Cyber Awareness and Training

Benefit Technologies offers comprehensive cybersecurity awareness training in South Africa, designed to educate clients on key cyber threats, attack vectors, and secure behavior. Our training services include interactive cybersecurity workshops, tailored awareness programs, and hands-on security assessments to identify and remediate vulnerabilities in client environments. We also provide skills transfer and consulting support, helping organizations strengthen their internal security posture through expert-led development and real-world scenarios.

• Workshops and Training

Web Application and API Security Assessments

Benefit Technologies provides professional web application and API security assessments to help organizations identify and mitigate vulnerabilities that could be exploited by attackers. These assessments target potential threats such as unauthorized database access, compromised user accounts, and other critical attack vectors that can jeopardize your network.

Our team delivers tailored vulnerability remediation strategies, ensuring each finding is addressed in a way that aligns with the client’s specific environment and security requirements. This service is a core part of our broader cybersecurity assessment and penetration testing offerings in South Africa.

Social Engineering Security Assessments

Attackers often leverage various social engineering attack techniques to trick employees into revealing sensitive information or downloading malicious software (payloads). These tactics are commonly used to compromise user devices or gain unauthorized access to a company's network.

Benefit Technologies offers comprehensive social engineering assessments and cybersecurity awareness training tailored to your organization. We offer detailed assessments for:

• Vishing Assessments
• Phishing Assessments
• Physical Security Assessments

Internal and External Network Security Assessments

There are generally two perspectives namely:

External Network Security Assessments: Benefit Technologies conducts external network security assessments designed to identify vulnerabilities in publicly accessible systems. These assessments focus on externally exposed hosts, typically using IP addresses provided by the client that are believed to be part of their environment. Our experts evaluate these hosts for potential exploitation paths that could allow attackers to gain an initial foothold into the organization's infrastructure. Additionally, we perform network footprinting to discover unknown or misattributed assets, ensuring comprehensive visibility across the client’s external attack surface.

Internal Network Security Assessments: simulate a scenario from the perspective of an attacker having already breached the organisation's perimeter. Benefit Technologies performs a deep analysis of internal systems and private networks to uncover risks such as outdated software, unpatched vulnerabilities, and misconfigured services that could be leveraged for lateral movement. These assessments help organisations understand what an adversary could achieve once inside and provide actionable insights to strengthen internal defenses and reduce the likelihood of privilege escalation or data compromise.

Cloud Security Reviews for AWS and Azure

Benefit Technologies offers detailed cloud security assessments for both AWS and Azure environments. Our reviews focus on cloud misconfigurations, compliance gaps, excessive access privileges, and security best practices. Explore each platform in more detail:

• AWS Cloud Review
• Azure Cloud Review

Host and Database Configuration Reviews

Benefit Technologies performs detailed host and database configuration reviews to assess the security posture of servers, operating systems, and data storage components. These reviews focus on identifying misconfigurations, outdated services, insecure protocols, and other common risks that can expose systems to cyber threats.

Our objective is to help clients harden their infrastructure in alignment with industry best practices and regulatory compliance frameworks. We deliver practical, prioritised remediation guidance to ensure configurations follow security benchmarks such as CIS, NIST, and OWASP standards.

Automated Vulnerability Scanning Services

Benefit Technologies offers comprehensive automated vulnerability scanning services to proactively detect security weaknesses across client environments. Using industry-leading vulnerability scanners, we identify known issues such as missing patches, insecure configurations, outdated software, and exposed services that could be exploited by attackers.

While automated scanning provides a valuable first layer of defense, we emphasise that it should be complemented with manual penetration testing and in-depth security assessments to eliminate false positives and validate true risks. Our team ensures that all findings are reviewed in context, enabling clients to prioritise remediation based on actual threat exposure.

Password Audits and Cyber Security Consulting Services

Benefit Technologies provides in-depth password audit services to evaluate the effectiveness of an organisation's current password policies and identify potential exposures. Weak or predictable passwords are a leading cause of brute force attacks and unauthorised access. We assess password strength, complexity requirements, expiration policies, and multi-factor authentication enforcement.

As part of our audit, we offer a secure service where clients can submit password hashes for analysis. Our team will attempt to crack these hashes using ethical methods to uncover vulnerable user credentials and highlight common patterns or reused passwords. These findings help organisations implement stronger controls and reduce their attack surface.

In addition to password audits, Benefit Technologies offers a range of cybersecurity consulting services, including policy development, staff awareness training, and technical advisory to strengthen your organisation’s overall security posture.