# CloudGrid Africa

> Technology risk advisory for Kenyan and East African businesses, based in Westlands, Nairobi. CloudGrid Africa advises on technology risk and also delivers the work: cybersecurity, managed cloud and hosting at Raxio Data Centre (Tier III), business continuity, data protection compliance and custom business systems. Founded and led by Denis Murila.

Contact: denis@cloudgridafrica.com, +254 721 656 835, https://www.cloudgridafrica.com/contact/

## Solutions
- [Cybersecurity and risk advisory](https://www.cloudgridafrica.com/solutions/cybersecurity/): Find the route an attacker would take into your business and close it before someone uses it.
- [Cloud and infrastructure](https://www.cloudgridafrica.com/solutions/cloud-infrastructure/): Move off ageing servers without carrying the old problems, or the old costs, into the new environment.
- [Business continuity and disaster recovery](https://www.cloudgridafrica.com/solutions/business-continuity/): Decide how long the business can afford to be down, then prove you can recover within that time.
- [Data protection compliance](https://www.cloudgridafrica.com/solutions/data-protection/): Meet the Data Protection Act without stopping the business, and be able to prove it when a customer complains or the regulator asks.
- [Custom business systems](https://www.cloudgridafrica.com/solutions/custom-systems/): Replace the spreadsheets and message groups the business has outgrown with one system built around how you work, secured from the first day.
- [Technology strategy and advisory](https://www.cloudgridafrica.com/solutions/technology-advisory/): Senior technology judgment for businesses that are not ready to hire a full-time CIO.

## Free assessments
Each runs in the browser and shows a score out of 100 without asking for an email address.
- [SME Technology Risk Scorecard](https://www.cloudgridafrica.com/assessments/technology-risk-scorecard/): 18 questions, about 5 minutes. Start here if you have not measured technology risk before, or if you need a one-page view for a board or investor conversation.
- [Cybersecurity Health Check](https://www.cloudgridafrica.com/assessments/cybersecurity-health-check/): 15 questions, about 5 minutes. Use this after a scare, before a client security review, or when cyber insurance or a bank asks what controls you have.
- [SME Technology Maturity Assessment](https://www.cloudgridafrica.com/assessments/technology-maturity/): 18 questions, about 6 minutes. Use this before setting next year's budget, before hiring an IT manager, or when growth has made existing systems feel slow.
- [Business Continuity Checklist](https://www.cloudgridafrica.com/assessments/business-continuity/): 15 questions, about 5 minutes. Use this before an audit, when a client asks for your continuity plan, or after an outage that lasted longer than it should have.
- [Cloud Readiness Assessment](https://www.cloudgridafrica.com/assessments/cloud-readiness/): 15 questions, about 5 minutes. Use this before signing a migration contract, renewing server hardware, or deciding between public cloud and hosting in Kenya.

## Compliance Decoder
Articles on Kenyan data protection law, each cited to ODPC determinations and court decisions.
- [Your customer paid by M-Pesa. That's not a marketing list.](https://www.cloudgridafrica.com/insights/why-mpesa-payment-isnt-marketing-consent/): Whitepath and Regus were fined KES 5 million each for the same root mistake: reusing a number collected for one purpose to market for another.
- [Can you prove your customer said yes?](https://www.cloudgridafrica.com/insights/consent-log-mpesa-marketing/): The burden of proving consent sits with the business, not the customer. What a consent log needs to hold, with citations to ODPC and court decisions.

## Company
- [About](https://www.cloudgridafrica.com/about/)
- [Editorial policy](https://www.cloudgridafrica.com/editorial-policy/)
- [Privacy policy](https://www.cloudgridafrica.com/privacy/)
- [Terms of service](https://www.cloudgridafrica.com/terms/)