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.
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.
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.
Proactive IT monitoring should tell you what is genuinely happening on your network — not simply...
What is Managed Network Security and Why It’s Not Just Another IT Service Quick Definition:...
600 endpoints requiring VPN compliance verification across CrowdStrike, Cisco ISE and Fortinet security fabric • Business impact: circular dependencies risked stranding distributed workforce → Architectural analysis resolved integration, 455 endpoints secured with compliance-controlled access
