Cybersecurity
We secure the systems Ethiopian businesses actually run: the website customers buy through, the ERP that holds the accounts, the app your team logs into every morning, and the data underneath all of it.
Most organisations do not come to us with a security strategy. They come because something happened, or because a regulator, a bank or a customer has started asking questions they cannot answer. Both are reasonable places to start, and both begin the same way: find out what is actually exposed before deciding what to spend.
What usually brings people here
You do not need to know the vocabulary to know you have a problem. These are the situations we are called into, in roughly the order they happen.
- Something already went wrong - an account was taken over, a site was defaced, invoices were altered, or data left the building - and you need to know how, whether it is still happening, and what to tell people.
- You are having software built, or you have just had it built, and nobody has checked whether it is safe to put real customer data into it.
- A bank, an insurer, a partner or an international client has sent you a security questionnaire and you cannot honestly answer it.
- You handle personal data - patients, students, customers, employees - and Ethiopia's Personal Data Protection Proclamation now places real obligations on you regardless of your size.
- You operate in one of the sectors named in the Critical Infrastructure Cybersecurity Proclamation, and you need to understand what is now required of you.
- Nothing is wrong, and you would like to keep it that way, which is by a wide margin the cheapest moment to do this.
What we do
Find out what is exposed
A security assessment of your website, applications, network and cloud accounts: what an attacker can reach, what they could do with it, and which handful of issues actually matter. You get findings in plain language, ranked by real risk, not a scanner dump.
Build it secure in the first place
Secure development on the systems we build for you and review of systems built by others: authentication and access control, safe handling of payment and personal data, dependency and vulnerability review, and hardened deployment. The cheapest security work is the kind that happens before launch.
Meet the legal obligations
Practical compliance with Ethiopia's Personal Data Protection Proclamation 1321/2024 and the Critical Infrastructure Cybersecurity Proclamation 1426/2026: what applies to you, what you must have written down, breach notification you can actually execute inside the deadline, and the engineering work behind it.
Keep watching after we leave
Monitoring, patching, backup and recovery testing, and a response plan with named people and real phone numbers. Security is not a project that finishes; most breaches exploit something that was known and left alone.
Why an engineering firm rather than a reseller
Much of what is sold as cybersecurity in Addis Ababa is licences: a firewall, an antivirus subscription, an appliance in a rack. Those have their place, and they will not save you, because the way most Ethiopian businesses actually get hurt is through their own software - a login that can be bypassed, an upload that runs code, an API that returns another customer's records, a backup nobody ever tried to restore.
We build those systems for a living. That is the whole argument: the people reviewing your application are the people who write applications, and the fixes come back as working code and configuration rather than as a PDF telling you to consult a developer.
Frequently asked questions
Ready to Implement Cybersecurity?
Speak directly with our senior software and AI architects in Addis Ababa. We review your requirements and provide an honest technical roadmap.