About to board a UN Helicopter for a mission for UN
Have just mapped some dates in 2019 to help the United Nations on some issues across Africa. I have been one of the lead experts helping some of our most vulnerable economies on many fronts.
It is an interesting Call to be asked to walk into a room with leaders of nations and architect decisions that would affect millions of people. Whenever the UN helicopter gets ready to uplift me, I always remind myself that a generation of boys and girls could be uplifted along.
I am very optimistic about this continent. I do hope you are. Our generation must fix any challenge here. We need DO-TANKS and no more THINK-Tanks.
In this extremely troubling piece, Bloomberg explains why hardware attacks are more dangerous than your software attacks. The information warfare is on, whether Nigeria is prepared or not.
To help with due diligence, AWS, which was overseeing the prospective acquisition, hired a third-party company to scrutinize Elemental’s security, according to one person familiar with the process. The first pass uncovered troubling issues, prompting AWS to take a closer look at Elemental’s main product: the expensive servers that customers installed in their networks to handle the video compression. These servers were assembled for Elemental by Super Micro Computer Inc., a San Jose-based company (commonly known as Supermicro) that’s also one of the world’s biggest suppliers of server motherboards, the fiberglass-mounted clusters of chips and capacitors that act as the neurons of data centers large and small. In late spring of 2015, Elemental’s staff boxed up several servers and sent them to Ontario, Canada, for the third-party security company to test, the person says.
Nested on the servers’ motherboards, the testers found a tiny microchip, not much bigger than a grain of rice, that wasn’t part of the boards’ original design. Amazon reported the discovery to U.S. authorities, sending a shudder through the intelligence community. Elemental’s servers could be found in Department of Defense data centers, the CIA’s drone operations, and the onboard networks of Navy warships. And Elemental was just one of hundreds of Supermicro customers.
During the ensuing top-secret probe, which remains open more than three years later, investigators determined that the chips allowed the attackers to create a stealth doorway into any network that included the altered machines. Multiple people familiar with the matter say investigators found that the chips had been inserted at factories run by manufacturing subcontractors in China.
It is time for the Nigerian military to help secure the intellectual properties in Nigeria. Nigerian firms are not well resourced to handle these existential risks. Yes, the military must take over and secure our cyberspace.
Today, Prof Ndubuisi Ekekwe (Chairman, Fasmicro Group) with the Pro Chancellor & Chairman of Council, Obafemi Awolowo University (Dr Yemi Ogunbiyi); Vice Chancellor, OAU (Prof EO Ogunbodede); GMD Troyka Group (Jimi Awosika); COO Academy Halogen (Dr Wale Adeagbo).
It was a moment having a small company I created few years ago becoming part of history. And the good Lord continuing His promise that favor comes unbounded.
I just arrived at Halogen Academy, Ikeja Lagos. Here are some photos from Obafemi Awolowo University Center of Excellence program at Halogen Academy. The event is geared towards reaching the industry under the World Bank Center of Excellence initiative. Facyber (First Atlantic Cybersecurity Institute) is a solution partner to Halogen Academy and I will be speaking in coming hours. The press is here and the drums are beating. It is a cyber-party here.
The weather looks great today. I am wishing you a wonderful day at work. Go out there and fix a core market friction not just by focusing on meeting the needs of your customers but their expectations and perceptions. Make them Customers and not just consumers. By elevating the game of meeting their perceptions, you would create a category-king business, creating a new basis of competition which could potentially transform our nation via disruptions. Make it Happen and create a Perception Demand.
Perception Demand is very risky: you think without much learning curves decoupled from aligning scaling and market demand. But when you add “Stimulating” before it, you have a construct, Stimulating Perception Demand, which focuses on existing trajectories in the markets and how to take them to the next level, and around there massively get many fans to connect. Here, you have seen how the products in the markets are doing. You just want to take them to the next level. The product operates at perception level, but even with that, you must stimulate demand at new heights
