Skip to content
Capital Africa
Cybersecurity and risk management

Build Securely. Operate Confidently.

Know where you are exposed and fix what matters first. We assess your systems against a recognised framework, rank the risks by impact and cost, and strengthen the controls that stop the most common attacks.

Illustration: an analyst assessing cybersecurity monitoring
What this covers

Cybersecurity, service by service.

  • Security assessmentsAn independent review of accounts, devices, email, network and cloud.
  • Cloud securityConfiguration, access and logging in your cloud accounts reviewed and fixed.
  • Identity and access managementSingle sign-on, multi-factor sign-in and the right access for each role.
  • Zero Trust advisoryA staged plan to verify every user, device and request.
  • Vulnerability managementRegular scanning, ranked findings and fixes tracked to closure.
  • Security architectureSecurity designed into new systems rather than added later.
  • Compliance readinessControls and evidence prepared for an audit or a customer questionnaire.
  • Security monitoringAlerts from devices, email and cloud watched and acted on, set up through the managed IT plan.
  • Business continuity and resilienceBackups, recovery plans and an incident plan your team has practised.
Problems we solve

Where this usually starts.

  • Never independently reviewedNo outside view of where the business is exposed.
  • Questionnaires you cannot answerCustomers, banks or insurers asking for evidence of controls.
  • Too many people with too much accessShared passwords, old accounts and administrators everywhere.
  • Recovery that was never testedBackups exist, but nobody has restored from them.
What you receive

Deliverables, written down.

  • Findings ranked by risk and cost
  • Fixes for sign-in, updates, backups and email
  • An identity and access model by role
  • An incident response plan, tested with your team
  • Evidence prepared for audits and questionnaires
How we deliver
  1. DiscoverGoals, current systems, constraints and who decides.
  2. AssessGaps, risks and options, ranked by impact and cost.
  3. PlanA written scope, timeline and budget, agreed before work starts.
  4. DeliverThe agreed work, tested, with changes approved by you.
  5. Hand overDocumentation, access and training for the people who run it.
Ways to engage

Choose the arrangement.

Compare all arrangements
  • Consulting or assessmentAdvice, a review or a plan before you commit.Ask about this
  • Project deliveryA defined piece of work delivered, tested and handed over.Ask about this
  • Managed IT supportOngoing support, maintenance and monitoring under one agreement.Ask about this
Example engagements

How this usually looks.

Illustrative scenarios that show how an engagement is shaped. They are examples, not completed client projects.

Illustrative scenario

Cybersecurity Assessment

Business challenge
An organisation handling customer data has never had an independent security review and needs to know where it is exposed.
Proposed solution
A review of accounts, devices, email, backups and the network against a recognised framework.
Delivery approach
Interviews, configuration review and testing over an agreed period, then findings ranked by risk and cost and agreed with leadership.
Intended outcome
A short list of fixes in order of importance, and evidence for customer and insurer questionnaires.
Questions

What people ask first.

Why are small businesses targeted by cybercriminals?

They hold money and data but usually have fewer defences. Verizon’s 2025 Data Breach Investigations Report found ransomware in 88% of breaches at small and mid-sized businesses, against 39% at larger organisations.

What are SPF, DKIM and DMARC?

Three DNS records that let receiving mail servers check that email claiming to come from your domain really does. Without them, your messages are more likely to land in spam and your domain is easier to impersonate.

How serious is cybercrime in Africa?

INTERPOL’s 2025 Africa Cyberthreat Assessment reports that cybercrime makes up more than 30% of all reported crime in Western and Eastern Africa, and that only 30% of the countries surveyed have an incident reporting system.

Which cyber laws apply in Guinea and Sierra Leone?

Guinea’s 2016 law on cybersecurity and personal data protection and Sierra Leone’s Cyber Security and Crime Act of 2021 are the main ones, and Sierra Leone has a data protection bill in preparation. We map what they ask of your operation with local counsel; this is not legal advice.

Related services

Often used together.

Tell us what you need.

Describe the work in a few lines. We reply with questions or a proposed next step, and nothing is agreed until you have a written scope.

Request a Security Assessment