For professional firms and small businesses without an in-house technician, Strega Defence is the network protection service that closes the office to everything it does not need and alerts you only when it matters, in plain language. Unlike branded firewalls, it needs no skills and no licences to renew; unlike traditional managed services, it costs what a small office can afford.
The device that sits in your office, between the network and the internet. It closes everything that is not needed, lets everyday work through and watches the traffic. Two versions: One, for small offices, and Business, for larger companies.
How the Box talks to you. Alerts arrive on your phone, with what happened, how serious it is and what to do; on the computer you see network status, history and actions.
The Box talks to the platform over an encrypted connection that it opens itself: no port needs to be opened towards the outside. Every automatic action is explained in a notification and logged.
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.
Sentinel relies on curated detection rules, on the reputation of addresses and domains and on the Suricata intrusion detection engine. Our research works to make it ever better at learning on its own. research →
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.
Most days Strega Defence stays quiet. When it speaks, it does so on the phone of the owner or contact person, and the trusted technician gets the same alerts in the right place.
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.
Compact Box, alerts and apps, weekly periodic report, support during office hours.
More powerful Box, backup internet line, weekly periodic report, priority support.
It speaks your language. Every alert explains what happened and what to do, without jargon, straight on your phone.
Few alerts, the right ones. Sentinel filters out the noise and reports only what matters.
Installed like an appliance. No network project, no consultancy: the technician starts the Box in a few hours.
Clear pricing. One activation and a flat monthly fee, not tied to the number of users.
No surprises. Every automatic action is explained in a notification and kept in the Log.
Built on open technology. The firewall core is OPNsense, widely used open source software reviewed by a large community.
Local and close by. Installation and support in Italy, by our technicians and local partners; data stored in the European Union.
Useful for privacy. The Log and periodic report help demonstrate the security measures required by the GDPR and by clients subject to NIS2.
We prefer to say it up front. If you need these things, we will happily point you to someone who offers them.
We do not run a security operations centre staffed through the night. Critical alerts still arrive immediately; support works office hours.
We do not open employees' HTTPS traffic: a choice made for simplicity and respect for privacy.
It protects the network. Computers still need their antivirus and data still needs a backup copy.
It helps demonstrate the security measures required by the GDPR and NIS2 clients; compliance remains the organisation's own journey.
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.
To the Strega Defence platform hosted in data centres in the European Union, over an encrypted channel opened by the Box itself: no inbound port is opened in the office. By default devices are pseudonymised in reports and browsing logs are kept to a minimum.
Yes, we hope so. The partner programme gives them a console for all their clients, training and reserved terms. The clients they bring remain theirs: we never contact them directly.
Yes. Strega Defence includes a WireGuard VPN for remote employees, with an alert for logins from unusual countries or repeated failed attempts.
"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.
The first step is a chat: we understand how your office works and which Box you need.
