ITSEC Asia Tbk, a cybersecurity company in Indonesia and Asia Pacific, through its subsidiary ITSEC Services Asia Pte. Ltd., and Société de Gestion et de Concept en Informatique (SGCI), an Ivorian information technology services, audit and integration firm, have signed a MoU to jointly deliver advanced security operations capabilities to public institutions and critical infrastructure operators in Côte d’Ivoire.
The partnership marks ITSEC Asia’s first entry into Africa and furthers its international expansion strategy across Asia Pacific, the Middle East and Africa. The two companies intend to work together on national-scale security operations projects in Côte d’Ivoire.
As public and private sector organisations in Côte d’Ivoire accelerate their digital transformation, their exposure to cyber threats is increasing. In industrial and critical infrastructure environments the growing convergence of information technology, operational technology and industrial control systems is creating broader and more complex attack surfaces. Addressing these risks requires advanced cybersecurity capabilities that offer continuous monitoring, detection and response.
Through this new partnership ITSEC Asia and SGCI will work together to enhance cybersecurity capabilities in Côte d’Ivoire and address the rising cybersecurity challenge. The partnership will combine SGCI’s local presence, engineering capabilities and client relationships with ITSEC Asia’s cybersecurity capabilities and experience operating cybersecurity solutions at scale across Asia Pacific and the Middle East.
Patrick Dannacher, President Director of ITSEC Asia, said: “Organisations in Côte d’Ivoire are being asked to defend increasingly complex environments, and that requires sustained operational capability, not one-off engagements. SGCI has spent more than twenty years building the trust and the engineering depth that this work depends on. Our role is to bring the technology and the operational experience that sits behind it. This collaboration is part of our broader international strategy to work with established partners in each market and make advanced cybersecurity capabilities more accessible to the Ivorian organisations that need them.”
Under the MoU, SGCI will lead local client engagement and delivery, drawing on more than two decades of operations in Côte d’Ivoire and its established capabilities in information systems audit, integration, offensive security and digital forensics. ITSEC Asia will act as SGCI’s cybersecurity technology and capability partner and provide cybersecurity solutions, technical expertise, training and ongoing support for SGCI’s local teams.
