The authority on sovereign digital defence
Digital Resilience Built for Africa’s Civil Society.
We equip African journalists, activists and civil society organisations with sovereign cloud defence, spyware accountability and AI governance, so high-risk missions stay online, operational and protected.
- 100+
- Organisations protected
- 12+
- Countries
- 1st
- Pan-African consortium
Across pan-African countries
Where our intelligence travels
Making spyware use a liability
Our pillars of digital defence
Three ways we turn digital vulnerability into operational freedom for high-impact organisations across Africa.
Digital Resilience
Continuous, invisible protection across your endpoints, networks and cloud. Threats are caught and contained before they are ever noticed.
Learn more about Digital ResilienceSpyware and Surveillance
Leading Africa’s first consortium dedicated to exposing and holding accountable the use of spyware against journalists, activists and civil society.
Learn more about Spyware and SurveillanceAI Safety & Governance
Generative AI and algorithmic bias are rewriting the rules of civic space. We build the frameworks that let African civil society write the rules rather than be ruled by them.
Explore our approach about AI Safety & Governance
Our flagship resilience model
What if you could measure your organisation’s digital resilience the same way you measure your impact?
The Resilience Model is our proprietary assessment framework, and the only one built specifically for African civil society. It evaluates 18 risk areas across 130 questions, then places an organisation in one of three zones.
Evidence, not intuition. Rigour, not guesswork.
- 18
- Risk areas
- 130
- Questions
- 3
- Zones
Red zone
Exposed. Active risk, no controls in place.
Safety zone
Baseline controls holding. Gaps remain.
Resilience zone
Able to absorb an attack and keep operating.
Partnered with
- West Africa Civil Society Institute (WACSI)
- The Hague Institute for Innovation of Law (HiiL)
- Nigeria Media Innovation Program (NAMIP) Media Development Investment Fund
- DefendDefenders
- Digital Society of Africa (DSA)
- Open Technology Fund Funder
- TechSoup
Introducing Zeroth Cloud
Our AI-powered platform detects threats before they happen.
Zeroth Cloud harnesses artificial intelligence and open-source technology in a cloud architecture that automates threat detection and response, stopping threats before they become attacks. Built on a zero-trust architecture, it uses machine learning to proactively monitor anomalies, delivering continuous protection across your entire digital footprint.
Learn more about Zeroth Cloud (opens in a new tab)Threats blocked
1,284
last 24 h
Mean response
41
minutes
Endpoints covered
3,912
across 38 sites
Detections · last 24 h
Peak 14:00
Proactive threat management
Continuous, round-the-clock infrastructure monitoring that neutralises old, new, and emerging vulnerabilities before they escalate.
Fast and automated response
Rapid mitigation. Detection, isolation, and comprehensive reporting executed in under an hour to keep missions online.
Simplified expertise
Enterprise-grade intelligence made accessible, empowering local teams to handle intermediate-level investigations without needing a dedicated security operations centre.
Shared threat intelligence
Contextualised intelligence synthesised from frontline attacks, continuously distributed to strengthen the collective defence of the African digital ecosystem.
Our impact
Activists can now do their work without fear of being watched.
We built Africa’s first homegrown Spyware Fellowship and led the continent’s first spyware accountability consortium.
Proof of Impact
Why Civil Society Organisations choose us.
Frontline defenders describe what changed in their infrastructure, team and mission after securing their operations with Resilience Technologies
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Active deployments
Securing the continent’s most critical missions.
From hardening the infrastructure of international justice organisations to equipping regional civil society hubs, our defence frameworks are actively deployed where they are needed most.
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HiiL Justice Innovation Accelerator
In partnership with the Hague Institute for Innovation of Law (HiiL), we embedded advanced threat identification and device hardening directly into the operations of Africa’s most targeted legal-tech innovators.
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WACSI Regional Resilience Hubs
Across Nigeria, Ghana, and Senegal, we deployed structured digital security infrastructure and rapid incident response protocols to 43 frontline organisations, and counting.
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TechSoup EMEA AI Initiative
Directing a 10-country regional initiative alongside TechSoup EMEA, we equip civil society organisations with generative AI frameworks securely tailored to the African threat landscape.
The Briefing Room
Intelligence, Research, and Frontline updates.
Job Opening: Senior Communications Manager
At Resilience Technologies, we provide research-driven digital security solutions and strategic support to civil society organizations, human rights defenders and independent media.
Read on rtafrica.orgAgentic AI and Surveillance: How Autonomous Systems Are Changing Digital Risk for Civil Society
Predator spyware was used to target a journalist and press freedom advocate, and autonomous systems are reshaping what surveillance can reach.
Read on rtafrica.orgCall for Applications: Zeroth Cloud Security Analyst Programme, 2026 Cohort
Zeroth Cloud is an automated threat detection, response, and intelligence-sharing platform built for organisations working at risk.
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