Si Futures Blog
Misconfigured, Not Hacked: Why Your Firewall Settings Are a Bigger Risk Than You Think
The most common route into an SME network is not a sophisticated attack — it is a firewall setting that was wrong from the start, or that drifted over time. Nicholas Broderick explains how benchmarking against CIS standards turns assumption into accountability.
What Your People Don’t Know: How a Structured Human Firewall Pilot Changes the Conversation
Most organisations assume their people know how to handle a phishing email. A structured Human Firewall trial reveals what they actually know — and gives management a concrete, measurable baseline to act on.
What the Handover Document Doesn’t Tell You
When a business changes IT provider, the handover document is rarely the whole picture. Rudie de Vries explains what a thorough estate assessment actually uncovers — and why the gap is almost always larger than anyone expected.
When Your Hosting Provider Gets Hacked: The DNS Security Risk Most Businesses Never See Coming
A travel consultancy contacted Si Futures because they could not send or receive email — not because of anything they had done wrong, but because their hosting provider had been compromised. This is the DNS security risk most businesses never think about: the infrastructure you rely on sits in someone else’s hands, and their security posture becomes yours by default
Before the Contract: How Trust in IT Is Actually Built
A Johannesburg financial services business experienced a security incident. Si Futures offered a security assessment rather than a sales pitch — and spent ten months earning the contract. Here is why the consultative approach is the only one we know.
When the App IS the Business: A Two-Hour Migration Window That Took Eighteen Months to Reach
App-dependent food distributor faced total revenue risk during platform migration
• Business impact: unmodifiable sync executable, no source code, 18 months standby restarts, zero-downtime requirement
→ Private cloud migration complete in 2 hours: zero orders lost, sync runs independently, full dev access restored
