Cyber Intelligence and Internal Security in Nigeria

This chapter provides use case definition of the term Cyber Intelligence with proper clarification of terminologies, and then establishment of domains for intelligence gathering within the cyberspace. The author provided a theoretical integration of cyber intelligence as a domain of operational cyber warfare for law enforcement agencies and military, with recommended strategic policies, and frameworks that should be implemented to be able to clearly establish a nation’s cyber intelligence operations and defend its cyberspace from threat actors. Using Nigeria as a reference points, the author established policies in Nigeria that have been implemented, and Acts that have been passed into Law by the Nigeria National Assembly. Also the author identified loopholes in some of these policies and Acts that were designed to help defends the cyberspace domain of territories from external interest.