FUTA’s paper adjudged best at international conference on internet security

A paper authored by a team from the Federal
University of Technology Akure, FUTA, has been
adjudged the best presentation at the 8th
International Conference for Internet Technology
and Secured Transactions (ICITST-2013) held in
London, United Kingdom, in December 2013.
Entitled DGM Approach to Network Attacker and
Defender Strategies, the paper, which was
presented by Dr Kayode Alese, was co-authored by
himself, Iwasokun Gabriel Babatunde and Haruna
Danjuma Israel (all from the Department of
Computer Science, FUTA), beating 1,241 papers
received from 96 countries to emerge the overall
best according to the panel of assessors.
The paper, which was later adjudged as the best for
the year 2013, dwelt on novel strategies to
checkmate infiltrations of secured transactions on
the information super highway. A lot of uplifting
remarks from the international faculty went in
favour of the ambassadors of FUTA who presented
the award-winning paper.
Alese, who is the current Dean of Students Affairs,
said the general consensus at the conference was
that FUTA showed great strength in global
competitiveness through excellence in technological
advancement, learning and research.