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Major events that shaped science, technology and communications sectors in 2022


Earlier in the then-new year, 2022, the Nigerian Communications Commission confirmed that MTN Nigeria and Mafab Communications Limited had paid $273.6m each for the Fifth Generation spectrum licence.

The Executive Vice Chairman of the NCC, Umar Danbatta, confirmed the payment in February as the deadline set for the two winners of the spectrum auction elapsed.

The “Provisional winners of the 3.5 Gigahertz spectrum licence, MTN Communications Nigeria Plc and Mafab Communications Limited, have made their full payment of $273.6m each for the 5G Spectrum license to the Nigerian Communications Commission”, Danbatta said via a press statement in February.

Also in the year, the Minister of Science Technology and Innovation (STI), Senator Adeleke Mamora, said despite less funding and other challenges, the ministry made enormous achievements since he took over as minister on July 14, 2022.

The minister said this in Abuja during an interactive session with reporters on the achievements of the ministry in the period under review.

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He also solicited for more funding for Research and Development (R&D) in the country to boost technological advancement.

“Research activities require a lot of funding and there has to be a way to make that funding possible. The African Union (AU) had set up a 2% of GDP for member countries for R&D and the truth is that until and unless we give priority to R&D, it will be difficult for us to get to where we want to be in terms of socio-economic development. We need R&D to move forward,” he said.

Mamora commended President Muhammadu Buhari for committing 0.5% of Nigeria’s GDP to Research and Development which, he said, is an improvement from previous years.

The minister also said as a result of the funding constraints, the ministry had prioritised dropping of wastages and avoiding duplication.

Also, the executive vice chairman/chief executive, National Agency for Science and Engineering Infrastructure (NASENI), Prof. Mohammed Sani Haruna, disclosed during the year that the agency’s target is to contribute 50 megawatts of…

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IronNet named a “Vendor Who Shaped the Year” for second time by IDC


IDC released its Worldwide Cybersecurity AIRO and Tier 2 SOC Analytics Market Shares, 2020. The Seeds That Become Cloud-Native XDR, which highlights the growth of the $12.8B advanced cybersecurity market that include Network Intelligence and Threat Analytics, mobile device management and the emerging cloud-native extended detection and response (XDR) category. For the second time in less than twelve months, IronNet was highlighted as a Vendor Who Shaped the Year for our ability detect threats using AI-based behavioral analysis and our ability to generate attack intelligence through IronNet’s unique real-time Collective Defense capability. 

With cyber attacks like SUNBURST, Colonial Pipeline, and Kaseya making headlines, it is clear that network defenses continue to play an important role in any organization’s cybersecurity controls. The ability to identify suspicious activity using advanced and scalable behavioral analytics on network traffic, and the ability to automatically acquire contextual data and prioritize detected anomalies using industry leading response playbooks based on risk to the organization through the use of an Expert System, is critical for modernizing cyber defense against supply chain threats, ransomware attacks, and other high impact cyber attacks. 

Equally important is the ability to share attack intelligence in near real-time across a community of peers in a Collective Defense formation. The ability to share threat insights across a supply chain, business ecosystems, region, or nation against the numerous threat groups (e.g., such as Russian cyber attack groups) allows enterprises to scale cyber defenses to meet these targeted threats.

“The IronNet differentiator is its Collective Defense platform that consists of its IronDefense network detection and response and its unique IronDome threat sharing solution that facilitates a crowdsource-like environment, in which IronDefense threat detections from individual companies are shared anonymously and in real time among members of a secured Collective Defense community … IronNet addresses the scarcity of security professionals, closing the talent gap with AI-based behavioral analytics that…

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How technology shaped 2015 the good and bad ways – Daily Sabah


Daily Sabah

How technology shaped 2015 the good and bad ways
Daily Sabah
The world said goodbye to 2015 and its many technological advances, some of which created unfavorable scenes like the cyber attacks in Turkey that peaked on Dec. 25. In 2016, a number of new devices will be in our hands like the second generation …

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Digital Weapons: How Stuxnet Shaped Cyber Warfare – WOSU Public Media


WOSU Public Media

Digital Weapons: How Stuxnet Shaped Cyber Warfare
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Four years ago, Stuxnet, a malware virus, was unleashed in an Iranian nuclear facility. Unlike many viruses, it wasn't designed to harm computers or steal information, but to shut down equipment. Hackers still marvel at its elegant coding, and this

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