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  Success Damian: Fifth from left, Coordinating Managing Director, TD, Mrs. Chioma Chimere;   Regional Sales Director, North West Africa, Vertiv, Wojtek Piorko; Group Executive Director, TD, Mr. Stanley Okpalaeke and partners at the Vertiv/TD partnership Launch in Lagos. Vertiv, formerly Emerson Network Power, has fortified its partnership with foremost Information and Communication Technology (ICT) distributors, Technology Distributions Ltd. (TD). The alliance which aims to act as a meeting point between ICT   resellers seeking UPS reliability and protection for their customer’s sensitive IT equipment has been described as a strategic move leveraging on the strength of TD’s turn-key support capabilities and understanding of their customer’s needs. Under the partnership, TD will deliver Vertiv's uninterruptible power systems (UPS), power distribution units (PDU), racks and accessories, coupled with an unprecedented level of specialist consultancy and a...

Success Damian: Chief Technology Officer (CTO), Digital Encode, Seyi Akindeinde has described free WiFi as the surest means for hackers to get access to people’s information. Akindeinde was speaking at NaijaSecCon'18 which took place at The Zone Centre, Gbagada, Lagos on Friday.   Delivering a paper titled “The Friendly Enemy: The Perils of Free WiFi”, Akindeinde said “There is the proliferation of Cyber hacks all over the place and one of the things we want to achieve is to know how these people carry out hacking? And we discover that it is the way a lot of people are connecting to free WiFi and then sending out their critical information. “And one of the things we wanted to achieve is to find out how easy hackers actually gain access to all these information as people log in to so many things from social media, online banking to even confidential information.” He said the presentation was mainly to teach people how they can protect themselves against those...

L-r, Member, Organising Commitee, Nurudeen Odeshina; Representative of the University of Southampton and sponsors of NaijaSecCon'18, Melissa Gibson; the Lead Convener, Rotimi Akinyele; Member of the organising committee, Debora Okwuzi and Representative of Esentry (sponsors), Funmipe Olofinade, at the 2018 NaijaSecCon'18 held at The Zone Centre, Gbagada, Lagos on Frida.  SUCCESS DAMIAN reports: Participants at the second edition of NaijaSecCon have been exposed to insights and discussions around malware analyses; cryptocurrency mining, USB forensics, digital forensics capabilities, programming and different topics around security. Speakers at the conference held in Lagos on Friday, May 4, 2018, are of the view that lack of education on technical aspects of Information Security could hurt the economy in the nearest future. Their unanimous views stem from the report which projects that the devastating effect of cyber-crime will cost about $6trillion by 2021. Th...