Events
October 20261 min read
FABS at the IDC CIO Summit Mauritius
Our CEO, Karien Bornheim, joined IDC's Jon Tullett for a fireside chat on scaling AI apps and agents from pilot to production within Mauritian AI and data protection regulations.
Secure. Scale. Comply.
Across Africa.
We design, audit, and secure the IT infrastructure of banks, telecoms, and critical industries across Africa, and keep it compliant with the regulators who oversee them.
20+
Years across Africa
54
Countries covered
300+
Engagements delivered
Trusted Partners
Trusted by regulated institutions across our African markets. References available under NDA.
Enterprise Capabilities
Each engagement is tailored to the client's operational footprint and risk profile, delivering resilience where it matters most.
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Expertise forged in complexity.
We audit, secure, and modernise the infrastructure of banks, telecoms, and critical industries across multiple African markets: penetration testing and adversary simulation, cloud and infrastructure audits, and compliance mapping against frameworks including ISO 27001, SWIFT CSCF, and central-bank ICT guidelines.
Founded in 2004, FABS listens to its customers' challenges and delivers best-of-breed solutions that protect their existing investment, through training, workshops, assessments, professional services, support, re-implementation, customisation, or new software, always with the understanding that security is key. Our consultants bring deep IT, engineering, and African market experience, and relationships with most major IT vendors across solutions as varied as business continuity, security, RFID, call centres, warehousing, and IoT.
Industries We Serve
Regulated, high-stakes sectors where infrastructure failure or a breach carries real operational and compliance risk.
Local Expertise. Global Standards. Pan-African Impact.
Engagement Spotlight
Financial Services & Payments
PEX Ltd, regional payment services provider, Mauritius
01
Challenge
PEX processes payments across some of the world's fastest-growing markets, issuing, acquiring, and digital payments. Rapid growth brought PCI-DSS and financial-regulator compliance obligations that its manual security processes couldn't keep pace with: inconsistent privileged-access management across a hybrid Windows, Linux, and AIX environment, no MFA on network devices, and audits that were slow and hard to evidence.
02
Solution
FABS implemented Centrify's Zero Trust Privilege platform: privileged access requests, multi-factor authentication, Active Directory bridging, secure remote access, and session recording and auditing, replacing ad hoc local admin accounts with role-based access across the full hybrid estate.
03
Outcome
Password and privileged-account management is now automated across Windows, Linux, and AIX. PEX runs daily access reports for audit and compliance, access is granted by role rather than individual ID (and revoked automatically when a role changes), and when COVID-19 lockdowns hit, secure remote access was already in place; only minor configuration was needed to move the workforce home.
"The support, follow-up, and guidance we received during implementation was priceless, thanks to a more than knowledgeable FABS support engineer and a very responsive Centrify support service. We would not be fair not to mention the continuous and unconditional support of our supplier and representative FABS, without which this success story could not have been a tale today."
Jerome Dorasamy
Team Lead – Technology, PEX Ltd
Measuring Security Resilience
We track rigorous metrics to ensure our interventions translate into real-world change. From phishing click-rate reduction to successful compliance audits, our data tells a story of fortified African organizations.
500+
Organizations Secured
1M+
Safe Simulations
85%
Risk Reduction
18
Countries Protected
FABS News & Intelligence
Critical updates on the evolution of African enterprise infrastructure, regulatory shifts, and cybersecurity horizons.
Compliance
May 5, 20246 min read
The Evolution of SWIFT CSCF v2024
Understanding the key changes in the SWIFT Customer Security Controls Framework and what it means for African financial institutions.
Intelligence
April 28, 20248 min read
Adversary Simulation: Beyond the Checklist
Why traditional penetration testing might be leaving your organization vulnerable to modern attack vectors.
Infrastructure
April 15, 20245 min read
Edge Computing Resilience in Volatile Environments
Strategies for maintaining 99.999% availability in regions with infrastructure challenges.
Intelligence
April 02, 20247 min read
Mauritius: A Strategic Tech Hub for Africa
Exploring why FABS headquartering in Mauritius provides a unique competitive advantage for regional delivery.
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Commercial Inquiries
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Regional Hubs
Mauritius • South Africa • Rwanda