. Thus, over four weeks, Charli AGOSSOU, Junias BONOU, Bernardin TONOUDJI, Ezéckiel DADJO and Raymond SODJI, all from bjCSIRT, under the supervision of their manager, solved the various challenges covering:
- Disk Analysis;
- RAM;
- Networking;
- Android.
In the final count, they took the top five (05) places in the challenge out of the ten (10) participants recognised by the organisers.
Following their success in winning first prize in the cybersecurity competition at DEVChampions in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso, this new distinction confirms the momentum currently under way in Benin in cybersecurity, driven by the Ministry of Digital Affairs and Digitalisation and the National Information Systems Security Agency (ANSSI Benin).