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01/11/2026

🔐 You can pass ISO 27001 and still be breached through your payroll bureau.

Verizon's 2026 Data Breach Investigations Report found a third party involved in 48% of breaches, up from 30% the year before. Attackers go where the effort is lowest. If your own defences are solid, a smaller supplier with weaker controls and trusted access to your data is the easier way in.

ISO 27001 already asks about this. Its supplier controls mean an auditor will ask you three things 👇

✅ How you decide which suppliers matter ✅ What you require of them ✅ How you know they are meeting it

Third-party risk management answers all three with evidence. It ranks your vendors, checks the ones that handle your data, monitors them continuously and follows up on every gap. Run it alongside ISO 27001 and you keep one supplier list, one risk register and one set of evidence.

Start by listing your suppliers and marking the five or ten that hold your data or can log in to your systems. That list is the beginning of your supplier inventory.

We do both with one team, including continuous supplier monitoring as an approved Panorays MSSP partner. If ISO 27001 is on your 2027 plan, book a gap assessment: [email protected]

Full article in the first comment 👇

15/09/2026

🚨 Nobody hacked Bidvest Bank, EasyEquities, Peregrine Capital or Cell C this weekend.

All four still had to write to customers about a cyber incident, because a supplier they trust with your information had one.

Three of them appear to share one supplier: RelyComply, a South African platform that checks who you are when you open an account (the F**A checks). Cell C's incident involves a different supplier.

A ransomware group claims it took 200GB from RelyComply, including 92 million rows of identity data: ID numbers, dates of birth, home addresses, bank account details. That claim is unverified. The countdown on their leak site is real.

A password can be reset. Your ID number cannot, and that kind of data gets used for identity fraud for years.

If you got one of those emails 👇

✅ Treat any call that quotes your own details back to you as the scam, even if the caller knows things only your bank should know. Hang up and phone the number on your card.
✅ Apply for Protective Registration at the Southern African Fraud Prevention Service. It is free, it flags your ID to every member bank and credit provider, and you get a reference number within 48 hours.
✅ Pull your free annual credit report (TransUnion or Experian) now, and again in six months.

If you run a business: could you name, today, every outside company holding your customers' ID data? Most owners cannot. That is the job we now do for clients, continuously, as an approved Panorays MSSP partner.

Full breakdown and the SAFPS link in the first comment 👇 Please share this with anyone who got one of those emails.
https://f1itsolutions.co.za/blog/four-breach-notices-one-shared-vendor

01/09/2026

🔒 Yesterday we told you nearly half of all breaches now arrive through someone else's systems.

Today, here is what we are doing about it.

F1 IT Solutions is now an approved Panorays MSSP partner. That means continuous third-party cyber risk management, run for you as a fully managed service, across South Africa, the UK and Europe.

In plain terms, for every supplier you have:

✅ We build the full list, including the logins everyone forgot about
✅ We check each one from the outside, the way an attacker would
✅ Every vendor gets a continuously updated cyber posture rating
✅ You get an alert the moment something slips, not at next year's review
✅ Your board and your regulator get reporting they can actually use

Nothing gets installed on your systems or on your suppliers'.

Remember: under POPIA, if your supplier loses your customer data, YOU answer to the Information Regulator. Fines run to R10 million. Their breach, your problem. That is exactly the gap this closes.

Full announcement and the joint press release in the first comment 👇

Demo bookings: [email protected]

31/08/2026

🔐 Nearly half of all data breaches now arrive through someone else's systems.

Verizon's 2026 report puts third-party involvement at 48% of breaches. A year earlier it was 30%. That counts compromised suppliers and vulnerabilities in software you bought.

So think about who holds a key to your business right now. Your payroll provider. Your accounting platform. The agency you gave a login to for one campaign. The contractor whose VPN access was created for a three-month project in 2023 and never removed.

Most South African owners get the next part the wrong way round. Under POPIA, if your supplier loses your customer data, YOU are the one who notifies the Information Regulator, not them. Their breach, your deadline.

The good news: the fix is mostly admin, not technology.

✅ Build the vendor list from twelve months of supplier payments
✅ Rank suppliers by the damage they could do, not by what they cost
✅ Ask ten short questions instead of sending a 40-page form
✅ Put the answers in the contract, including a breach notification deadline
✅ Give every vendor account an end date the day you create it

We have published the full method, with the tiering table, the ten questions and the offboarding checklist. Link in the first comment 👇

👀 And keep an eye on this page tomorrow. We are announcing something that changes how we handle all of this for our clients.

30/08/2026

A company told its insurer it had multi-factor authentication switched on. It was running on the firewall and nowhere else.

Then ransomware hit. They claimed. In August 2022 the entire policy was voided, back to the day it was signed, which killed that claim and every other one they could ever have made on it.

Cyber insurance forms are technical audits now. Every box you tick is something you can be held to.

Three things decide whether you get cover at all:

→ MFA on email, remote access and admin accounts, including the service accounts that quietly bypass it
→ EDR on every laptop and every server, including the ones IT never got around to
→ Backups that are offline or immutable, and that you have actually restored from

Everything else sets the price: patching, old operating systems, who holds admin rights, email authentication, staff training, log retention, network segmentation, supplier risk.

Most businesses we look at have the controls and cannot evidence them. A backup job that reports success every night proves the job ran. It does not prove the data comes back. When you claim, the adjuster asks for the dated restore test.

Our security team wrote up what underwriters are checking in 2026, and the five things worth doing before your renewal. Free to read, no sign-up.

Link in the first comment.

20/08/2026

Anyone can build a working AI app now. Far fewer can build one that's safe to put real customer data into.

We review a lot of these, and the same gaps come up every time:

🔑 Passwords and API keys written straight into the code
🚪 No real login — the app is "protected" by nobody knowing the link
📤 No one able to say where the data goes, or whether it's kept
📋 No record of who used it or what it did

For a prototype, fine. For something handling client information every day, that's a problem — and if you're in financial services or insurance, it's a compliance problem too.

The good news: fixing it doesn't mean slowing down. It means about twenty minutes of planning before you build, and a few sensible controls underneath.

Full article on our blog — link in the first comment. 👇

16/06/2026

Is every computer in your business actually safe? 🛡️

Most owners don't know — until one missed update lets someone in.

Vikelus watches every device around the clock, fixes the real risks automatically, and proves it was done.

👉 Book a demo — link in bio.
vikelus

13/06/2026

🚨 WARNING: A banking scam is emptying accounts across South Africa RIGHT NOW.

It starts with an SMS or email about a payment you never made. You call the "fraud number" — and reach a perfect copy of your bank's call centre. They send you a link to "reset your account." The moment you log in, criminals have your money.

South Africans lost R3.9 BILLION to banking fraud last year. This attack is hitting clients of ALL major banks.

3 rules that beat it: 🔍 NEVER call the number in the message — Google your bank's official fraud line 🔖 NEVER log in through a link — only your bookmarked site or banking app ⏸️ SLOW DOWN — panic is exactly what they want

Our security team's full 2-page advisory is free — link in comments. Share this post. It could save a friend's savings — or your parents'.

03/06/2026

Hackers don't break in. They walk in.

Right now CISA lists 1,600+ security holes criminals are actively using — in Chrome, Office, and the PDF reader your team opened this morning. New ones land every week.

Vuln-Watch is our answer. Built in Cape Town, it checks every new exploit against every machine we manage, daily — and names the exact laptop that's exposed. We patch it, two engineers sign off on anything serious, and you get the monthly report that proves it.

Your antivirus is the alarm. We're the locksmith.

DM us for a sample report of your business.

22/04/2026

Be smart when using Al.

Contact us if you always want to be safe without having to think twice ! 🛡️

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Tuesday	08:30 - 17:00
Wednesday	08:30 - 17:00
Thursday	08:30 - 17:00
Friday	08:30 - 17:00

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