Tap the hat to cast the spell
Strega Defence · from Benevento, the city of witches
For professional firms and micro-businesses with no IT department. A Box in the office, an app on your phone, a flat fee. No logs to read, no licences to renew.
"Ointment, ointment, over water and over wind": we say it over fibre and over Wi-Fi.
A spell in six steps
The network is almost always the internet provider's router, set up once and never looked at again. Professional solutions exist, but they are designed for organisations with an in-house technician: complex menus, technical logs, cryptic alarms. The result is that a problem is discovered only once the damage is done: encrypted files, email down, a working day lost.
Meanwhile, larger clients are starting to ask for guarantees: companies subject to NIS2 must check the security of their suppliers, small ones included. And the GDPR requires adequate measures and the ability to detect a breach.
serious incidents recorded in Italy in 2025, 42% more than the year before: 9.6% of the global total.
Source: Clusit Report 2026Italian SMBs suffered at least one attack in the last three years; a third lack adequate in-house skills.
Source: Cybersecurity & Data Protection Observatory, Politecnico di Milano — Cyber Index PMI 2025of SMBs manage their vulnerabilities well. 29% already rely on an external partner.
Source: Cyber Index PMI 2025registered NIS2 entities must manage the risk of their suppliers, small ones included, through clauses and questionnaires.
Source: Legislative Decree 138/2024 (NIS2) — ICT Security MagazineStrega Defence protects an office network and alerts the owner only when something that matters happens, explaining it in plain words on phone and computer.
No logs to read, no menus to learn, no cryptic alarms, no technical decisions to make. Strega Defence acts on its own and every message says three things: what happened, how serious it is, what it has already done.
Sentinel watches the network continuously, connects different signals (connections, domain names, login attempts, line status) and recognises the situations worth reporting. In the first weeks it learns the office's habits and fine-tunes its alerts on its own.
A one-off activation and a monthly fee that is the same for 3 or 30 people, with Box, updates, alerts, log and support included. No yearly renewals that switch off protection if you forget.
Strega Defence now 100 failed VPN login attempts from abroad in 10 minutes. We have blocked access from that country: you do not need to do anything.
Strega Defence 2 min ago Suspicious connection blocked from the Reception PC. No data left the office. As a precaution the PC is isolated from the network until the technician checks it: we have already told them.
Strega Defence 1 h ago The internet line has been unstable for 40 minutes. The problem is with your line provider, not your computers.
Strega Defence yesterday 3 offices out of 30 with an open alert. Nothing critical.
Benevento tradition says that to keep the janare (the local witches) away, a broom behind the door was enough, or a little pile of salt on the threshold: before coming in, the witch had to count every single bristle. And dawn would find her still there, counting.
Strega Defence is our broom behind the door: it examines every connection, one by one, and whoever is not allowed stays outside.
In Benevento we know witches well. That is why we know how to keep them out.
Professional firms and micro-businesses of 3 to 50 people: they handle confidential data, receive security requests from clients and almost never have an in-house technician.
They hold clients' personal and confidential data, have professional and GDPR obligations, and larger clients are starting to ask for written security guarantees.
Learn more →Valuable project files on the NAS, remote access from building sites and from home, work for public bodies that set security requirements.
Learn more →Often suppliers to larger companies subject to NIS2: they receive security questionnaires and cannot afford a production stop or a lost order.
Learn more →They handle health data, the most sensitive of all. Specific requirements we look at case by case during the pilot.
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Attackers already use artificial intelligence to write flawless phishing emails and scan for open doors automatically. Whoever defends a small network cannot fall behind, but cannot hire an expert either. Our research works exactly here: bringing intelligent defence to places with no IT department.
It is a network protection service for professional firms and small businesses without an IT department. A Box sits between the office and the internet, closes what is not needed and watches the traffic; when something that matters happens, a plain-language alert reaches the owner's phone with what happened, how serious it is and what to do.
No. The Box also works behind the internet provider's router, which often cannot be removed. The site visit is there to choose the best connection. Go-live takes a few hours and the office is without internet for an hour at most.
Yes, and that is exactly the point: security decisions are made by Strega Defence, not by the owner. It automatically blocks dangerous connections, suspicious logins and countries that attacks come from; if a computer behaves abnormally it isolates it from the network until a technician checks it. Every action is explained to you in a notification and kept in the Log.
A one-off activation and a flat monthly fee, whatever the number of people in the office. The planned launch prices for the pilot programme are €89 a month for the Studio plan and €149 a month for the Business plan, excluding VAT, with the Box included on loan.
No product, on its own, makes an organisation compliant. Strega Defence helps demonstrate security measures: the Log records logins, decisions and changes, and the periodic report is ready to show clients, auditors or the data protection authority, or to attach to questionnaires from clients subject to NIS2.
"Strega" means witch, and we are from Benevento, the city of witches. Legend says a broom behind the door was enough against the janare: the witch had to count all its bristles before coming in. Strega Defence does the same with every connection.
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The pilot programme starts in Campania, Italy: installation, running-in and a few months to measure together how much it is really worth. Tell us about your office.
