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Profile of a White Hat

Victor F. Olofinlade,

Chief Information Security Officer @Payflo Victor Olofinlade is a Pen-tester, Forensics expert, and cybersecurity Intelligenceprofessional.In2018,Victor Olofinlade was among the team of home groomed professionals that represented Nigeria at the Global Cyberlympics competition. The team to which he featured is an elite white hat hackersgroup,knownasNaijaSecForce

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AttheGlobalCyberlympics,Victor,andhisteam wereabletoputNigeriaonthemapbytakingthe 8th position Globally. Even in the face of fierce competition Victor and his collogues defeated other teams from Egypt, Morocco, Kenya, Sudan,andGhanatoclingthetopspotinAfrica. They were subsequently selected to represent theAfricanContinentatthefinals,whichheldon September,2018inAtlantaGA,USA

Victor is a researcher, Dev-ops Engineer with specialties in setting up an IntelligenceDriven Security Operation Centre(SOC). He wears multiple hats (red, blue & purple) to protect organization's most treasured IT assets. His foray into cyber may have been inspired by a youthful movie named '24' . I wanted to be like one of the movie's main character he said. Referring to Chloe O'Brien Victor aspired to write programing codes. His first job interview would later be Java Developer, then subsequently he opted to become a researcher at a Federal University in Nigeria..

Victor holds an Executive Cert from MIT Sloan School of Management, also has bagged Professional Program cert at New York University,andHarvardUniversity. He holds a double Master's at EURECOM, and Télécom Paris as well as a Bachelor of Technology at Federal University of Technology Akure.,Nigeria.

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