VPN and MFA are good controls — but attackers have adapted their techniques to work around both. Si Futures explains adversary-in-the-middle attacks, MFA fatigue, and why managed threat detection is the next essential layer for any serious security posture.
The UK’s Cyber Security and Resilience Bill is raising the bar on what businesses and their IT providers must prove. Si Futures explains what the legislation means for UK SMEs, why managed service providers are now directly in scope, and why Cyber Essentials certification is the practical starting point.
An investment company’s brand name was exposed across an open global domain landscape.
• Business impact: impersonation risk, homograph attacks invisible to spam filters, no legal standing from manual registrations
→ Domain brand protection closes 710 TLD extensions and 108,603 character variants automatically.
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
