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J2 is a cyber security focused managed service group, founded in 2006. Operating in United Kingdom & South Africa. J2 serves over 300 customers on 3 continents.

J2 Software is a dynamic, leading cyber security focused technology business. Our solutions and services ensure that you are able to leverage technology to reduce risk, improve compliance, cut costs and keep control. We allow you to keep your most valuable asset... INFORMATION. Executive Summary

With Global markets in a state of constant flux and companies looking for innovative ways to ensure t

heir survival, more companies are resorting to protecting their market share and optimizing their internal resources at all costs. J2 Software has been at the forefront of helping companies achieve these goals by providing effective and easy to manage data security and policy enforcement solutions. We offer our clients complete peace of mind through the cost effective delivery of world beating policy enforcement and compliance solutions, communication cost allocation, data security, encryption and PC protection tools and services. We create value for our customers by ensuring that you have the ability to effectively implement and monitor your internal corporate ICT Security Policy. We have solutions that cater for everyone; from a home user, to small medium enterprises (SME's) right up to large corporate and governmental organisations. We provide world class solutions that allow you to optimize limited resources and increase productivity by ensuring that all your IT investments are being used efficiently and to maximum benefit. J2 was founded after the owners and company visionaries identified an opportunity in the Information Technology market in South Africa and the rest of Africa for effective internal security and compliance solutions. This requirement has become even more apparent in recent times owing to the fact that organisations are placing a far higher priority on security, accountability and control of their most prized asset, their information. Adding to this is the ever growing pressure being placed on companies and their directors' to maintain the security and control of the sensitive data of their clients, as well as the necessity to conform to various local and international compliance regulations. With the continued rise of identity theft, ICT resource abuse and confidential data leakage the need for our product offerings are not only an advantage, but an absolute necessity. J2 Software has implemented solutions and provided services at renowned, forward thinking organisations with sites running in Africa, UK and Australia.

04/09/2026

Five questions. Answer them honestly.

1. Is MFA on for every single user?
2. Is everyone actually using it, on their registered device?
3. Are admin accounts kept separate from everyday accounts?
4. How often do you review who has admin rights?
5. Does everyone get regular security training?

Most people say yes to the first one with real confidence. Then it gets harder.

Question four is the one that catches almost everybody, because “when somebody leaves” is not a review.

And question five usually turns out to mean “at induction, in 2022”.

These are the easy five out of twenty. If they’re already uncomfortable, the other fifteen are worth three minutes of your time.

Take our test its free and takes 5 mins.

https://j2mssp.com/cyber-risk-score/
J2 MSSP. Here to help.

02/09/2026

Last week we asked four questions about how you would find out if your business had been breached.

1. Who has admin access, and should they all still have it?
2. What of yours is exposed to the internet, and did you mean it to be?
3. Where does your valuable data actually live, including the copies nobody officially made?
4. If something looked wrong at 2am on a Sunday, who sees it?

Our CEO John made a better point in response. Those aren’t questions for the IT team. They’re questions for your next board meeting.

Asked in the IT room, you get a demo and some green ticks. Asked in the board room, they turn into questions about contracts, reputation and whether you could still trade next week.

Most boards ask “are we secure?” That question invites a yes.

The better one is “how would we know?” That one gets you the truth.

Twenty questions, under three minutes, and you’ll have your answer before the meeting rather than after it.

https://j2mssp.com/cyber-risk-score/

J2 MSSP. Here to help

01/09/2026

Here is a sentence from our own website, and it is the most uncomfortable thing on it.

Tools provide the illusion of security. Resilience protects businesses.

We put it there because of a pattern we keep meeting. A business asks whether it is secure, somebody produces a list of what has been bought, and everybody in the room relaxes.

Firewall, yes. Antivirus, yes. Backups, yes. Multi factor authentication, yes.
That list is an inventory. It is not an answer.

Because the question that actually decides what happens to your business is not what you own. It is what you would see.

An alert sitting unread in a console is not protection, it is a record of the moment somebody could have acted. Having security technology and having security capability are not the same thing, and almost every business that gets breached already owned the tool that spotted it.

This is why we talk about resilience rather than security.

Resilience is a harder standard to meet, because it asks whether the business could take a hit and keep trading.

Not whether the wall is tall.

Clients, insurers and regulators are asking the resilience question now. Increasingly it arrives in a tender document, and the businesses that can answer it win work from the ones that cannot.

So here is the practical thing. Stop auditing what you own and start asking what you would see. Take one system, any system, and ask who would notice if somebody logged into it at three in the morning from somewhere unusual.

If the answer is nobody, you have found the gap, and you have found it cheaply.

Our Cyber Resilience Scorecard asks that question nineteen more times. Twenty questions, under three minutes, and an honest score at the end.

j2mssp.com/cyber-risk-score/

Because you cannot protect what you cannot see.

J2 MSSP. Here to help.

28/08/2026

If your business were compromised right now, who would find out first?

You, or your customer?

It matters more than you'd think. IBM's 2026 figures show that when a company's own team spotted the breach, the incident ran 209 days. When somebody outside told them, 281. When the attacker announced it, it was the most expensive outcome in the whole report.

Four questions to try this afternoon.

Who has admin access, and should they all still have it?
What of yours is exposed to the internet?
Where does your important data actually live?

If something looked wrong at 2am on a Sunday, who sees it?

Most businesses manage three out of four. The last one is the one that counts.

Get your cyber resilience score at j2mssp.com.

J2 MSSP. Here to help.

26/08/2026

Prevention is important. It is also going to fail eventually.

Someone clicks something. A password gets stolen. A patch is missed. A supplier is compromised.

When that happens, every question about how strong your wall is stops mattering, and one question takes over.

Will you know they are there?

An alert nobody opens is not protection. Somebody has to see it, understand it and act on it. That is the difference between having security technology and having security capability.

Which do you have? Find out at j2mssp.com.

J2 MSSP. Here to help.

24/08/2026

New numbers worth knowing.
IBM's 2026 report says it now takes 247 days on average to find and contain a breach. That went up this year, after five years of getting better.

Here is the part that matters. When a company's own team spotted it, the whole thing took 209 days. When somebody else told them, it took 281.

The clock is the cost. Under 200 days, breaches averaged $4.32m. Over 200 days, $5.65m.

Who would tell you first? You, or your customer?

Get your cyber resilience score at j2mssp.com.

J2 MSSP. Here to help.

21/08/2026

A cyber attack rarely looks like a cyber attack.

No alarms. No red screens. No dramatic moment where someone announces the network has been hacked.

Just a login that looks fine, a mailbox rule nobody set up, and a business carrying on as normal while somebody learns how it works from the inside.

The average business takes 183 days to notice, according to IBM's 2026 report. Six months of somebody quietly getting to know your company.

If someone was inside your systems today, would you know?

Get your cyber resilience score at j2mssp.com.

J2 MSSP. Here to help.

19/08/2026

Cyber security is now a matter of business survival.

That's the message from the National Cyber Security Centre.
And it's increasingly asking business leaders, not just IT teams, to take responsibility for cyber risk.
That makes sense.

If a cyber attack stops your systems, affects your suppliers or prevents your team serving customers, you don't have an IT problem anymore.

You have a business problem.
So ask one question:
If our critical systems stopped working tomorrow, how would we keep trading?

If nobody can answer confidently, that's where your cyber resilience conversation should begin.

Cyber security protects technology.

Cyber resilience protects businesses.

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J2 MSSP - Here to help.

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17/08/2026

You may have seen the headlines about the first ransomware attack run entirely by an AI.

Worth knowing. The researchers who found it later clarified that a human had been involved after all.

None of this is nothing. AI genuinely is changing how fast attacks happen. But the gap between the headline and the detail is where businesses spend money badly.

Fear makes you buy quickly and think slowly, which is the opposite of what protecting a business needs.

Before you buy anything sold as AI defence, ask one question. What would this have caught last year? If the answer is vague, so is the product.

Preparation beats panic.
about what actually makes a business resilient.

14/08/2026

Most businesses know exactly what is installed on their laptops. Very few know who signed into their email last night.

That gap matters more than people realise.

Your antivirus watches devices, and it is good at it. But an attacker with a stolen password does not need to put anything on your laptop.

They just log in. Read email. Set up a forwarding rule. Learn how your invoices are written.

Nothing runs. Nothing gets blocked. Your protection is working perfectly and looking in the wrong direction.

One question to ask this week. If your account signed in from two different countries an hour apart, would anyone find out?

Because you cannot protect what you cannot see.

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Unit 6 Bushhill Office Park, Jan Frederick Drive, Randpark Ridge
Randburg
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Opening Hours

Monday	08:00 - 17:00
Tuesday	08:00 - 17:00
Wednesday	08:00 - 17:00
Thursday	08:00 - 17:00
Friday	08:00 - 17:00

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https://j2mssp.com/

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