Sixteen years of keeping businesses running, securely.
F1 IT Solutions is a managed security services provider (MSSP) founded in 2010 and based in Sonstraal Heights, Durbanville, Cape Town. We run eleven integrated service lines under one SLA for businesses in South Africa, the United Kingdom, Europe and North America: 24/7 managed detection and response, AI solutions and automation, backup and disaster recovery, managed IT, cloud and Microsoft 365, networks, servers, telephony, procurement, digital presence and third-party risk management.
16 years is long enough to have watched the threat move: from the odd infected laptop, to ransomware that takes a company off the air for a fortnight, to attackers arriving through a trusted supplier or a convincing AI-generated voice. The work has changed with it, which is why security now sits at the centre of what we do rather than alongside it.
Security-first, not security-adjacent.
A traditional managed IT provider keeps your systems running and treats security as a product it resells. An MSSP puts security at the centre: continuous detection and response, vulnerability management and incident response are the spine of the business, and the day-to-day IT work happens inside that protective layer.
F1 is the second kind, and it shows up in small decisions every day — how an account is offboarded, whether a backup has actually been restored from, what a new AI tool is allowed to read. We are also deliberately multi-vendor: the MDR, EDR and XDR platform behind an engagement is matched to the environment and the budget in front of us, not to whichever licence agreement happens to suit us that year.
The same discipline governs how we roll AI into a business. Assistants, automations and custom applications are only worth having if the access control, data governance and monitoring around them hold up, which is the part an MSSP is built to do.
Eleven service lines, one partner.
One SLA, one team and no finger-pointing between vendors when something breaks at the seam between two of them.
Why clients abroad keep a Cape Town team.
Near-shore, not off-shore
Global-standard work from senior, English-speaking engineers, at South African economics.
Full working-day overlap
Real-time collaboration across UK & EU business hours. No 12-hour lag.
Security-first by default
24/7 monitoring, AI-aware EDR and incident response in every engagement.
Compliance fluency
POPIA, UK & EU GDPR, NIS2 and ISO 27001, spoken natively.
One integrated partner
Eleven service lines under one SLA. No finger-pointing between vendors.
16-year track record
Businesses have trusted F1 to keep them running since 2010.
Based in Durbanville. Working across four regions.
We are based in Sonstraal Heights, Durbanville, Cape Town and work as a remote-first team. Our engineers come to you on site across the greater Cape Town metro, and everything else is delivered remotely, inside UK and European business hours rather than at the edges of them.
South Africa
Cape Town HQ, Johannesburg and Pretoria
United Kingdom
London and across the UK
Europe
Hamburg, Frankfurt and the EU
North America
Major cities across the United States and Canada
The technology we build on, and the rules we work to.
These are the vendors whose technology we deploy and support, and the frameworks our clients are held to and we work within.
Technology partners
- Sophos
- Microsoft
- ESET
- Dell EMC
- HP
- Lenovo
- Apple
- Ubiquiti
- Synology
- Acronis
- Druva
- Yealink
- N-able
- SuperOps
- Redstor
- VIPRE
Frameworks & compliance
- POPIA
- UK & EU GDPR
- NIS2
- ISO 27001
- Cyber Essentials
- SOC 2
Let's make your IT an advantage.
Book a free, no-obligation assessment. We'll review your systems and security, and show you exactly where F1 can help.