Cybersecurity as a Service, from an African eye
See every vulnerability. Validate every defence. Respond faster.
Attackers only need one weakness. Find it before they do. Misconfigured systems, unpatched software and exposed credentials can leave your business vulnerable — Prima Secure helps identify and reduce these risks through three complementary cybersecurity services.
Three complementary services
Each service answers a different question — together, they cover your risk every day of the year.
01
Certified ethical hackers simulate real-world attacks across your networks, applications, cloud and people.
02
Continuous scanning that identifies, assesses and prioritises vulnerabilities across your whole estate.
03
Automated, safe attack emulation that proves exactly which vulnerabilities are exploitable, continuously.
How it all connects
Results from all three services feed directly into Specula, our MDR platform, for ongoing monitoring and faster response.
Service 01
Our certified ethical hackers simulate real-world attacks across your networks, applications, cloud environments and people to uncover exploitable vulnerabilities.
Best for: compliance, due diligence, annual security assurance and identifying vulnerabilities that automated scanning may miss.
Service 02
Tenable Vulnerability Management continuously scans your IT environment to identify, assess and prioritise vulnerabilities across on-premises, cloud, containers, OT and Active Directory.
Best for: businesses needing continuous vulnerability assessment, faster remediation and clear visibility into their security risks.
Service 03
Test like an attacker every day, not once a year. Pentera safely emulates real attack techniques against your live environment, continuously, to prove exactly which vulnerabilities are exploitable — not just which ones exist on paper. No waiting for the next scheduled test, no disruption to the business, just continuous, evidence-based proof.
Best for: organisations that want continuous, automated penetration testing between (or instead of) manual test cycles, and want to know whether their existing stack — firewalls, EDR, SIEM — genuinely holds up under attack.
Working together
| Penetration Testing | Tenable VM | Pentera | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Approach | Manual, expert-led | Automated, continuous scanning | Automated, continuous attack emulation |
| Frequency | Point-in-time (annual or ad hoc) | Continuous | Continuous or on demand |
| Finds | Business-logic flaws, chained exploits, human-factor risk | Every known vulnerability across the estate | Which vulnerabilities are truly exploitable, end-to-end |
| Depth | Deepest — human creativity and context | Broadest — full-estate coverage | Validated — proves real attack paths |
| Best for | Compliance, annual assurance, red teaming | Ongoing risk visibility and prioritisation | Continuous control validation between pentests |
Most of our clients run all three together: Tenable for daily visibility, Pentera for continuous proof of what's exploitable, and conventional penetration testing for deep, human-led assurance where it counts most. The result: security coverage every day of the year, not just the week before an audit.
Frequently asked questions
Penetration testing is manual and expert-led. It simulates a real attack at a single point in time and uncovers business-logic flaws a scanner would miss. Tenable Vulnerability Management is automated and continuous — it scans your whole estate around the clock and prioritises risk by what's exploitable. Most organisations run both: Tenable for daily visibility, penetration testing for deep, periodic assurance.
Pentera automatically and safely emulates real attacker techniques against your live environment. It proves which vulnerabilities are genuinely exploitable and whether your existing security controls stop an attack — continuously, not just when a scheduled pentest comes around.
Not entirely — the two work best together. Pentera gives you continuous, automated validation between manual test cycles. Conventional penetration testing adds human creativity, business context, and social engineering testing that automation can't fully replicate.
As a baseline: Tenable Vulnerability Management runs continuously, Pentera validation runs on a regular or continuous cadence, and a full manual penetration test runs at least once a year or after any major infrastructure change. Regulated industries often need more frequent testing.
While POPIA and GDPR don't mandate penetration testing by name, both require organisations to implement appropriate technical safeguards, and regular testing is widely regarded as evidence of that. ISO 27001 and PCI DSS are more explicit, expecting regular vulnerability assessments and penetration tests as part of an active risk-management programme.
Yes. Prima Secure delivers penetration testing, Tenable Vulnerability Management, and Pentera-powered attack validation across South Africa and our broader African markets, in both English and French.
Why Prima Secure
African-based team with deep knowledge of the regional threat landscape and regulatory environment.
A fully managed service — we don't just hand you a report or a dashboard, we help you act on it.
Findings feed directly into our Specula MDR platform for ongoing monitoring and faster response.
Available across South Africa and our broader African markets, in English and French.