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Hi5 Mac Partition recovery software – for Complete Data Recovery

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Deleted or lost partition recovery on Mac seems pretty difficult, but not for Mac Partition Recovery software. It is a very easy to use Partition Recovery tool that recovers data from formatted, corrupted, deleted and RAW partition without any glitches.  It works by performing a deep scan on the disk partition and fetches any missing, deleted or formatted drive partition data in no time.

There are many factors which lead to partition loss on Mac, such as malware attack, improper repartitioning, file system corruption, and many more. No matter how you lost partition on Mac, using this tool you can recover data from formatted mac hard drive in few mouse clicks.

The software lets you restore volume formatted with HFS and FAT file systems. The drive partitions that are inaccessible due to format/reformat errors, corruption, and other conflicts are well-handled by this program. You will just need to follow a simple set of procedure on Mac to bring back the partitions.

You can initially try demo version to evaluate capabilities of the Hi5 Partition Recovery Mac tool. It allows you to take benefits of all features in demo version except Save option. Install the software on your Mac and continue with the recovery process. Once you set up the Hi5 Partition Recovery software on your Mac OS X, you need to choose the type of recovery option and need to specify the storage drive from which file has to be recovered. The tool will then initiate to scan the drive and presents the partition data to preview. You can then activate the software to save all revived partitions to some safe location on your Macintosh.

Regardless of the file types say pictures, documents, spreadsheets, database and media stored on the partitions, the data restoration process is carried out. Alongside, the application could be run on all Mac OSX versions – Sierra, El Capitan, Yosemite, Mavericks, Mountain Lion and older versions. Besides this, another good thing is this program just not only works on Mac HD but also with external hard drives, Solid –State Drives (SSD), USB or Flash drives and so on.

It’s absolutely safe, secure and worth application that any user can use to do partition data recovery with a greater ease. Therewith, you need not be a professional expert to run this program on Mac. In case, if you have any query relating the tool, you can always get through with chat/email or call the technical team all over 24/7. To get a detailed description regarding the tool and its usage, you can refer this link – http://www.hi5software.com/

Hi5 Mac Partition Recovery runs on MacBook Pro, MacBook Air, Mac Mini, iMac etc. I used this tool on my MacBook and was successful enough to get back drive partitions in a hassle-free way. Thereby, I recommend to go with this app if you too are a victim of partition loss disasters on the storage drive.

 

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The Important But Forgotten Software Type in Africa

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Ndubuisi Ekekwe
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If you ever have to design chips, you must write software which will make it possible for the hardware to link to software. There are many levels of this software. You have the BIOS (software stored on a small memory chip on the motherboard that enables our computer systems to start when turned on, loosely the firmware for input and output in our computing systems), which is the elemental software that enables microprocessors to boot up before they handshake to other software. From the BIOS, you get to the operating systems like Windows before you can get to applications like Microsoft Office.

If you are making sensors like webcams you need to make firmware that will make it possible for the hardware to be recognized by another level of software. This is the most important part of technology industry because if you cannot get this working, everything built on top will crash. In short, you cannot even build anything because you will have no hardware product. Before Facebook can make the Likes, the products like smartphones must exist and the firmware must be working really fine.

That is why Intel’s note that it has been shipping firmware-vulnerable chips is big news. This means that Intel software was vulnerable, even before we can get to operating systems like Windows or Linux. Largely, that is the closest you can get to the machines, and the silicon that makes them switch to our computational delights. In the world today, 99.99% of security solutions are not designed for that software level. You expect Intel Corp that wires the silicon to get the firmware to handover to the operating system will always own that space, efficiently.

CPU king Intel admitted that software it included in nearly every chip it sold in recent years is riddled with security vulnerabilities. PC users were urged to download a patch to eliminate the flaws that could allow a hacker to run malicious software or bypass security checks.

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The security holes reside mainly in a feature called the “management engine” on Intel CPUs, like its brand new 8th generation Core Processor series. Intel said it had developed software patches to eliminate the problems, but listed only one manufacturer—Lenovo—that had created a way for customers to actually update their computers. While some other PC makers listed fixes on their own web sites, some of the vulnerable chips reside in smart, connected devices (part of the so-called Internet of Things) and may never be updated.

This is the phase of computing which we do not pay a lot of attention in Nigeria. Firmware development is really the zenith in software because without it, you will be unable to get hardware and software to talk to each other. Without that capability, you cannot design sensors and hardware solutions. It is the most sophisticated part of software development. Yes, it involves controlling electrical signals which must be handled the way they must be handled, and nothing less.

Meanwhile, the next iPhone will have augmented reality. Apple paid $30 million to acquire a Montreal virtual reality headset maker Vrvana. Typically, when Apple buys, you get the picture where it is going. This product will appear very soon in new iPhones.

Time for “National Chief Information Officer, Federal Republic of Nigeria”

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Ndubuisi Ekekwe
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Two sectors, two approaches:

When the Bankers Committee wanted to associate the bank accounts in Nigeria with the biometrics of their owners, they came together. Through the Bank Verification Number (BVN), a customer once registered in one bank could link that same BVN in accounts maintained in other banks. There was no need of duplicating or replicating biometrics data in each of the banks. The impact is massive saving for the banks under a top-grade data consolidation regime. I always like how the Bankers Committee makes decisions: they analyze, commit and execute. The BVN has become a virtuoso project that continues to strengthen the institutional governance in Nigeria.

Contrast that with how the telecommunication sector approached the same problem. MTN, Glo, Airtel and 9Mobile (yes, Etisalat NG) decided they could not band together. Everyone went on its own way, wasting money and multiplying databases of Nigeria’s biometrics, a clear evidence of lack of National Data Policy. Interestingly, the telcos are techies who could have done this better. But as we already know: technology does not necessarily make you smarter, strategy does. So, MTN has its own database, Glo has its own, and so on. These companies consumed thousands of man hours of Nigerians, just for the privilege to have phone lines.

Largely, the telcos could have done what the banks did: if you have a sim card with MTN associated with a number (let’s call it Mobile Verification Number, MVN) tied to your biometrics, you can use that MVN to get sim card from another operator, without supplying new biometrics. For example, to get a Glo sim card, you do not need to do another biometrics, you simply give them the MVN, and they will sell you a sim card linking the phone number to the biometrics MTN had maintained.

Magically, that will save money for all the players. Of course, that is on the assumption that the telcos do greet one another. The way we do competition in Nigeria takes away any element of cooperation. That is unfortunate. We simply destroy our margins through unnecessary waste of resources. Only the banks have figured out how to build industries and ecosystems.

What is happening in telcos is happening in Immigration, Drivers License Office and clusters of entities across Nigeria where they continue to capture biometrics. I do think that Nigeria may need to redesign the Acts that govern NITDA (National Information Technology Development Agency) and NIMC (National Identity Management Commission) to deal with many pressing issues on technology and data management. If we collapse them as one, we can have an Office of Chief Information Officer, for Federal Republic of Nigeria; call it National Chief Information Officer (NCIO). The present Director-General of NIMC can assume that office as NIMC has more roles in the consolidation of the disparate databases in Nigeria, and certainly more strategic than NITDA.

Adapting from a similar role in U.S., the CIO will be the administrator of the electronic government evolution in Nigeria. The position will be appointed by the President and will oversee national technology spending, federal IT policy, and strategic planning of all national IT investments. The NCIO will be charged with establishing a government-wide enterprise architecture that ensures system interoperability, information sharing, as well as maintain effective information security and privacy controls across the Federal Government.

Besides, the incumbent will make sure that the Nigerian government buys software license as one entity instead of disparate ways government agencies acquire them today. So, instead of each ministry and agency wasting money on direct purchases of software licenses, Federal Republic of Nigeria can acquire the licenses, and then share (adding more user base where necessary) with MDAs (ministries, departments and agencies). That is one way of saving cost which the Ministry of Finance has not considered. There are many other ways, if only the nation sees the big picture.

If Data is the new oil, Nigeria needs to be prepared for that data future. Yes, we cannot use the structure for the “old oil” for the “new  oil”.

Make 2018 Great, Let’s Accelerate Innovation In Your Organization

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Ndubuisi Ekekwe
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This is a sponsored piece from me. We would like to work for you, as you engineer strategies for 2018. Have a profitable New Year, good people.

I lead an Advisory Services Practice in Fasmicro Group.  We help clients architect winning strategies through new business models, technologies and processes. We provide deep insights to clients’ business challenges, uncovering patterns, and delivering outcomes that win in markets. Our clients include leading banks, telcos, fintechs, militaries, governments, insurers, and more.

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The centerpiece of our work is to structure how technology will help clients to accelerate innovation and growth. We work to deliver technology which goes beyond running an organization to one that actually transforms a firm. As we do this, we stay focused on the corporate goal, making sure that technology is anchoring the realization of business objectives.

Our work covers change, leadership, and strategy. We serve clients in these areas, among others:

  • Board/Executive Management IT Roadmap presentation (industry landscape tailored for your firm/industry, delivering what to prepare for in short-, mid- and long-terms)
  • IT Skill Capabilities Mapping
  • Digital Products (business model, strategy, growth)
  • Quarterly Report (max of 8 pages, summarizing key industry evolution, around your business, with how you can prepare)
  • IT Governance
  • IT Value Realization
  • IT Process Documentation
  • Center of Excellence (design, development, deployment, evaluation)
  • IT Product Conception and Launch (business model, strategy, growth)
  • IT Spend Planning
  • Data Consolidation

I lead my team and we handle engagements with absolute commitment to quality. Our clients receive the highest level of value, and our pricing is industry-competitive.

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Selected Focus Areas

  1. IT Strategy: Conduct a review of the Firm’s current IT strategy, and identify the current gaps considering the business needs  and market best practices  and make recommendations  to implement the strategic gaps with fit for purpose  solutions in line with Global Best practices and local realities
  2. IT Governance: Conduct a review of the current IT Governance practices in all areas in line with International and Local Regulatory standards like COBIT and identify the gaps in implementation/Compliance to standards. Recommend the necessary detailed steps to align with the International standards. Review the IT Organogram for HQ and at Country level and recommend an Effective Governance Framework to effectively manage the HQ and Country technology Organizations interface
  3. IT Skill Capabilities: Conduct an IT capability and competency mapping of key IT Tasks/roles against available skills in the Firm  and make recommendations where there are shortages or excess capacities. This should be done using acceptable frameworks like Skills Framework for the Information Age (SFIA). Establish how to appropriately deploy the human resources to have an agile IT Organization. Produce a framework that will help the Firm to develop and retain the core IT skills required by the Firm. Recommend a Robust Outsourcing strategy and in key areas to complement inhouse skills and a governance framework to manage the Outsourced Vendors.
  4.  IT Value Realisation: Conduct a detailed Benefits Realisation assessment of the Firm’s Key IT investments in Software and Hardware Projects. Make specific recommendations on how to measure Benefit/value realised from IT and identify and recommend the Key Levers for Value Realisation of the Existing IT investments. Develop a framework for the establishment of IT Value realisation practices for future projects and investments.
  5. IT Projects: Conduct an assessment of all IT Projects in the Firm during the last three years. Determine how many of them were delivered on time, how many are still ongoing, how many are failed, etc. Identify the Strategic reasons for their failures and recommendation for successful execution of projects. Make recommendations on how to better handle ongoing IT projects and develop an enterprise project management and governance framework for managing the Firm’s IT projects in a cost effective and timely manner.
  6. IT Process Documentation and Performance Management: Conduct a review of all IT and Cross Functional process in the Firm against available documentations and make recommendations. Identify the key gaps in the processes leading to failures in IT Operations service delivery. Assist to align the IT processes with specific business processes and produce a report showing the mappings of IT process against business processes. Create Standard templates for the creation of Standard Operating Procedures (SOP) for IT Processes. Identify the Key Vital Performance Metrics which IT operations should monitor to manage the service delivery and operations of IT.  Identify the Specific and Measurable Key Leading and Lagging Indicators KPIs for all the units in IT organization.
  7. IT Processes Documentation:Document the Firm’s IT processes to improve change/succession management, build IT knowledge base and institutionalize the Firm’s processes by making them individually-agnostic.
  8.  Center of Excellence: Assist the IT Organization to develop and implement a framework for the development of the Centre of Excellence (CoE) concept within the IT Organisation in the Key Domains consisting of best practices standards in Solution Delivery, Governance, Service Management, Project Management, Data Centre Practices, etc. Develop a CoE Maturity framework.  Assess the current state and identify the gaps and benchmarks required to move towards Journey of Excellence.
  9. Digital Products: Review the performance of the technology-enabled products against the uptake and value realized. Review the products/channels to recommend infrastructural and other changes needed to generate desired traffics for the products.
  10. IT Spend:  Review the IT spend for last 3 years and provide strategic assessment of the Firm’s IT cost structures compared to global and Local benchmarks. Recommend Value added-IT cost reduction approach that provides a competitive edge to business while reducing overall costs.
  11. Data Consolidation: Develop data governance and framework for the Firm to enable efficient management of the Firm’s data and ensure data is robust, accurate and reliable. Design and execute the Firm’s data consolidation plan.
  12. Cybersecurity & Digital Forensics: We help institutions develop cybersecurity and digital forensics policy, management and technology solutions
  13. Leadership: We help clients architect change leadership with specific focus on technology.

Contact: info@fasmicrogroup.com

Privacy in Nigeria: Unborn Tomorrow, Dead Yesterday

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Ndubuisi Ekekwe
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When evil people do bad things in America, U.S. law enforcement agencies ask companies like Apple to help them unlock the phones to support their investigations, in occasions where the bad people are dead. Going to the equipment manufacturers is necessary because they are the makers of the products, and can help to unlock the devices, without destroying the data in them.

This is necessary because telecom companies like Verizon and Sprint do not warehouse fingerprint and facial images of American citizens. The best data they have are social security numbers (like Nigeria’s National Identity Number from the National Identity Management Commission) and date of birth with the usual fields (addresses, names, etc).

But in Nigeria, the telcos have everything including facial images, fingerprint and anything you can imagine. So if a dead terrorist’s phone is to be unlocked, Nigerian government can ask the telcos to help. They do not have to crack the phone. That is not necessary since they did not make the phones. They just pull the biometrics to unlock the phones. Every mobile subscriber in Nigeria surrenders biometrics data for the opportunity to be assigned a mobile line.

I think it will be possible to unlock iPhone X via a life-size screen of a stored human face. Also for the Touch ID, one can use a stored fingerprint to do the same, by tricking the iPhone to unlock, using the owner’s biometrics.

American investigators do not have these biometrics data about their citizens. But their Nigerian counterparts do. And when everything fails, it is safe to expect them to take the iPhone X and point to the face of a dead terrorist to unlock it. The same can be done via fingerprint also. Ethics be damned; that is the world we live right now.

I am really concerned on the state of privacy and how it is evolving in Nigeria. Sure, government has been pushing hard due to many bad actors but that does not mean that the nation does not need a national data policy. Having biometrics of citizens in private company vaults is terrifying

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