Managed IT, security and compliance for South African business
Supporting your IT from the keyboard to the cloud, through security-first optics.
We audit, secure, modernise and govern your technology, so the business runs smoothly, the regulator is satisfied, and you can prove both.
- Security-first
- Every managed service we run is configured to the standards we audit against.
- Evidence-led
- Findings, fixes and compliance reports your board and auditors can act on.
- South African
- Local engineers, local data residency, POPIA built in.
Security products
Know your risk. Then close it.
Four services that take a business from 'we think we're fine' to documented, tested and defended.
Assess
IT & Security Audit
An independent, evidence-based picture of your IT estate: what you have, how it's configured, and where the risk sits.
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Vulnerability Assessment
Continuous discovery and scoring of weaknesses across your network, cloud and endpoints, with remediation tracked to closure.
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Penetration Testing
Authorised, goal-driven attacks on your systems by experienced testers, so you learn what a real adversary could achieve.
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Managed Security
Perimeter, endpoint, email and monitoring run as a service, on Fortinet, Mimecast and Sendmarc, with a SOC watching.
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Email Authentication & DMARC with Sendmarc
Stop criminals sending email as your company. Sendmarc gets your domain to DMARC enforcement and keeps it there, managed by Optika.
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Compliance & governance
Policies, continuous evidence, audits and virtual CISO: the proof that your controls work, for POPIA, ISO 27001, CIS and NIST.
Learn more →The journey
The road from where you are to modern, secure and compliant
Every client starts somewhere different. The journey is the same four stages, and each one produces something you can show your board, your auditor and your insurer.
- 01
Assess
Audit, vulnerability assessment and penetration testing establish the facts: what you have, what's exposed, what it would cost to fix.
IT & security audit → - 02
Secure
Managed security closes the gaps: hardened perimeter, protected endpoints, secured email and a SOC watching, with the evidence captured as we go.
Managed security → - 03
Modernise
Move to Azure and Microsoft 365 as code, with identity and cost designed in, and legacy systems retired on a plan.
Azure & modernisation → - 04
Govern
Policies, continuous compliance evidence, tested backup and disaster recovery, and CloudLens keep the environment where you left it, and prove it on demand.
Compliance & governance →
Our platform
CloudLens: See your Azure clearly.
CloudLens is Optika's own platform for Azure visibility. It connects to your subscriptions read-only, assesses them continuously, and turns thousands of settings into a short list of what to fix, what it costs and why it matters.
Governance
Subscriptions, resource groups, tags, locks and policy compliance, with drift from your standards flagged as it happens.
Security posture
Exposed resources, missing encryption, over-privileged roles and risky configurations, scored against CIS Azure Foundations.
Cost intelligence
Spend by workload and owner, idle and oversized resources, reservation and savings-plan opportunities.
Compliance evidence
Exportable reports mapped to POPIA, ISO 27001 and CIS, ready for auditors and customers.
Run Azure for other businesses? CloudLens is multi-tenant: every client tenant scored side by side, with client-ready reporting for your practice.
Connectivity & SD-WAN
SD-WAN is the modern connectivity standard. We build both halves of it.
Deep connectivity, network and WAN experience: from fibre backbones and microwave links to multi-site SD-WAN, the founders have designed, built and operated them at carrier and enterprise scale. That's the team choosing your links and writing your SD-WAN policy.
The best possible underlay
Carrier relationships, site-by-site feasibility and honest advice on what each medium can really deliver. Two independent paths per site as the rule, physical diversity where it exists, and circuits ordered, delivered and escalated by us.
How we build the underlay →An optimum overlay
Fortinet SD-WAN configured for how your business actually works: Microsoft 365, voice, cloud and branch-to-branch traffic each steered to the path that serves it best, with security policy applied in the same device.
How we tune the overlay →Underlay media: fibre, licensed microwave, LTE/5G and satellite, chosen per site.
Why Optika
Why clients choose Optika
One accountable team
Audit, remediation, managed operations and compliance from one provider, so nothing falls between vendors.
Fortinet, Microsoft, Wazuh and Mimecast expertise
Deep skills in the platforms SMEs actually run, with a Wazuh SIEM correlating events across all of them and configurations documented and benchmarked.
Built for compliance
POPIA, CIS and NIST are in our standard operating procedures, not an add-on service.
Our own tooling
CloudLens and Optika Insight give you visibility most providers can't, because we built them.
Connectivity in our DNA
Founders with deep carrier, network and WAN experience, offering fibre, microwave and mobile connectivity as a full managed suite rather than a resold line.
Wi-Fi done properly
Survey-designed, enterprise-grade wireless secured with per-user authentication, because the network should know who is on it.
Change without disruption
World-class project management for every migration, cutover and new service: scoped, rehearsed, rolled back if needed, and no unplanned outages.
Also from Optika: managed IT, networking and communications, secure enterprise Wi-Fi, CCTV and physical security, VoIP on Bicom Systems, backup and disaster recovery, integration and automation, project management, and Azure and Microsoft 365 modernisation.
Start with the facts.
A scoped IT and security audit gives you a clear picture in weeks, and a roadmap you can budget for.