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Building Nigeria’s Secure Software Future

The National Application Security Conference — where engineers, not marketers, set the agenda. Two days of live-fire exercises, real exploits, and the code that defends against them.

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Why Application Security
Is the Frontline

Nigeria’s fintech & software exports are growing faster than its secure-engineering talent pipeline.
73%
of Nigerian fintech breaches trace to insecure application code
2.1x
growth in software exports vs. secure-engineering hires since 2023
340+
engineers expected across two days of hands-on labs
#1
ambition: Africa's premier engineering-driven AppSec conference
● LIVE SOFTWARE SUPPLY CHAIN ATTACK PATH
1
Compromised Dependency
A typosquatted npm package is published upstream.
2
CI Pipeline Executes It
Build step pulls the package with no lockfile verification.
3
Secrets Exfiltrated
Malicious postinstall script reads CI environment secrets.
4
Production Image Poisoned
Backdoored artifact is pushed to the production registry.

Two Worlds. One Conference.

Click The Arena & The Sandbox to explore every session format.

DA
Dr. Amaka Chukwu
CISO · Zenith Financial Group
Governance & Policy
TB
Tunde Bakare
Staff Security Engineer · Paystack
AppSec Engineering
IN
Ifeoma Nwosu
Head of DevSecOps · Interswitch
Cloud & DevSecOps
CO
Chidi Okafor
AI Security Researcher · Independent
AI & LLM Security
BA
Bisi Adeyemi
Principal Engineer · Flutterwave
Cloud & DevSecOps
KE
Kelechi Eze
Offensive Security Lead · ICSP
Offensive Security
GU
Grace Umeh
Security Architect · NITDA
Governance & Policy
FO
Femi Ogundipe
Founder · BreachLabs
AppSec Engineering
DA
Dr. Amaka Chukwu
CISO · Zenith Financial Group
Governance & Policy
TB
Tunde Bakare
Staff Security Engineer · Paystack
AppSec Engineering
IN
Ifeoma Nwosu
Head of DevSecOps · Interswitch
Cloud & DevSecOps
CO
Chidi Okafor
AI Security Researcher · Independent
AI & LLM Security
BA
Bisi Adeyemi
Principal Engineer · Flutterwave
Cloud & DevSecOps
KE
Kelechi Eze
Offensive Security Lead · ICSP
Offensive Security
GU
Grace Umeh
Security Architect · NITDA
Governance & Policy
FO
Femi Ogundipe
Founder · BreachLabs
AppSec Engineering

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