Author: ITPulse

Appknox, an enterprise mobile application security solution built to secure businesses, their data and customers and its African partner, CED Technologies recently held a webinar with the ultimate aim of bringing Mobile App Security awareness to organizations in Africa. During the webinar with the theme “How an insecure mobile app can tarnish your company’s reputation”, which was well attended by stakeholders mostly from the financial institutions across Africa, Harshit Agarwal, the Co-founder and CEO of AppKnox, noted that the essence of the webinar is to encourage developers, security researchers and enterprises to build safe and secure mobile applications. “We want…

Technology company, Zoho is set to officially open its office in Lagos Nigeria with a special target to digitally transform the Small, Medium Enterprises in the country with what it tagged Zoho Africa Digital Enabler package. The company made the announcement today at a press conference, which happened on the sidelines of the company’s first user conference in Lagos. It also disclosed that the new office will be mostly occupied by local employees for customer-facing roles. “As part of ‘transnational localism’ strategy where our growth is underpinned with that of the region, we bring our global expertise to support the…

The Minister of Communications and Digital Economy, Prof Isa Pantami disclosed Nigeria has presently recorded over 85 million National Identification Numbers (NIN) across the industry. The Minister stated this when he met with the MTN Group Chairman, Mcebisi Jonas and President and CEO Ralph Mupita on the sidelines of the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM) in Kigali, Rwanda. According to Pantami, the NIN registration will serve as the foundation of the country’s digital economy, which he noted was beginning to scale. The MTN team met with the Minister to discuss developments in the telecoms sector in Nigeria, including the…

The Minister of Communications and Digital Economy, Prof. Isa Pantami has asserted that more than 90 percent of cyber breaches are caused largely to human error and social engineering. The Minister stated this at the Cyber Secure Nigeria Conference, organized by the Cyber Security Experts Association of Nigeria (CSEAN) in Abuja earlier this week. “More than 90% of cyber breaches are a result of human error, social engineering, or other errors. The more cyber-conscious we are; the fewer damages will occur,” he said. Prof. Pantami, who was represented at the conference by the Director-General of NITDA, Mal. Kashifu Inuwa, also…

Many Governors and agencies have continued to reiterate their commitment to Nigeria’s digital economy agenda being championed by the Ministry of Communications and Digital Economy. Some such Governors are Abdullahi Sule, Governor of Nasarawa, Babajide Sanwo-Olu of Lagos State, including the National Information Technology Development Agency. While speaking at the Future Summit, organised by Digivation Networks in Lagos, these Governors and organisations highlighted some of the activities they carried out in their own state to make sure the digital economy flies. With the theme: ‘Future Now’ they emphasise the need for digital skills. According to Mr. Olatubosun Alake, SA Innovation…

A new sectoral report by Sophos Global Survey has revealed an increase in the 94percent of Ramsomware attacks on healthcare organisations. The report ‘The State of Ransomware in Healthcare 2022’ indicates that in 2021, 66% of healthcare organizations were hit; 34% were hit the previous year. The silver lining, however, is that healthcare organizations are getting better at dealing with the aftermath of ransomware attacks, according to the survey data. The report shows that 99% of those healthcare organizations hit by ransomware got at least some of their data back after cybercriminals encrypted it during the attacks. Additional ransomware findings…

The Nigerian Communications Commission has today unveiled Reuben Muoka, an innovative journalist and consummate public relations practitioner, as its new Director of Public Affairs (DPA). Reunben will be taking over from Dr. Ikechukwu Adinde, who has assumed duties as the Director of Special Duties Department of the Commission. Until his appointment as Director of Public Affairs, Reuben was in 2021, appointed to head the Special Duties Department, which superintends the International Relations Unit; Emergency Communication Centres Unit; the Public-Private Partnership Unit; and the Security Services Unit of the Commission. He was promoted as Director of the Department before his current…

A report by the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) and the World Benchmarking Alliance (WBA) has shown that thirty-eight of the world’s 150 leading tech companies are on track to become carbon neutral by 2030, with several aiming to be carbon negative soon after. The new report, Greening digital companies: Monitoring emissions and climate commitments, argues that greenest tech firms pave way for sustainable future. The essence of the report is to encourage tech companies to adopt best practices, accelerate emissions reduction and “green” themselves to eliminate carbon-dioxide (CO2) and other GHG output from their operations. “Tech companies are an essential…

The number of data breaches in Russia accounts for 3.5M breaches in the first quarter of 2022, leapfrogging the United States of America with an 11 percent surge in the fourth quarter of 2021, a report from  CryptoMonday analysis has revealed. Sharing this in a statement, the CEO of CryptoMonday, Jonathan Merry attributed the surge of data breaches in Russia to the crisis with Ukraine.  “You can’t divorce Russia’s data breaching woes from its incursion into Ukraine. That action has earned it many enemies within the hacker community. These are targeting Russian “assets” in solidarity with the Ukrainian people. A…

A market intelligence report titled ‘Innovations in Digitizing Distribution of Health Products’ from Salient Advisory has rolled out seven key facts about the Nigeria health tech space. The report shows that Nigeria remains the key hub of digitized health product distribution – for example, innovators based in Nigeria have received 34.4% of total funding raised in the ecosystem within the last 12 months. Below are the facts: 67% of innovators based in Nigeria operate in both the rural and urban areas 18% of innovators are led by either an all-female founding team or a female founder Innovators in Nigeria raised…