Financial services firm needed lower connectivity costs without losing resilience
• Business impact: rigid off-net circuit meant weeks-long changes and no safety margin for a business trading daily
→ Migrated to a Si Futures-owned on-net circuit with automated BGP failover, tested live at 4 seconds — lower cost, same reliability.
Practical Guides
When One Person Becomes Your Reporting Bottleneck
Si Futures Senior Engineer Rudie de Vries explains how a single engineer’s manual account activity investigation process was turned into a self-service Microsoft 365 activity monitoring tool — cutting a security incident timeline task from hours to minutes for the whole team.
What To Do When Your Email Account Is Compromised
A quiet email account compromise can run for weeks before anyone notices. This piece walks through the practical, ordered steps that limit damage and stop attackers finding a second way back in.
SQL Server Upgrade: Three Risks Resolved in a Regulated Environment
SQL Server 2016 at end of support in a regulated SA financial services environment
• Business impact: audit exposure, absent security patches, 1.5TB storage accumulation
→ Upgraded to current SQL version; performance validated; downstream compatibility resolved in 15 minutes; automated weekly storage cleanup established
Your Microsoft 365 Audit Logs Are Harder to Use Than You Think
Microsoft 365 audit logs retain 180 days of activity — but the compliance portal wasn’t built for serious investigations. Rudie de Vries explains the retention ceiling, bulk extraction via PowerShell, and what happens when the clock runs out mid-investigation.
The Microsoft Change That Will Break Your Office 365 Backups
Microsoft is retiring Exchange Web Services in October 2026 — a backend change that will silently break backup tools, archiving solutions, and integrations still relying on EWS. Find out if your Microsoft 365 backup is at risk and what to do before the deadline.
Why VPN and MFA Are No Longer Enough
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.
What the Cyber Security and Resilience Bill Means for UK SMEs
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.
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.