Why OpenCyOps

Four reasons. Each defensible.

Anyone can claim one. We built the business around all four. Here is what that means, in architecture and in writing.

Open-Stack Architecture

Wazuh · DFIR-IRIS · MISP · IntelOwl · VirusTotal. Enterprise capability without enterprise licence economics. Full cost transparency. Zero lock-in.

Typical cost differential
40–60% below incumbent commercial-licensed stacks

African Data Residency

Johannesburg and Cape Town PoPs today. Nairobi and Lagos on the 2027 roadmap. POPIA §72 aligned by architecture — not by legal footnote.

Compliance posture
POPIA §72 · Cross-border transfer controls built in

Compliance-as-Outcome

Every package ships with pre-mapped controls to POPIA, PCI DSS, ISO 27001 and King IV. Audit-ready evidence bundles — not raw logs for your audit team to reconstruct.

Frameworks covered
POPIA · PCI DSS · ISO 27001 · King IV · Prudential Authority

SLA Commitments

P1 acknowledgement ≤ 15 minutes. Published, signed, and measured quarterly. Incumbents won't match this because they structurally cannot.

Published SLAs
P1 15 min · Quarterly performance report from Q2 operations
The Technology Stack

Open-source. By design.

Every component below is production-grade open-source. That is not a compromise — it is an economic weapon and a transparency commitment.

LayerTechnologyFunction
SIEMWazuhLog aggregation, detection, compliance monitoring
Case ManagementDFIR-IRISIncident triage, case collaboration, investigator workflow
Threat IntelMISPIndicator sharing, threat-intel correlation
EnrichmentIntelOwlAutomated IOC analysis and enrichment
ReputationVirusTotalFile and URL reputation checks
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