Knowing to care about your online security is the first step in cybersecurity and digital safety. Your safety is basically in your hands, if you consider security best practices and put them in place, it becomes more difficult for threat actors to succeed because you have put processes in place…

Google introduced Infrastructure Manager, a Google Cloud-managed service that offers Terraform functionality. You can use Infrastructure as Code (IaC) management techniques with Infrastructure Manager to manage the Terraform-based Google Cloud infrastructure. With declarative configuration, this offers a managed and streamlined experience for installing, configuring, and maintaining your cloud resources. …

By Gbemisola Esho When it comes to manufacturing smart cards and providing digital security devices, there are only six plants in Africa that offer world class facilities. One of those, certified by VISA, Verve and Mastercard, is in Lagos. And it is run by a woman. The SecureID offices, located…

#cloudiam #security #roles #access In Google Cloud resources are arranged in a hierarchy with the organisation as the root node.To be able to access resources in Google Cloud you need identity access management in short called IAM. Cloud IAM is how you decide who can do what in Google Cloud resources.To…

WHEN Femi Olayebi was pregnant with her first child, she searched the length and breadth of her home town of Ibadan, but couldn’t find a baby bag that she liked. “I was searching for a combination of style and functionality, but nothing caught my eye. …

By Gbemisola Esho It is a new day in Conakry, the capital city of Guinea, and the port is buzzing with activity. At the break of dawn, a lone figure can be seen with a fishing net. The fisherman, identified as Keita, toils for long hours, and at the end…

In the middle of the hustle and bustle of Lagos, a city of over 20 million people, is the vast Lagos lagoon that hugs the expanse of the Atlantic Ocean. On this water, the invasive water hyacinth weed has turned into a lush and endless greenery akin to a soccer…

GBEMISOLA ESHO, BIRD STORY AGENCY FOR Modupe Ademola, Corporation road in Lagos state is a place that will forever be etched in her memory. It was on this street that her life changed. She’s not the only one. Almost every day of the week, several women and girls flock to…

Finance in Africa The history of finance in Africa is centuries old, dating back to long before the advent of paper money, goods, and services were exchanged with an agreed medium of exchange, this was called trade by barter. Barter has been in existence as far back as 5000 BC…