10 South African Entrepreneurs At The Forefront Of Cyber Security
10 South African Entrepreneurs At The Forefront Of Cyber Security. These entrepreneurs have been instrumental in advancing the cybersecurity landscape in South Africa, contributing innovative solutions and leading their companies to address the growing cyber threats faced by businesses and individuals alike. Below are some of the South African entrepreneurs at the forefront of cybersecurity.
Haroon Meer
Founder of Thinkst, a cybersecurity firm known for its Thinkst Canary product, which helps detect breaches quickly and effectively.
Craig Rosewarne
Founder of Wolfpack Information Risk, a company specializing in information security advisory and threat intelligence services. Wolfpack Information Risk was established in 2011. Wolfpack’s vision is to be the catalyst that drives the greatest positive Cybersecurity impact on the African continent. It does this by being passionate defenders of countries, companies and communities from cyber threats. Wolfpack provide expert Information Risk and Cybersecurity consultancy services.
Anna Collard
Founder of Popcorn Training, which provides cybersecurity awareness training through engaging content and storytelling.
Charl Ueckermann
Founder of AVeS Cyber Security, offering a range of services including cybersecurity risk management and IT governance. AVeS combines expert knowledge and services with leading technologies to provide comprehensive information security and infrastructure solutions.
Orrin Klopper
Founder of Netsurit, a company providing managed IT and cybersecurity services to help businesses secure their digital environments. Netsurit is a managed IT, Cloud, and Security service provider (MSP). The company helps organizations innovate and embrace digital transformation to ensure tech challenges are never in the way of achieving their dreams and success as a company. Klopper co-founded the company on a dream and a vision. Today, Netsurit has 350+ brilliant individuals across 5 office HQs working hard to help companies like Galderma, Private Wealth Management, RCS (BNP Paribas), Eurolux and more achieve their dreams.
Richard Firth
He is currently the Chairman and CEO of MIP Holdings, a “software as a service” company that owns and supplies software administration solutions to the financial, healthcare, life, employee benefits, group risk, warranty, maintenance, legal, funeral and lending industries. MIP is widely acknowledged as one the leading software development companies where we employ 300+ technologists and software engineers who look after the wellbeing of over 13,000,000 policy holders in the financial services industry.
Neels Engelbrecht
He is the founder of Crypto Hamster, a cryptocurrency algorithmic volatility trading program or ‘bot’ (that is called ‘the Hamster’) that operates a simple yet effective automated volatility trading strategy which has yielded consistent returns for its investors through the ups and down of the crypto markets.
Gur Geva
Gur Geva is the founder of iiDENTIFii, a market leader in remote biometric authentication with a vision to stop identity theft globally. The company’s technology has been proven at scale, meeting the standards of the highest globally ranked Audit & Assurance Firm and accepted legal standards. The remote digital biometric identity authentication process is user-friendly and frictionless on any device, from anywhere.
Sam Hutchinson
He is the co-founder of Sendmarc. Sendmarc automates the process of protecting a domain from being used in email impersonation and phishing attacks. The company enables organisations to quickly configure DMARC, SPF, and DKIM to authorise legitimate senders. Its tools allow it to easily understand who is sending email from a domain, where the threats lie, and the steps needed to authorise senders.
Ralph Pecker
Ralph Pecker is the co-founder of Paycode. The company’s vision is giving biometric identity and access to financial services to the unbaked. Paycode provides a secure end-to-end payment gateway that makes sending and receiving payments easy. Its industry-leading payments solution works for anyone, anywhere using its custom-designed technology in security, biometric identification, verification and authentication, fraud prevention, agent banking, offline real-time transacting, know-your-customer (KYC) and digital money.
