Ubong Kingsley-Udoh |

December 9, 2020 • Cybersecurity • 761

Prioritising Risk Across the Cyber Attack Surface

The severity of vulnerabilities in the network is alarming these days and organisations are getting overwhelmed. In 2019, a total of 17,313 new vulnerabilities were disclosed – this means that security teams had to deal with 47 new vulnerabilities every day. As modern networks become more nimble, diverse and bigger, so is the attack surface becoming more expansive and fierce.

Irrespective of how large your organisation or war chest is, you will never have enough resources to remediate every vulnerability across your cyberattack surface. We are dealing with more vulnerabilities today than ever before. It is imperative for security teams to understand vulnerabilities in context and effectively utilise that data to make informed decisions. Being short on time and resources, prioritisation is needed.

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September 28, 2020 • Foreign Policy, Globalisation, International Relations & Diplomacy • 1217

The Student Visa Uncertainty in the Trump Administration

About two months after he decidedly wanted international students to leave the country because classes were going online for no fault of theirs in a pandemic-ravaged world, the President of the United States is back at it again – altering the student visa, proposing rule changes, and in his characteristic manner, whipping up identity sentiments. The administration scrapped the policy after a slew of lawsuits. It’s an election year, so it isn’t surprising for me to see these identity bickerings masquerading as a national security agenda.
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April 5, 2020 • Technology • 1088

5G & COVID-19 Conspiracies

The raving discussions around 5G is a bold step in the right direction in my opinion and I support having first principle conversations on this subject matter. Just last year, the conversations around 5G were largely premised on the United States and China slugging it out on the commercial scene with behemothic corporations like Qualcomm and AT&T withdrawing technological support to Huawei at the behest of the United States government. The Chinese entity, ZTE before then had caved to the demands of the United States Department of Commerce and dumbed down its 5G ambitions to please the powers that be.
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October 22, 2019 • Development • 1576

Weak Signals of a New High Modernism

Reflecting on the happenings today in the Nigerian political sphere, I remember one of the best books I have read titled, “The Constraints of Corporate Tradition” written by Alan Kantrow in 1987. One of the mistakes leaders make is that they don’t understand the history of the organizations they work in and the portfolios they hold. The blind acceptance of tradition and the status quo by the political class narrows the scope of their vision and limits their understanding of the present contexts.

One of the many things future historians will find somewhat curious about the first half of the 21st century, is the most remarkable, maybe enthusiastic and self-assured way in which powerful professionals sought to restructure whole societies and economies around grand narratives — and the subsequent abject failure of each attempt at large-scale planning especially in the public sector by its leaders. These are weak signals of new high modernism.
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May 21, 2019 • Technology • 1852

Gazing at the 5G Crystal Ball

The debacle between Huawei and major US vendors like Google, Intel, and Qualcomm with a behemothic underpinning from the US Government is premised on who is going to be the leader in 5G. Huawei greatly positioned itself in all relevant parts of the network – from access, via backhaul, through the core. If the first generation (1G) brought about mobility in technology, the second generation (2G) brought us into the digital world. The third-generation (3G) saw the introduction of mobile data, while the fourth generation (4G) created the mobile broadband that we use today.

Unlike previous generations which took us a single step forward arithmetically (though in scale, it was always a big one), the fifth generation (5G) takes us multiple steps in varying directions. When you think 5G, think about Artificial Intelligence & Robotics, think about the Internet of Things, and think about Virtual & Augmented Reality. 5G will enable this technological phenomenon to be deployed at the speed of light through applications like the Enhanced Mobile Broadband (eMBB) providing increased capacity for mobile subscribers at a peak rate of over 1Gbps per customer.

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Prioritising Risk Across the Cyber Attack Surface

The Student Visa Uncertainty in the Trump Administration

5G & COVID-19 Conspiracies

Weak Signals of a New High Modernism

Gazing at the 5G Crystal Ball

Prioritising Risk Across the Cyber Attack Surface

The Student Visa Uncertainty in the Trump Administration

5G & COVID-19 Conspiracies

Weak Signals of a New High Modernism

Gazing at the 5G Crystal Ball

Rethinking Risk and Enterprise Security in a Fierce Threat Landscape

Prioritising Risk Across the Cyber Attack Surface

The Student Visa Uncertainty in the Trump Administration

5G & COVID-19 Conspiracies

Weak Signals of a New High Modernism

Gazing at the 5G Crystal Ball

Rethinking Risk and Enterprise Security in a Fierce...

5G & COVID-19 Conspiracies

Our Time. Our Renaissance

At the Centre of the Storm: Rethinking Engagements...

Spouts on the Future of Work

Prioritising Risk Across the Cyber Attack Surface

The Password Policy Paradox

Counterterrorism Tradecraft in Polymorphic Threat Mitigation

The Student Visa Uncertainty in the Trump Administration

State-Run Entreprises: My Views on Nigeria’s Aviation Sector

Mitigating Identity Theft

At the Centre of the Storm: Rethinking Engagements...

Our Time. Our Renaissance