48%
of the breaches Verizon analysed in its 2026 report involved ransomware.
Source: Verizon, 2026 Data Breach Investigations Report, executive summary
Offensive by Nature, Defensive by Design
Enterprise cybersecurity, sized for small business
Attackers don't only go after the biggest companies. They go after the easiest. Vikele gives South African small and mid-sized businesses the testing, monitoring and hardening that large enterprises take for granted, in modular pieces you can afford.
The risk
Why SMEs are a target
Criminal groups run ransomware and invoice fraud as a volume business. They go after whoever has the fewest defences. Smaller companies usually have the least cover. These figures come from published industry research. smaller companies usually have the least cover. These figures come from published industry research.
US$1.08m
average cost for a South African organisation to recover from a ransomware attack, excluding any ransom paid. About R17 million at mid-2026 rates.
Source: Sophos, The State of Ransomware in South Africa 2026, a survey of 135 South African organisations with 100 to 5,000 staff
#1
South Africa recorded the most ransomware detections in Africa in 2024: 17,849, according to Trend Micro data.
2×
Small organisations, by revenue, were twice as likely as large ones to rate their own cyber resilience as insufficient.
Source: World Economic Forum, Global Cybersecurity Outlook 2026
The good news: the basics work. Microsoft Research (2023) found that multi-factor authentication alone cuts the risk of account compromise by 99.2%. Most of what protects an SME is well understood and affordable. The hard part is configuring it properly, keeping it that way and noticing when something slips.
How we help
Security that fits a small business
Four layers, delivered by experts. Start with the one that closes your biggest gap and add the rest as you grow.
Assess
Find out how an attacker would get in.
- Penetration testing: external, internal and web applications
- Active Directory, Microsoft 365 and cloud security assessments
- Code review and application security testing
- Vulnerability scanning with prioritised fixes
- Governance, policy and third-party assurance reviews
Protect
Close the gaps before anyone uses them.
- Identity, device and cloud hardening (Microsoft 365, AWS, Google Cloud)
- Firewall deployment and management
- Endpoint protection, patching and encryption
- Mail security against phishing and business email compromise
- Licensing and hardware, managed so nothing lapses
Detect and respond
Catch what gets through, at 3am as well as 3pm.
- 24/7 security operations centre
- Detection and response across endpoints, identities, email and cloud
- Threat hunting and alert triage
- Incident response
Recover
Get back to work and prove what happened.
- Backup and disaster recovery for servers, workstations and Microsoft 365
- Tested restores, so backups work when needed
- Post-incident reports for leadership, insurers and auditors
Modular pricing
No enterprise minimums. Buy the layers you need now and add the rest as you grow.
One point of accountability
Assessment, hardening, monitoring and recovery coordinated by one team, so nothing falls between vendors.
Reports both sides can use
Plain-language risk summaries for leadership, prioritised fixes for your technical team.
Who we are
Offensive by nature, defensive by design
Vikele Solutions is a South African cybersecurity company, founded in 2020 with offices in Johannesburg and Cape Town, whose team brings more than 40 years of combined experience in offensive and defensive security.
We believe enterprise-grade security should be available to every business, so we deliver it as modular services an SME can afford, backed by experts who are accountable for the result.
Our team holds multiple security certifications, including:
Offensive Security Certified Professional
Certified Red Team Professional
Certified Red Team Expert
Certified Ethical Hacker
Talk to us
Find out where you stand
A 30-minute conversation about your environment, with no obligation and no sales deck. We will tell you honestly what we would fix first.