Local data host enhances cybersecurity

WhoGoHost, Nigeria’s leading web hosting and domain registration company, providing SME and reseller web hosting with WordPress and Joomla, has said that hosting data locally has become critical to mitigate cyber-attacks.

Oluwatoba Obaniyi, chief executive officer of WhoGoHost, told Nigeria CommunicationsWeek that the launch of several data centers in the country will spur economic growth and essentially serve as platforms to rescue large, medium and small scale enterprises from the ploys of cyber traitors.

“Definitely, in terms of cyber security, gives organizations that host locally have an edge. The truth is that the world has been working very hard to make the internet safe and secured. No matter how you look at it, at some point, you would have to travel out of the country to access Google, Facebook, and the likes, even though that data is encrypted, there is still a risk of compromise, because the number of routes you have to go through before accessing the server means there is a room for compromise,” he said.

MainOne, WhoGoHost and Intel Corporation, recently unveiled a platform to provide cloud hosted Servers for Small and Medium Enterprises (SME) in Nigeria, with the view of bringing the advantages of in-country cloud services to Nigerian businesses.‎