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.
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? Human Risk Management • POPIA Compliance...
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.
The Redundancy Illusion: Why Network Resilience Must Be Designed, Not Assumed Connectivity...
After thirty years managing networks across the UK and South Africa, Si Futures examines why business connectivity resilience consistently fails — and the five questions every IT leader should be asking before their next board meeting.
An expired SSL certificate on a Friday afternoon shouldn’t be a surprise. Automated monitoring with tiered 30/14/7 day notification thresholds replaced manual tracking, while REST API integration opened firewall policy hygiene analysis — identifying dead rules that create unnecessary security gaps across client estates.
Why We Fix the Problem, Not the Alert: Root Cause Resolution Infrastructure Telemetry • Alert...
Most service dashboards focus on green lights—everything healthy, everything running. We’ve taken a different approach: our client dashboards show not just where things are healthy, but where services aren’t configured at all. This isn’t about upselling; it’s about treating clients as partners who deserve the complete picture. When you build trust through transparency rather than curated information, conversations about business needs start from honesty rather than a sales pitch.
