We are always
watching.

Most IT companies stop at the laptop. We watch the inbox, the network, the people who click things, and the paperwork a regulator will ask for. One team accountable for all of it, since 1998.

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Est. 1998 Ballito & Sandton South Africa
Accredited by Microsoft Fortinet ESET Acronis Veeam Cisco
Monitoring: active 00:00:00 SAST
02:14 Sign-in blocked, impossible travel, Lagos Blocked
03:47 Inbox rule created by non-owner, quarantined Held
04:02 Credential pair found in a leaked data set Rotated
05:30 Backup restore verified, 14 of 14 volumes Passed
06:11 Patch ring 2 deployed across 84 endpoints Done
Events reviewed while nobody was in the building: 0

Illustration of a monitored environment

“We’re too small
to be a target.”

Attackers do not choose you. Software does. Automated tools scan whole ranges of the internet looking for an open door. They do not know whether you are a law firm in Ballito or a logistics business in Frankfurt.

You are not too small. You are exactly who they are looking for.

43%

of all cyberattacks target small and medium businesses specifically

more likely to be targeted than a large enterprise

Sources available on request.

Nobody gets breached at 2pm on a Tuesday. Attacks land on a Friday evening, over a long weekend, on Christmas Eve. Not by coincidence, but because that is when nobody is watching.

A week is 168 hours.
You are open for 45.

Attacks do not keep office hours. The distance between when your business is watched and when it is not is the single biggest reason an incident becomes a disaster. It lands on a Friday evening, and nobody looks until Monday.

Seventy three percent of the week, nobody is looking.

That is the window. Closing it is what the third layer is for.

Read what one unwatched weekend cost
One week, hour by hour Office hours Nobody looking
A week of 168 hours, with a normal working week highlighted A grid of 168 squares, one for each hour of the week, seven rows of twenty four. The forty five squares covering nine in the morning to six in the evening, Monday to Friday, are lit. The remaining one hundred and twenty three are not. 00 06 12 18 23 MON TUE WED THU FRI SAT SUN
Covered by a normal working week 45 / 168 hrs  ·  27%
Covered with LANTEK watching 168 / 168 hrs  ·  100%

Your tools are layer one and two.
We are the third.

Almost every business already owns two layers of protection and does not know it. The devices and the people are the first. The security built into the platforms you already pay for is the second. Both are real, and neither one watches itself. The third layer is a team who reads what those first two produce, acts on it at three in the morning, and can show a regulator the evidence afterwards.

LANTEK as the third layer of defence Four nested rectangles. At the centre, your data. Around it, layer one: your devices and people. Around that, layer two: the controls built into the platforms you already pay for. Around everything, layer three: LANTEK, watching, responding and recording. Four threats approach from outside and are stopped at the LANTEK boundary. Layer 3 / LANTEK Someone watching, and acting Detect  ·  Respond  ·  Record the evidence Layer 2 / Platform controls Firewall, multi-factor, mail filtering, backup Layer 1 / Devices & people Your data Clients, money, reputation Phishing Credential theft Ransomware A compromised supplier

Defence in depth: where LANTEK sits

Layer 01 Devices and people The laptops, the servers, the phones, and the person who clicks the link on a Friday afternoon. This layer you already own. It is also the layer that fails first, and it never reports itself.
Layer 02 Platform controls Multi-factor, mail filtering, the firewall, the backup job. Most businesses are already paying for these and running a fraction of what they bought. Configured properly they stop a great deal. Nobody reads their alerts.
Layer 03 / LANTEK Someone watching We tune what layers one and two produce, watch it around the clock, and act on it. Then we write down what happened, so that when a client, an insurer or the Information Regulator asks, the answer is a document rather than a memory. What that covers

Everything your business runs on, watched by one team.

Security is not a product bolted on at the end. It is six layers of control, built into your environment from the first day, and one accountable team rather than five suppliers pointing at each other when something goes wrong.

01 Device The laptop, desktop or server itself. Patched on a schedule, encrypted, and carrying detection that reports somewhere a human reads.
02 Identity and email Who is logging in, from where, and what lands in the inbox. The single most attacked surface in any small business, and the one most often left on defaults.
03 Network The edge, the segmentation, and the traffic moving between systems. Built so that one compromised machine does not become every machine.
05 / the one almost nobody has Someone watching Detection and response, around the clock, acting the moment something is found rather than filing it for Monday. Most of what we catch happens while the building is empty.
Activity across a week, with working hours shaded An illustration of the shape of a monitored week. Activity continues through the night and over the weekend, outside the shaded working hours.

Shaded bands are working hours  ·  illustration

04 People Training, simulated phishing, and the habits that stop most real attacks before any technology has to. The cheapest control you will ever buy.
06 The paperwork Policies, registers and evidence that prove it was all in place. The part that decides whether an incident becomes a fine.
All of it Eight services sit across these six layers Take one on its own, or hand over the whole environment. See all eight →

We build to a framework, not to a feeling.

The NIST Cybersecurity Framework 2.0 is the structure a regulator, an insurer and a large client all recognise. Six functions. Every control we put in your environment maps to one of them, which is what turns a pile of software into something you can be assessed on.

The six functions of the NIST Cybersecurity Framework 2.0 Govern sits at the centre. Identify, Protect, Detect, Respond and Recover form a ring around it. The table beside this diagram gives the full detail in text. Identify Protect Detect Respond Recover Govern Policy and oversight

NIST Cybersecurity Framework 2.0: six functions

GOVERN

Policy and oversight

Security and acceptable use policies, Information Officer support, compliance registers, and data processing agreements with every vendor that touches your data, so accountability is documented rather than assumed.

IDENTIFY

Know your risk

Asset registers, data classification, quarterly reviewed risk registers, end of life software flagging and data flow mapping. You cannot protect what you cannot see.

PROTECT

Lock it down

Enforced multi-factor authentication, least privilege access, endpoint detection and response on every device, proactive patch management, encryption, email security, DNS filtering, and backup that is routinely tested.

DETECT

Always watching

Round the clock monitoring, alerting on suspicious activity and ransomware indicators, dark web monitoring, and regular vulnerability scanning.

RESPOND

Act fast

Documented incident response plans, tested containment, evidence preservation, clear client notification service levels, and support for POPIA and Cybercrimes Act reporting. Calm, fast and by the book.

RECOVER

Bounce back

Tested business continuity and disaster recovery, verified backups, rehearsed restores, and lessons that feed back into the plan, because getting back to work is what actually matters.

Also in scope

POPIA and the Cybercrimes Act are not separate projects. Section 19 of POPIA already requires appropriate technical and organisational measures, and the maximum administrative fine is R10 million. The same six functions satisfy both, which is why we build to them once rather than assembling evidence in a panic after somebody asks.

Eight services.
One accountable team.

Run and protect the devices your team works from, the cloud tools they use every day, and the network and servers underneath it all. Take any one of these on its own, or the whole environment. Nothing here is sold by the seat on a web page. What it costs depends on what you actually run, and we would rather look first.

Choose the sector closest to your business.

What a regulator expects, what an attacker goes after, and what it costs you to be down for a morning are all different depending on what you do. Each of these says what changes.

What of yours is
already out there?

Company email addresses, passwords and customer data get traded in the places stolen and leaked data ends up. Most businesses have something circulating and no idea it is there. A single reused password from a breach four years ago is still a working key today.

  • We scan for your domain, your people and your credentials
  • Thirty minutes walking you through what came back, in plain language
  • You keep the report whether or not you ever work with us
Run my free dark web scan
lantek / exposure scan
> lantek scan --domain yourcompany.co.za
initialising ok
breach corpora 2,410 sources
paste and market listings indexed
 
scanning company email addresses done
scanning credential pairs done
scanning customer records done
 
FOUND 4 addresses across 2 breach sets
FOUND 1 password still in active use
FOUND 2 addresses on a market listing
 
> report ready. 30 minutes to walk you through it.

Illustration of a completed scan

Accreditation is not decoration.

Each one represents assessments passed, engineers certified and kept current, and a direct line into vendor engineering when something goes wrong at your premises at eleven at night.

Ask any IT provider for their current accreditation list. The length of the answer, and how quickly it arrives, tells you most of what you need to know.

MicrosoftSolutions Partner
FortinetAuthorized Partner
ESETGold Partner
AcronisGold Service Provider
VeeamAuthorized Reseller
Dell TechnologiesAuthorized Partner
Lenovo 360Authorized Partner
HPET2 Solution Provider
CiscoRegistered Partner
The controls we run
Endpoint detection and response
Round the clock monitoring
Email security and impersonation control
Multi-factor and conditional access
DNS and web filtering
Immutable, tested backup
Vulnerability scanning
Penetration testing
Simulated phishing
Dark web monitoring
Patch orchestration
Network segmentation
In house

Security is led in house by a CISSP certified security specialist, not subcontracted to whoever answers first. It is the difference between an alert being forwarded to you and an alert being dealt with.

Clients who have stayed a long time.

Public sector appointment

Appointed IT specialist advisor to the Bid Committees of Dube TradePort Corporation, the KwaZulu-Natal parastatal, from October 2025 to October 2028.

LANTEK ensure that we are able to service our clients and remain competitive. They are extremely proactive, efficient and speak in a language we understand. Our partnership with LANTEK is one of the best business decisions we have made.

Tony B

Director, Activ8 Group

LANTEK IT Solutions is our preferred service provider and has been for the past 15 years. The level of professionalism and calibre of the team is excellent.

Mrs P. Pillay

SA Branch Manager, HYTORC South Africa

We have worked with LANTEK on the infrastructure design, project management and implementation for both our Cato Ridge and Scottburgh facilities. They work in an efficient and professional manner.

Richard Mills

CEO, Hibiscus Hospitals

Businesses we look after
Hibiscus Hospitals
Dube TradePort
Since 1998 Twenty eight years trading, through every shift in what an attack looks like.
Offices 02 Ballito in KwaZulu-Natal and Sandton in Gauteng, with nationwide remote support.
B-BBEE Level 1 100% Black owned. CSD registered, supplier number MAAA0008129.
Framework NIST 2.0 Every control mapped to one of the six functions, and to POPIA alongside it.

A free dark web scan
and thirty minutes.

We scan for your company email addresses, passwords and customer data in the places stolen and leaked data gets traded, then spend thirty minutes walking you through what came back and what it actually means. No pressure, no jargon, no obligation. You keep the report either way.

Worried about what it takes to move?

Changing IT provider is the single biggest reason businesses stay somewhere they have outgrown. We plan the move around your working week, and we help carry the cost of getting across. Ask us how that works when we speak.

Already have an IT company?

Good. The scan still costs nothing and the report is yours. Plenty of the businesses we look after came to us after finding out what their previous provider had never checked.

Questions people actually ask
What is a dark web scan, and what does it actually look for?
A dark web scan searches breach corpora, paste sites and market listings for data belonging to your business: company email addresses, the passwords attached to them, and customer records. It tells you what is already circulating where stolen and leaked data is traded. LANTEK runs this free, and you keep the report whether or not you become a client.
How long does the free health check take?
Thirty minutes. We walk you through what the scan returned, what it means in plain language, and which of it needs attention this week rather than this year. There is no obligation and no pressure at the end of it.
We are a small business. Are we really a target?
Yes. 43% of all cyberattacks target small and medium businesses specifically, and a small business is three times more likely to be targeted than a large enterprise. Attackers do not choose you by name. Automated tools scan whole ranges of the internet looking for an open door, and they do not know or care what you do.
What does LANTEK do that our current IT company does not?
Most IT support stops at the device. LANTEK covers the device, identity and email, the network, the people, round the clock detection and response, and the compliance evidence underneath all of it. The layer most businesses are missing is the fifth one: somebody watching outside office hours, and acting rather than filing it for Monday morning.
Does this help with POPIA?
Directly. Section 19 of POPIA requires appropriate technical and organisational measures to secure personal information, and the maximum administrative fine is R10 million. LANTEK builds to the NIST Cybersecurity Framework 2.0, which covers the same ground, and maintains the policies, registers and evidence that demonstrate it was in place before anything went wrong rather than after.
Where is LANTEK based, and do you cover our area?
LANTEK Computers has offices in Ballito, KwaZulu-Natal and Sandton, Gauteng, and has been trading since 1998. On-site work runs from both offices, and monitoring, response and support run nationwide.
How hard is it to move from our current provider?
Less than most people expect, and it is the main reason businesses stay somewhere they have outgrown. We plan the move around your working week rather than ours, and we help carry the cost of getting across. Ask how that works when we speak.