CYSEC-CON 2026 just opened submissions for something most tech events won’t touch: the Wall of Black Sheep, a call for the breaches, the near-misses, and the “unusual paths” that actually built Nigeria’s cybersecurity practitioners, not the polished LinkedIn version.
The categories on offer tell you what they’re really after: The Uncomfortable Truth. The Learning Scar. The Research Mind. The Next Threat. The Defender’s Diary. This isn’t a pitch deck showcase, it’s a signal-over-noise archive of what breaking systems and defending them actually looks like in practice.
At Techiesnode, the Wall of Black long argued that Africa’s tech narrative is over-indexed on wins and under-indexed on the operational scars that produce real competence. This initiative is doing exactly that for cybersecurity, treating the uncomfortable stories as infrastructure, not liability.
Submissions close October 10, 2026. If you’ve broken something, learned from it, or seen a threat before it had a name, the Wall wants it: Submit your story here https://twobs.cyseccon.com.ng
