Si Futures Blog
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
When a Client Asks You to Register 250 Domains, the Right Answer Is Not Always Yes
A major investment management firm asked Si Futures to register 250 domains. We arranged a specialist meeting instead. Here’s what genuine brand protection looks like — and why homoglyph attacks are the threat most businesses haven’t considered.
Cyber Essentials Is No Longer Optional: What UK SMEs Need to Know Before April 27
The UK Cyber Essentials scheme gets significantly stricter on April 27. Si Futures examines what the changes mean for UK SMEs, why certification is increasingly the price of entry in the UK market, and what businesses need to do before the deadline.
Employees: The ‘Weakest Link’ or Your Strongest Defence?
Employees: The 'Weakest Link' or Your Strongest...
The Hidden Layer of IT Resilience: What a Monitoring Platform Migration Really Teaches You
Si Futures shares what a decade-long PRTG-to-Zabbix monitoring platform migration really revealed — why alert calibration matters more than alert volume, and what every IT leader should know before committing.
