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A sealed envelope with an orange wax seal stands in a letter rack on the bench's orange route, with a firewall and a laptop further along the pale lab bench.

Africa’s trusted cybersecurity value-added distributor.

Obscure Technologies brings leading security vendors to Africa’s resellers and channel partners, and has done since 2016.

Match your customer’s problems

  1. [ 01 email ]

    It starts with an email.

    A routine-looking message arrives carrying something that is not routine. The email layer reads it before anyone can click.

    Obscure lists Proofpoint and Sendmarc here, with Palo Alto Networks, under Email and Web Protection.

    A white mail scanner stands over a belt. The envelope sealed with orange wax has been pushed off the belt into a tray, and a plain envelope is carrying on.

  2. [ 02 identity ]

    Say it gets through, and someone types a password.

    The attacker now holds a login. A password on its own should not open the door, and the right person should still walk straight through.

    Obscure lists Okta and BeyondTrust under Access Control Management and Account Management.

    A sign-in tablet shows a typed password and the word signed in, a padlock beside it has a green light, and a phone beside that says approved.

  3. [ 03 network ]

    Say the attacker is inside. The network can still say no.

    Traffic is inspected on its way across, and every connected device is seen, so something unexpected is stopped from spreading.

    Palo Alto Networks, Forescout, Netscout, Arista and Radware, from Obscure’s solutions and vendor pages.

    A firewall sits on top of a network switch with coloured cables plugged into both.

  4. [ 04 devices ]

    Say a file reaches a laptop.

    Endpoint protection exists to stop the malicious file before it runs, and to let the ordinary one open.

    Cybereason, Trend Micro and Palo Alto Networks, under Malware Defences.

    A laptop shows a downloads window in which one file is marked as held in quarantine.

  5. [ 05 data ]

    And if all of that fails, the data can still come back.

    Immutable copies sit out of the attacker’s reach, so recovery starts from the last clean one.

    Rubrik for Data Recovery, with OneTrust for privacy and supplier risk.

    A vault stands open on a stack of backup sheets, and a printed sheet marked with the orange seal lies on a tray below it.

  6. [ 06 see and test ]

    Then test it before anyone else does.

    Exposure scanning and automated attack testing run the attack against the customer’s own defences, and the logs show what happened.

    Tenable, Pentera and Splunk, under Continuous Vulnerability Management, Penetration Testing and Audit Log Management.

    A screen on a stand lists the five layers, each with a green tick and the word stopped, under a gantry whose scan head has laid a thin sheet of light across the bench.

Which layers does your customer need?

Tick the problems your customer faces. Teal is a layer you have covered, grey is a layer with no cover chosen, and orange is the attack looking for a way through.

The matcher needs JavaScript. Obscure’s solutions page lists every business challenge and its vendors, or call +27 12 941 2032.

Authorised partner for Palo Alto, Proofpoint, Okta and more.

Obscure’s own line. The sixteen vendors it shows today, in one line card. See the whole card

What a partner gets.

In Obscure’s words, from its channel announcement and its services list. All the services

A dedicated account manager.

Every channel partner is assigned one, Obscure says, and specialist business unit managers keep up with each technology.

Training and enablement.

Technical training, marketing support and sales enablement, with accredited training programmes for a partner’s team.

Pre-sales help and a quote process.

Unified threat detection, security lifecycle reviews and business process automation before the sale, and a configure, price, quote process for it.

Credit, leasing and collections.

Credit, leasing, foreign exchange, VAT and cash collection solutions to support a partner’s business needs.

5.0on Google, from 3 reviews
"The training was top class and highly interactive”Siva Govender, Google review, June 2026
"Lekke people working there!”Gustav Joubert, Google review, March 2025

Plus one more five-star rating from Christopher White, September 2026. All three on the about page

Since 2016, in Obscure’s own announcements.

Each line links to the announcement it comes from.

  1. Obscure Technologies is formed by a group of specialist security professionals.
    ITWeb press office
  2. Tenable distributor across 26 African countries.
    Obscure blog
  3. Pentera and Rubrik join the portfolio, adding automated security validation and data recovery.
    Obscure blog
  4. Francois van Hirtum, a founding member, becomes Managing Director.
    ITWeb
  5. A partnership with SharkStriker launches Vantage, a vendor-agnostic SOC service.
    ITWeb

The Just In, recorded in Obscure’s own studio.

A podcast for South Africa’s cybersecurity resellers and professionals, launched in March 2021.

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