28 years watching this industry change.
We were there when a virus was just noise. We are still here now that criminals do their homework.
What we have watched happen
1998, LANTEK opens its doors.
In South Africa, in the early days of small business IT. We have been in the room for every shift since.
Early 2000s, a nuisance rather than a threat.
Melissa. Love Bug. These spread fast and caused chaos: jammed inboxes, crashed systems, wasted days. But nobody behind them was trying to steal a cent or touch your data. It was mischief, not malice.
The 2010s, the threat got serious.
Attacks stopped being random noise and started causing real damage. Money lost, operations stopped, businesses knocked offline for days at a time. This was no longer mischief. It had consequences.
2014 to today, malicious, dangerous and targeted.
Now your data gets exposed, or encrypted and held for ransom. Phishing emails are crafted to fool one specific person. And the people being targeted are not random. They are your directors, your managers, the people who can approve a payment.
28 years taught us this: the businesses that get hurt worst are the ones who waited to see what would happen.
That is not how we work with our clients now.
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.