IT Security

We partner with one of the leading managed IT services vendors in Africa, with a  global presence. Our holistic suite of solutions provides comprehensive weaponry and proactive defence against the host of threats that afflict businesses today from endpoint protection, managed firewalls, and advanced Fortigate reporting, to WAN and LAN optimisation; e-mail content management, and mobile device management.

Solutions are packaged to harness the capabilities of best-of-breed technologies including Symantec Brightmail, Riverbed, Fortinet, logMojo, and XenMobile. Solutions are hosted upstream at our partners highly-secure, local data centres.

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Vulnerability Assessment


In the modern world, the security of your business’ sensitive data is a priority. That’s why First Tier offers Vulnerability Assessment, a comprehensive service, compliance and remediation management solution that provides your business the ability to identify vulnerabilities within a system. 

The service includes scans of web applications, databases, networks, operating systems and other software products to accurately locate threats, assess their risk to the environment and devise amelioratory plans. 

What does it offer your enterprise?
  • An accurate view of the security posture of the IT environment
  • Access to advice and support from IT security professionals (certified information systems security professional [CISSP])
  • Actionable intelligence to guide decisions and action plans for remedying vulnerabilities in order to improve your organisation’s IT security

First Tier Managed Firewall


Let us be your business' first line of defence against unauthorised access to your network and malicious software threats. We can help keep your valuable data secure by protecting your corporate network, internet gateways and hosted environments.

Our firewalls safeguards your confidential, business-critical data by securing your networks, hosted environments and internet gateways against unauthorised access and malicious software.

In addition, this fully managed product will help you comply with regulatory and corporate policies and simplify the management of your network perimeter security.

While we fully manage this product 24 hours per day, all-year round, we understand that you need added control of and visibility over your network's security, so First Tier Managed Firewall lets you remotely alter permit rules, destination IP addresses and more simply by logging in to a secure customer portal.


What does it offer your enterprise?

First Tier’s Managed Firewall is the ideal security solution for your business as it offers the following:

  • A fully managed firewall solution
  • No technology lock-in
  • No capital expenditure
  • Reduced operational expenditure
  • Firewall management portal for customer control
  • Port blocking and packet inspection