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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.

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100+
Organisations protected

Across pan-African countries

12+
Countries

Where our intelligence travels

1st
Pan-African consortium

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.

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  • Spyware Accountability

    Leading Africa’s first consortium dedicated to exposing and holding accountable the use of spyware against journalists, activists and civil society.

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  • AI 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.

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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.

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  • 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.

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A cohort of Resilience Technologies training participants celebrating at the end of a session.

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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  • Executive Director, a West African human rights organisation

    Before our engagement with Resilience Technologies, our approach to digital security was entirely reactive. The training didn’t just give us technical tools; it shifted our entire organisational culture around data protection. We now operate with confidence.
    • Resilience training

  • Head of Operations, a regional civic coalition

    For years, we struggled to apply generic cybersecurity advice to our specific context. The Resilience Model gave us a clear, actionable roadmap. It is the first digital defence strategy we’ve seen that actually understands the realities of civil society in Africa.
    • The Resilience Model
    • Assessment

  • IT Director, a justice-technology organisation

    The shift from relying on reactive IT support to having proactive, machine-speed defence has been a game-changer for our operations. Knowing that threats are detected and contained in under an hour gives us the peace of mind to focus on our core mission.
    • Zeroth Cloud
    • Incident response

  • Digital Rights Researcher and Fellow

    The Spyware Fellowship is exactly what the continent needs. It equipped our team with the localised forensic skills and legal frameworks required to not just identify surveillance threats, but to actively build resilience against them in our communities.
    • Spyware Fellowship
    • Forensics

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