Your Business Is Being
Attacked Right Now.
South Africa is the most targeted country in Africa for cybercrime. Hackers hit South African businesses 1,863 times every week. Most companies only find out after the damage is done. MaxiCyber catches attackers before they reach you — automatically, 24/7.
Your Firewall Wasn't Built
for Today's Attacks
Traditional cybersecurity tools — antivirus, firewalls, standard endpoint protection — were built for a world where attacks were simpler and slower. Today's attackers use AI, steal credentials, disguise themselves as legitimate users, and move through your network for weeks before any alarm sounds. By the time your current tools detect a threat, the damage is already measured in millions.
Firewalls can't stop stolen credentials
Firewalls block known bad traffic — but they can't stop a hacker who logs in with legitimate stolen credentials. 95% of South African breaches involve human error or credential theft. Once an attacker is inside, your firewall is blind.
AI phishing defeats human training
Generative AI now creates hyper-personalised emails that even experienced IT teams can't distinguish from genuine communication. Business Email Compromise is up 26% in South Africa — and one convincing email can trigger a R49 million breach.
IT providers manage — they don't hunt
Most IT providers manage your infrastructure and respond after something breaks. They're not actively hunting for adversaries moving through your network right now. The average South African company takes 49 days to discover a breach. Reactive support isn't protection.
The uncomfortable truth: If your security strategy relies on tools that only respond to threats they already know about, you are not protected — you are simply waiting to find out.
We Don't Just Defend.
We Deceive, Disrupt, and Deny.
MaxiCyber works like a human immune system. Instead of waiting to get sick and then treating the illness, it patrols your entire digital environment — catching intruders before they can do any damage.
The entire cycle — detect, analyse, block — runs automatically, 24/7, with no human in the loop required. Your team wakes up to a report, not a crisis.
Catch them in the act
We place digital honey traps throughout your network. They look exactly like your real systems — your login portals, your file servers, your devices. The moment an attacker touches one, we know. No innocent user ever triggers these traps. Zero false alarms.
Turn their attack into intelligence
Every move the attacker makes teaches us exactly how they operate. Our AI analyses their tools, techniques, and intentions in real time — and automatically updates your defences everywhere, within 5 seconds, without a human having to press a button.
Block them before they reach your real systems
The intelligence from the traps flows automatically to your firewall, your DNS layer, and every endpoint — building a wall around your real systems before the attacker even knows their cover is blown. We have blocked threats up to 45 days before they were publicly known.
1. Detection (Deceive)
BaitHive Decoy and TCP Mirage capture adversarial payloads, behavioral sequences, and fingerprints from inbound interactions.
2. Intelligence (Disrupt)
CATIS ingests telemetry, enriches via AI, and produces predictive threat intelligence 1–45 days before public disclosure.
3. Prevention (Deny)
NanoFirewall, ShenDNS, and endpoints receive preemptive blocking rules for autonomous enforcement at the edge.
4. Investigation
ASPEN receives enriched context for correlation, deep-dive hunting, and SOC workflow with sub-10ms latency.
One Platform. Every Layer
of Your Business Protected.
Start with a single component or deploy the full system. Everything is designed to work together — or alongside your existing security tools.
BaitHive Decoy
Digital honey traps that look exactly like your real systems — login portals, file servers, devices. The moment an attacker touches one, we know. No legitimate user ever triggers these. Zero false alarms.
TCP Mirage
Sits at the very edge of your network, catching attackers at first contact — before they have even begun their attack. Works on any device, including old industrial equipment and IoT infrastructure.
CATIS Intelligence
The brain of the platform. Turns every attacker interaction into predictive blocking intelligence — automatically protecting you against threats 1–45 days before they are publicly known to exist.
NanoFirewall
A self-learning firewall that fits on any device — even older factory equipment and IoT devices most security tools cannot reach. Updates its threat rules in under 5 seconds, continuously, automatically.
ShenDNS
Blocks malicious connections before they even load — at the domain name level. Also gives management clear visibility into which apps and services staff are using, including risky shadow IT tools.
ASPEN Analytics
Your security command centre. See everything happening across your business in real time. Investigate threats using plain English — no deep technical expertise required. 50K EPS throughput.
Vulnerability Scan
Instant external assessment of what attackers can see when they look at your business online. Delivered as a plain-English PDF report within 24 hours. No software to install. No obligation.
MIRT Response Team
When a serious attack hits, our team deploys within 2 hours to contain the breach, track the attacker, and get your business back online — with minimal disruption to operations.
Every component is designed to work independently or as part of the full platform. Start where you need to.
Start with a Free ScanThe Security Pillars
The platform loop is fully autonomous and self-reinforcing. Deception signals feed intelligence production, which feeds prevention enforcement, which feeds analytic investigation — continuously.
Deception Mesh
Zero-false-positive deception surfaces capture adversarial behavior at application and transport layers before production systems are reached.
BaitHive Decoy
High-fidelity cyber clone trap (Application & HTTP Layer). Exposes realistic, vendor-specific clone interfaces across IoT devices, edge infrastructure, and corporate portals. Emulates exact HTTP responses and authentication flows.
- • Active Response Shaping
- • JA4H + JA4T Fingerprinting
- • Synthetic Vulnerability Surfaces
TCP Mirage
Transport-layer clone trap. Silently mirrors any TCP-based service across any port, intercepting reconnaissance at the first packet. Functions as an extreme low-overhead precision deception instrument.
- • Extreme Low Overhead
- • Topology Obfuscation
- • Encrypted Traffic Coverage
Intelligence Backbone
Transforms live attacker telemetry into predictive blocking intelligence distributed autonomously across the prevention stack.
CATIS (Cognitive and Adaptive Threat Intelligence Service)
Ingests real-time attacker telemetry from the deception sensor network, enriches it using adaptive AI/ML, and distributes actionable, high-fidelity threat intelligence. Operates a crowd immunity model giving predictive cover 1 to 45 days before public vulnerability disclosure.
Prevention Layer
Enforces preemptive blocking rules at network edge, DNS layer, and host — including ARM-class and IoT/OT devices.
ShenDNS
Intelligent DNS enforcement and visibility platform. Preemptively blocks connections to malicious infrastructure (C2 channels, phishing domains) before they are established. Provides organizational visibility into shadow IT usage.
NanoFirewall
AI-powered, self-learning edge firewall engineered for rapid deployment. With a footprint of ~100MB, it consumes CATIS threat intelligence and applies preemptive blocking rules autonomously in under 5 seconds.
Security Analytics
Correlates telemetry from all components in a unified analyst workspace with sub-10ms correlation and LLM-powered investigation.
ASPEN Platform
High-performance security analytics platform where deception signals, CATIS threat intelligence, DNS enforcement events, and endpoint telemetry converge. Sustained throughput of 50,000 EPS engineered for large enterprise and government environments.
- Sub-10ms Real-Time Correlation
- Multi-Dimensional Behavioral Analysis
- Post-Write Correlation (Threat Hunting)
- LLM-Based Interactive Console
Major Incident Response Team
When a serious security incident strikes, speed and expertise are everything. MIRT delivers both — combining proven human capability with purpose-built tooling to contain, eradicate, and recover from the most sophisticated attacks.
Engagement Model
Rapid On-Site Forensics
Proprietary toolset deployed immediately on-premises. Produces a first-picture attack timeline — patient zero, lateral movement, exfiltration indicators — within hours, independent of existing SIEM or logging infrastructure. Air-gap capable.
Attacker Identification & Isolation
Internal honeypots track active adversary movement. Secondary tamper-resistant endpoint protection layer remains effective even when primary defenses are compromised. Surgical host isolation minimizes business disruption.
Layered Outbound Traffic Control
Proprietary methodology enabling granular, per-layer outbound traffic restrictions — adjustable within minutes based on real-time risk — with no impact to legitimate business operations. Blocks C2 channels and exfiltration paths while preserving necessary connectivity.
Enabling National Threat
Intelligence for South Africa
South Africa faces a rapidly escalating cyber threat landscape — state-sponsored actors targeting SOEs, ransomware groups disrupting financial and municipal services, and pervasive attacks on critical infrastructure. MaxiCyber's full ACIS platform creates a sovereign, nationally federated intelligence mesh that transforms every attack attempt into shared defensive intelligence.
By deploying deception infrastructure across government, financial, energy, and telecommunications sectors, we establish a real-time, cross-sector threat picture — giving South Africa's national defenders early warning and the tools to act ahead of threat actors.
How the National Intelligence Loop Works
Each product feeds the next — creating a self-reinforcing, sovereign intelligence cycle
Deception Deployed
High-fidelity decoys distributed across government, SOE, and critical infrastructure networks capture real attacker behaviour targeting South Africa.
Intelligence Produced
Raw telemetry is enriched by AI, producing sovereign threat intelligence specific to South African threat actors — shared across all connected defenders.
Prevention Enforced
Preemptive blocking rules flow to every endpoint and DNS resolver across the national mesh — stopping known attack vectors before they trigger.
Threats Investigated
All signals converge in a national SOC workspace — enabling analysts to correlate cross-sector incidents and hunt persistent threats at scale.
Incidents Contained
When breaches occur, MIRT deploys within hours. Continuous vulnerability scanning ensures the national perimeter stays mapped and hardened.
A Cyberattack Isn't Just a Security Problem.
It's a Legal One.
Under South Africa's Protection of Personal Information Act (POPIA), every business that holds customer data has a legal obligation to protect it — and to report any breach immediately. The 2025 amendments have significantly tightened enforcement obligations, with random SME audits, mandatory breach reporting portals, and stricter third-party vendor liability now in effect.
Non-compliance fines reach R10 million per violation. The Department of Justice was fined R5 million in 2023 simply for failing to renew their security software. The era of POPIA as a theoretical risk is over.
MaxiCyber's platform gives you the detection speed, breach documentation, and reporting tools to demonstrate to the Information Regulator that your organisation took every reasonable step to protect personal data — reducing both your liability exposure and the severity of any potential enforcement action.
Find Out How Exposed Your Business Really Is — Free
Right now, automated scanners are crawling the internet — probing South African business domains for weak points. They don't send warnings. Our free scan does exactly what those scanners do, but shows the results to you first.
In 2 minutes, you'll know what hackers already know about your business.
- Open ports and exposed services visible from the internet
- DNS configuration weaknesses attackers exploit for phishing
- Known vulnerabilities in your web infrastructure
- Whether your domain appears in active attacker intelligence feeds
- Email security misconfigurations that enable phishing in your name
- Forgotten subdomains that create entry points before you find them
MaxiCyber is listed on the Microsoft Azure Marketplace, enabling enterprise and government customers to procure the platform through existing Microsoft licensing agreements — simplifying billing, procurement, and compliance documentation.
Don't Wait for a Breach.
Start With a Free Scan Today.
The average South African business has already been probed hundreds of times this week. Find out what attackers see when they look at your business — in 2 minutes, for free, with no obligation.