Akano Victoria Adebimpe2025-06-242025-06-242019Akano, V.A. (2019). Cyber-Security of Higher Institution Web Portals in Nigeria. Crawford Journal of Natural & Applied Sciences. 1; 245-251.https://repository.crawforduniversity.edu.ng/handle/123456789/310Every institutional web portal should be treated as a “jewel in a crown”. The reason for this cannot be far-fetched in that, each institution has two basic assets to guard jealously, which is the identity of the university and its clienteles. The drive for this research on institutional portals can be attributed to the fact that the portal serves as the first point of entry in most cases to the clienteles in order to provide essential information and application resources in a secured, consistent and reliable mode. However, this treasure chest of high value information is vulnerable in most cases to cyber-attacks resulting from unintended disclosure of vitals through phishing, improper use of social media and supposed availability of services. There is therefore the need to do a better job not only of bolstering network defenses against cyber-attacks, but also of raising awareness of basic cyber security hygiene among the full spectrum of IT users: the university and its clienteles. This study gives different approaches on tools, tactics and procedures of minimizing the number of compromised networks and stolen data.enArticle