Vodacom is the biggest connectivity provider in South Africa. Most businesses know them for fibre, LTE, and mobile. What fewer businesses know is that Vodacom Business runs a managed security operation centre, MDR services, email security, perimeter protection, and disaster recovery as a service. We integrate those services into the security stacks we build for…
South African businesses often cobble together their IT management from free tools, cheap tools, and whatever came with the server. Monitoring from one vendor, patching from another, helpdesk from a third, and nothing talks to anything else. It works until it does not, and the IT person spends more time switching between dashboards than actually…
Most businesses we work with have backups. Most of them would struggle to recover from a serious incident. The gap between having a backup and being able to recover is where businesses fail when it matters most. Backup is a copy. Recovery is a plan. A backup is a copy of your data stored somewhere…
Every South African business with more than 20 staff hits the same decision point. Do we hire an IT person, do we outsource to a managed services provider, or do we do something in between? The answer depends on what you actually need, not what the salesperson in front of you is selling. In-house IT…
Microsoft 365 is the backbone of most South African businesses. Email, files, teams, identity. But the default configuration is built for convenience, not security. We have yet to audit an M365 tenant where everything was properly locked down. Conditional access This is the first thing we look at. Conditional access policies are the rules that…
Your office is a coffee shop. Better chairs, worse coffee, and a printer someone actually knows how to use. But functionally, it is a place where people sit and connect to the internet. Everything else, the applications, the data, the collaboration, lives somewhere else. Most businesses have not caught up to this reality. They are…
Every IT manager running a multi-site operation in South Africa has had this conversation. MPLS is expensive. SD-WAN promises to replace it with internet-based connectivity at a fraction of the cost. The sales pitch sounds good. The reality is more complicated. What MPLS actually gives you MPLS is a private network. Your traffic does not…
POPIA got South African businesses thinking about compliance. ISO 27001 is where the serious ones end up. If your organisation is tendering for government contracts, supplying large enterprises, or operating in financial services, ISO 27001 is increasingly the price of entry, not a nice-to-have. The problem is that most businesses start in the wrong place….
When a South African business gets hit by ransomware, the first call is usually to us. The second question, after “can you help?”, is always “how much is this going to cost?” The answer depends on how prepared they were before the attack. Most businesses think they are prepared because they have backups. Having a…
Most South African businesses defend their networks the same way: build a wall, put sensors on it, and wait for an alert. Firewalls, endpoint protection, SIEM dashboards. All reactive. All depend on recognising something bad has already started. The problem is that attackers are not stupid. They study your defences, find the gaps, and move…