Fortivus

13/08/2026

Proud to be mentioned by a leading SEO agency in doing our AI search 🔍 well!

Defence tech funding hit $14.6bn in 2026, but almost no agency serving it is ready for SEO or AI search. Here's the real gap, and what closes it.

05/08/2026

When Safaricom launched M-Pesa in Kenya in March 2007, it was a mobile-based payments system for a country where fewer than 3 in 10 adults had a bank account.

Nine months later, the country descended into post-election violence. Banks closed. Roads shut. Physical movement became dangerous.

M-Pesa kept working.

Families sent rescue money to trapped relatives. Households received remittances that let them buy food and medicine when nothing else was moving. The system that had been built for convenience turned out to be critical infrastructure.

The research that followed (Jack and Suri's landmark 2014 study) found something remarkable. Households using M-Pesa experienced no significant drop in consumption when hit by shocks — illness, job loss, crop failure. Non-users saw consumption fall by 7%.

Same country. Same shocks. Different outcomes.

Between 2008 and 2014, M-Pesa lifted around 194,000 households out of poverty. By 2024, Kenya's financial inclusion rate had gone from 26% to 84%.

Two things worth taking from this at Fortivus:

🎯 Resilience is rarely built during a crisis. It's built before, in ways that often don't look like resilience infrastructure until they're needed.

🌍 The most effective resilience solutions often leapfrog incumbent systems rather than reinforce them. In Kenya, that meant bypassing bank branches. In defence and critical infrastructure, the question is what equivalent leapfrogs are available now.

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16/07/2026

We'll be back on Monday, 3rd August. ☀️

13/07/2026

Bonne Fête Nationale! Happy Bastille Day! 🇫🇷

14th July is a moment to celebrate liberté, égalité, fraternité — but also to recognise the alliances built between nations that share democratic values and defend them together.

From NATO's eastern flank to everyday diplomatic cooperation, France's commitment to collective security is felt here in Estonia — and across Europe.

To all our French colleagues, partners and friends: bonne célébration, wherever you are marking the day.

David, Tim, Sander, Simon and all the Fortivus team wish you a wonderful Fête Nationale.

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Bonne Fête nationale ! Joyeux 14 juillet ! 🇫🇷

Le 14 juillet est l’occasion de célébrer la liberté, l’égalité et la fraternité, mais aussi de saluer les alliances nouées entre les nations qui partagent les valeurs démocratiques et les défendent ensemble.

Du flanc oriental de l’OTAN à la coopération diplomatique au quotidien, l’engagement de la France en faveur de la sécurité collective se fait sentir ici en Estonie — et dans toute l’Europe.

À tous nos collègues, partenaires et amis français : bonne fête, où que vous soyez pour célébrer cette journée.

David, Tim, Sander, Simon et toute l’équipe Fortivus vous souhaitent une merveilleuse Fête nationale.

13/07/2026

Ukraine. Gaza. COVID-19. Climate disasters. Four very different crises — but the same infrastructure failures keep showing up.

Four years on from Russia's invasion, the Fortivus team look at what these crises have exposed about civil defence gaps globally, and why the gap between political commitment and operational readiness remains dangerously wide.

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https://medium.com/fortivus/four-years-since-russias-invasion-what-ukraine-gaza-and-covid-19-have-taught-us-about-civil-7c1de7acb085

09/07/2026

What does it actually take to rebuild a city — and a whole national framework — after disaster?

New Zealand's response to the 2011 Christchurch earthquake is one of the most comprehensive resilience transformations in modern history. The Fortivus team broke it down in detail: what failed, what changed, and what other countries can learn from it.

A long read, but worth it. 👇

https://medium.com/fortivus/case-study-new-zealands-earthquake-resilience-framework-infrastructure-preparedness-and-rapid-7ae086f23495

07/07/2026

Europe's energy grids are more connected and more digital than ever. That's a good thing — until it isn't.

A piece from Fortivus on where the vulnerabilities really lie, and what needs to happen to protect critical infrastructure against both cyber and physical threats.

https://medium.com/fortivus/how-vulnerable-are-europes-energy-grids-to-cyber-or-physical-disruption-e8d111a8c24c

03/07/2026

Happy 4th July! Congratulations on 250 years of US independence. 🇺🇸

Today is a moment to celebrate freedom, but also to recognise the alliances that have grown between nations that share democratic values and defend them together.

From joint missions to everyday cooperation, these partnerships help keep communities safe, protect rights and support people living under the promise of democracy.

Wherever you are marking the day, here’s to allies who stand side by side for freedom and the rule of law.

David, Tim, Sander, Simon and all the Fortivus team wish our US colleagues and partners a celebratory Independence Day!

12/06/2026

Huge thanks to our work experience students from Tallinn European School / Tallinna Euroopa Kool this week, mentored by Fortivus CFO Sander Gansen.

They hit the ground running: website updates, social media graphics, AI-assisted research for our case studies and four new website language translations – Czech, Romanian, Croatian and Hungarian. 🇨🇿 🇷🇴 🇭🇷 🇭🇺

Real work, real results. You’ve done yourselves proud, gents. We hope it was a useful introduction to working in the defence tech sector.

12/06/2026

What happens when a regional disaster impacts the entire global economy?

The 2011 Tōhoku Earthquake in Japan didn't just devastate communities; it exposed a critical weakness in global supply chains. A single damaged semiconductor plant disrupted automotive production worldwide, forcing factory shutdowns thousands of miles away.

Key takeaway: Efficiency and resilience aren't the same thing. Lean, just-in-time supply chains can be highly effective—until a disruption reveals hidden dependencies and single points of failure.

Read our latest case study to see how one event reshaped the way businesses think about supply chain risk and resilience:
https://medium.com/fortivus/case-study-the-2011-t%C5%8Dhoku-earthquake-how-a-regional-disaster-shut-down-global-supply-chains-and-2a5c6618fa29

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