How do you manage firewall threat intelligence when your block lists outgrow the firewall’s limits? Si Futures built a dynamic threat feed to replace static Fortinet address groups — cutting overhead and scaling without limit.
AI can write code faster than any developer. The question is whether anyone is checking what it actually produced — and whether it is secure, not just functional. Si Futures ran penetration tests against their own services to find out.
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
Most businesses only discover an email authentication problem when something breaks. This post explains how SPF, DKIM and DMARC determine whether your email is trusted — and why getting them right is as much a security decision as a deliverability one.
What happens when the 6am standby call sounds completely legitimate — but something still feels wrong? Nicholas Broderick on the verification process that protects MSP engineers and clients when AI voice cloning makes impersonation almost indistinguishable from the real thing.
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.
A German logistics group’s CTO flew to South Africa last week. Part of his visit was a meeting with Si Futures — and what he found when he examined the environment we built is the kind of validation that does not come from a survey. It comes from scrutiny.
• Business impact: years of consistent infrastructure work, long-term partnership approach
→ CTO endorses Si Futures environment as meeting the group’s global infrastructure standard
Most MSPs buy their operations stack. Si Futures built its own. Meridian is the proprietary framework governing inSight, NOC Brain, SiDekick, SiSmic, SiNapse, and SiNoria Studio — tools built from real engineering frustrations to solve problems commercial platforms address inadequately.
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.
