By Cynthia Alo

Indigenous IT solution firm, Ethnos, has restated its commitment to ensuring a better technological experience in Nigeria.

This is even as the IT firm unveiled a new logo to reflect their vision and how they will serve their customers better.

The company which celebrated its 10 years anniversary in the Nigeria ecosystem said that it will continue to offer robust cybersecurity solutions and advisory services to its clients across the nation.

In a statement, Founder and Chief Executive Officer of the indigenous firm, Mr Peter Ejiofor said, “As a company, we were designed to provide security solutions to organisations, businesses, and others. As technology keeps improving, we came to the knowledge that security is the backbone of technology. We can’t talk about technology advancement without thinking of how to secure your business assets and human-to-human engagements. We, at Ethnos IT have grown with the growth of technology.

He added “Today, technology is looking at artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning, metaverse, digital transformation, holography and many others. We have grown with these new technologies and also improved in our capacity and skill set to support our customers as they consume these technologies. We have grown our market base, personnel, in terms of global technical engagements we have grown also. That is the journey.

“Someone said if I survive five years it means we would be in business for long and thank God we have survived these five years and we are ten today. Ten years has been a good experience for us. We have our ups and downs but we keep evolving.”

On the evolution of the organisation, the CEO added that apart from offering world-class cybersecurity solutions to organisations, the company has come to understand the need to build capacity and the required skill set for the country and various individual organisations that will man their cybersecurity department.

“Having noticed the gap in capacity building, Ethnos IT Solutions Limited established a center that will train the young ones at no cost and have them equipped for organisations that will need their services.

“As a person, I have learned to create a platform for people to thrive. We recently created an academy where people are admitted and made to know the rudiments of cybersecurity. We created a platform that will have skills available to the young ones and we trained them at no charge. We are building a platform of security experts. We are also a strong and bonded team; we encourage people to try. Opportunities abound in the market and we encourage people to take advantage of them,” Peter Ejiofor said.

On the new logo he said, “When we started, we wanted to create an identity but as we have come of age, we tweaked our logo a bit to reflect who we are as of today. The concept of the circle you find in our logo shows a network of our customers. If you look at it clearly it is not broken, we show that our customers are safeguarded and we are supplying them livewire they need to grow. We wanted that to reflect in our logo as a problem-solving organisation.”

“It is a mindset which has become cultural where Nigerians believe that foreign firms are better but we met some Nigerians, who were of different opinions and they gave us a chance and here we are today. The industry has grown today, we were early birds that came to the industry when it was young or green.

“The security industry has grown so wide and today a lot of people have joined and the industry has grown. What sets us apart is that we do not only provide products but we provide services too. We go to companies with questions like; are your pain points? What are your plans for security? What fears do you nurse? We help organizations answer these and equip the people with skills set to fight cybercrimes,” he opined.

“Currently, we have a wealth of experience and we have changed our thinking and vision as a company. What we do now is to solve real problems for organisations and we are not limited in our thinking. We are not limited in any area of cyber security. We are no longer at the stage of delivering products but solving problems.

“We evaluate customers to determine their needs, some we train them and improve their cyber hygiene culture, some we deploy technologies to control their touchpoints, others we support on their regulatory journeys.

“So, we look at businesses and implement threat management and we have platforms that we can plug into your environment and help you control and detect threats from internet exposure to databases.”

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