African Excellence Awards 2021

MEAMARKETS / African Excellence Awards 2021 19 , Jun21252 VIC IT Consulting, since its founding, has been striving to be the technological company that champions both itself and its field. With a relatively recent pivot to cybersecurity and the innovations therein, it has been focusing on the promotion of the education and the upskilling of professionals and new blood in its industry, doing its part to improve the world around it. Most Innovative IT Infrastructure Consultancy 2021 Dedicated to the implementation of technologies and processes that will help clients exceed their own expectations, VIC IT Consulting helps build, create, and maintain solutions to support growing needs for its clients. Having been founded 11 years ago, with a traditional focus on infrastructure, VIC IT Consulting came from a humble start. Initially, it had just the 1 technician – now a team of 40 engineers – and has grown in its running and management of its SOC for an array of customers, especially after its pivot over the past 5 years towards cyber security that allowed it to cultivate a vast roster of myriad different clients in the Middle East, Africa, and most recently, Europe. Fundamentally, its priority is information. It gathers as much information as it can in order to perform accurate timelines and long-lasting world-class solutions, from ticketing solutions to warehouse solutions, and security monitoring to cyber security. During the provision of these services for its clientele, it allows the education of its customers, education of its staff, and education of the next generation of IT professionals, all feeding into its overall mission of being an educational business. It believes that for the world to progress, upskilling must be prioritised by all elements of the corporate sphere; its staff are given incentive to gather as much knowledge and engage with as much of the offered training as possible, its customers are given demonstrations in pre-built environments, and it constantly hosts events over OEMs for clients. The latter webinars have a consistent focus on the latest innovations that its industry has come up with, presenting them to customers and stakeholders in order to allow professionals in cybersecurity to interact with each other regarding change in the sector. Foremost, this will ensure that more are kept in the loop, something that proves beneficial to the cybersecurity ecosystem as a whole. In tandem with all this, it focuses on constantly innovating and bettering itself so that its clients can always expect services that are at the forefront of its industry, making itself a front-runner for up-and-coming and bold new work – this became especially prevalent during the pandemic. The increased digitization spurred on by the outbreak has allowed IT firms powered by ingenuity to truly take the lead, enabling increased interaction across continents and opening doors previously closed, as well previously challenging markets being more receptive towards new or niche skills like encryption or tokenization. Moreover, with such a diverse, dynamic, collaborative team behind it, VIC IT Consulting takes change in its stride. This allowed it smooth and sophisticated pivoting during Covid-19 that allowed it to mould its technical staff by way of email courses and training, fostering their strength of character and strength of mind. As it moves forward into the rest of 2021 and beyond, VIC IT Consulting is excited to be able to keep pushing change in its industry towards greater heights. This, it believes, will ensure that it not only takes the businesses involved into the future, but the rest of the world in general, with the next 12 months of its business focusing heavily on international markets and social media sharing. VIC IT Consulting therefore encourages clients new and old to keep an eye on its upcoming developments, looking forward to helping shape the ever-shifting paradigm of contemporary technological solutions. Company: VIC IT Consulting Contact: Vidashni Pillay Website: Vicit .co.za