Compliance & GRC2 min read
What Ghana's CSA licensing means for businesses buying security
Since January 2026 the Cyber Security Authority enforces licensing of security providers. Here is what that changes for the businesses hiring them.
We build and secure the systems your business runs on.
Secure backends, data platforms and security testing for fintechs, startups and growing businesses in Ghana and beyond. One team that can both build it and break it.
Taking projects
W5 Engineering
Backends, APIs and data platforms with security designed in from the first commit.
Explore EngineeringTaking engagements
W5 Security
Testing, cloud reviews and compliance readiness for teams that cannot afford to be breached.
- Security Health Check
- Web, API & mobile penetration test
- AWS cloud security review
- Smart contract review
- Compliance readiness
- Fractional security lead
- Secure Release retainer
Where most clients start
Each starts with a 20-minute call and a written scope, and ends with a clear next step. Never an open-ended consulting engagement.
W5 Engineering
Secure Build
Your backend or API, designed and built with threat modelling, auth, logging and a pentest before launch.
Typical timeline: 6–12 weeks, depending on scope
W5 Engineering
Data platform build
Pipelines, a warehouse and dashboards on AWS, built so the right people see the right data.
Typical timeline: 4–10 weeks
W5 Security
Security Health Check
Your external attack surface, top web app risks and a cloud quick look, in a 10-page report.
Typical timeline: 5 business days
How every engagement runs
The same four steps whether we are building your API or testing it. You always know what happens next and what it costs.
Step 1
Scope
A call, then a written scope with rules of engagement. Nothing starts without signed authorisation.
Step 2
Test or build
Delivery against the scope. Critical findings are reported the same day, not saved for the report.
Step 3
Report
A one-page executive summary, reproducible proof for every issue, and fixes a developer can follow. Every finding is peer reviewed.
Step 4
Retest & support
A free retest within 30 days and a debrief call, then an option to keep us on retainer.
What you can hold us to
Security buyers pay for trust. These are the commitments written into every contract, not marketing claims.
Request a redacted sample reportWritten authorisation, always
We never test anything without a signed scope and rules of engagement. Not even a prospect's site to win the sale.
Same-day critical findings
If we find something serious, you hear about it that day by phone, not in the final report.
Two sets of eyes
Every finding and every pull request is peer reviewed before it reaches you.
Your data, deleted on schedule
Findings are stored encrypted, seen only by the people on your project and deleted 90 days after it closes.
Notes from the work
Exploit breakdowns, secure-build patterns, data platform lessons and Ghana's regulations, explained.
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Tell us what you are building or worried about.
A 20-minute call is enough to know whether we can help and what it would involve. No pitch deck.