Reed Sentinel · Cyber protection for small business

Continuous protection for South African small businesses on three fronts: your email, your machines and your network, with plain-English alerts to your phone. And a full penetration test when you want to be sure.

Phone 082 800 1008 · email derek@derekreed.co · Benoni, Gauteng.

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    Penetration testing · South Africa

    South Africa is Africa’s most targeted country for ransomware and email fraud.

    Most small businesses here have never had anyone check whether it could happen to them. Scroll, and we will show you how we check.

    Derek Reed

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    Penetration testing · South Africa

    South Africa is Africa’s most targeted country for ransomware and email fraud.

    Most small businesses here have never had anyone check whether it could happen to them.

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    Derek Reed

    Mia · Reed SentinelA penetration test once a year is no longer enough. In today's AI world, your protection has to stay on every day.

    Reed Sentinel · part of Reed Corp.

    Security that stays on, after the test is done.

    Most companies get checked once and hope for the best. We protect you continuously on the three fronts attackers actually use: your email, your machines and your network.

    The threat is real, and it's local.

    No. 1in Africa for ransomware and business-email attacks.
    +140%more of these attacks than last year (first half of 2026).

    What we do for you

    Three layers of defence. Working together.

    Attackers don't pick just one door. Neither do we. Each layer covers a different way in, and each one tells you, in plain words, the moment something's wrong.

    01 · MAIL

    Inbox & Identity

    The number-one way SA businesses get robbed.
    • Break-in watch. Strange logins, risky app permissions and the sneaky auto-forward rules that quietly steal your mail.
    • Exposure check. Which of your addresses and passwords have already leaked online.
    • Scam & link check. Unsure about a mail? We check it before you click.
    Result: email fraud and account takeover caught early, before money moves.
    02 · MACHINE

    Devices & Endpoints

    Where ransomware tries to take hold.
    • Always-on guard. A light agent watches your PCs for ransomware behaviour and hidden processes.
    • Auto-contain. A threat is locked down and isolated automatically, before it spreads.
    • Safe for family & staff. Scam-site and adult-content blocking, safe search on by default.
    Result: one infected laptop never becomes a company-wide disaster.
    03 · NETWORK

    Perimeter & DNS

    Protection for everything on your line.
    • Protective DNS. Every device is stopped from reaching phishing, malware and scam sites before the page loads.
    • Intruder alerts. You're told the moment an unknown device joins your network.
    • Always watching. Routers, cameras and smart gear checked continuously for weak spots.
    Result: the whole home or office is covered, not just one machine.

    See it in 60 seconds

    Protected. And private.

    How Reed Sentinel guards your business without ever looking inside it.

    Under the hood

    We watch for the attack as it happens.

    Behind the scenes, Sentinel is constantly scanning your mail, your machines and your network, matching what it sees against live threat intelligence and acting the instant something's off.

    On your phone

    You hear about it the moment it happens.

    There's no dashboard to remember to check. When something needs you, a plain message lands on your phone. When nothing does, it stays quiet.

    • Says what happened, in one sentence
    • Says whether you need to do anything
    • A daily summary, so quiet never means forgotten
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    Alerts

    Login GuardNew sign-in to your email from a place we haven't seen before.
    Network GuardAn unknown device just joined your Wi-Fi.
    Email GuardBlocked: a link to a known phishing site.
    Alerts
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    Today, all quiet

    Protected
    18scanners knocked on your website. All turned away.
    3scam and phishing sites blocked before they loaded.
    0risky sign-ins to your email.
    Daily report
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    On your network

    Reception PCGuarded
    Owner's laptopGuarded
    Office printerKnown
    Front-door cameraKnown
    Unknown phoneNew
    Devices

    Example screens, wording simplified.

    Why trust it

    We run Sentinel on our own network.

    This isn't a brochure product. The exact same protection we'd put on your business is already guarding ours: email, machines, cameras and all.

    • Real-time alerts to a phone, not a dashboard nobody checks
    • Plain-English reports, no jargon, no scare tactics
    • Local and private: your data stays on your side
    • Set up for you, then it just runs quietly
    Reed Sentinel: we watch the doors, not the rooms

    How it starts

    Simple to begin. Quiet once it's running.

    STEP 01
    A free check

    A short conversation and a quick look at where you stand. No cost, no obligation.

    STEP 02
    We set it up for you

    We put the protection in place on your email, machines and network. You don't need to be technical.

    STEP 03
    It just runs

    Alerts reach your phone when something needs you, with plain-English reports in between.

    And when you want to be sure

    A full penetration test. We break in, so they can't.

    We probe your systems the way a criminal would, then hand you a plain-English report of every way in we found, and proof, in writing, that each one is closed.

    FIND
    Every way in

    We look at your systems from the outside, exactly like an attacker would.

    FIX
    In plain English

    A report anyone can read, ranked by what actually matters most.

    PROVE
    It's closed

    We re-test and show you the door is shut, for good.

    Get started

    Start with a free check.

    The first conversation is free, and there's no obligation after it. We take a quick look, tell you honestly where you stand, and only suggest what you actually need.

    082 800 1008derek@derekreed.coBenoni, Gauteng

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