Ghanaian cybersecurity firm Virtual Infosec Africa (VIA) is rolling out an AI-powered managed security service, aiming to give local organisations round-the-clock threat monitoring without building an in-house security team.

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The push responds to a problem facing security teams worldwide: cyberattacks are growing more frequent and sophisticated, skilled analysts are in short supply, and boards want faster incident response and stronger regulatory compliance without ballooning costs. Running a security operations centre in-house around the clock has become too expensive for many organisations once staffing, tooling and integration costs are added up, pushing more companies toward outsourced managed security providers.

VIA’s offering is built around what it calls an Open Extended Detection and Response (XDR) platform, which the company says brings together threat-detection, automated-response, network-monitoring, user-behaviour-analytics, threat-intelligence and identity-security tools that are normally run as separate systems. Rather than requiring clients to replace existing security tools, VIA says the platform is designed to integrate with hundreds of third-party technologies already in use.

Artificial intelligence sits at the centre of the service, according to the company. Instead of sending analysts a stream of isolated alerts, VIA says its platform correlates security events across an organisation’s systems, maps out potential attack paths, ranks which threats are credible, and automates parts of the investigation and response process. The company says this cuts down false alarms and frees analysts to focus on the incidents that carry the greatest risk.

VIA’s push into managed security is backed by a genuine regulatory credential: Ghana’s Cyber Security Authority issued the company a Tier-1 cybersecurity licence in July 2024, one of 51 providers, establishments and professionals accredited that year, which requires it to be able to serve any of the country’s 13 designated critical information infrastructure operators. Founded in 2008, VIA also built the Bank of Ghana’s first cyber threat intelligence centre.

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The company says hosting the service locally helps Ghanaian clients meet data sovereignty and sector-specific regulatory requirements while still getting the level of protection larger, better-resourced organisations use. VIA describes its ambition as making that standard of security operations affordable and accessible to organisations across Ghana and the rest of Africa, positioning the service as a partnership between its technology platform and in-house managed security expertise rather than a simple software sale.