About us

SWIX is a New Zealand company built on a simple idea: most businesses can’t see what’s happening on their own network, and the tools that are supposed to help — an annual audit, antivirus software — only tell part of the story. SWIX watches continuously, and has a real person check what it finds before it ever reaches you.

No Single Vendor Sees Everything

An audit is a snapshot. Security is continuous.

An annual audit tells you how things looked on one day. No single vendor — Microsoft included — covers the whole picture on its own. Independent monitoring layered on top is what gives you an unbiased, ongoing view of what’s actually happening, not a once-a-year snapshot.

Built In New Zealand

Our own data centre, on our own soil

SWIX is built in New Zealand, and now backed by New Zealand infrastructure we own outright: our own data centre, not resold space in someone else’s cloud. See how that works on the Trust & security page.

The Numbers

What’s actually happening in New Zealand

These are national figures from the National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC, part of the GCSB — incident reporting formerly sat under CERT NZ, which now redirects here). They cover all reported New Zealand incidents, not SMBs specifically, and count only what gets reported — so the real picture is understated. Two findings matter most for a monitoring service like SWIX:

• Unauthorised access caused about half of all reported financial loss ($1.3m of $2.7m) — exactly the kind of activity continuous monitoring catches and an annual audit doesn’t.
• A small number of incidents cause most of the damage. Incidents of $10,000 or more were only 49 reports out of the quarter’s total, but accounted for 91% of the money lost — which is why early detection is worth paying for.

In full: the NCSC responded to 1,129 incident reports in Q2 2026 (down from 1,164 in Q1), with $2.7 million in direct financial loss reported (down 52% from $5.6m in Q1). 92 incidents were triaged for specialist technical support due to potential national significance, a 20% increase on Q1’s 77 — of which 23% were assessed as likely linked to state-sponsored actors and 37% to cybercrime actors.

Source: NCSC Quarter Two Cyber Security Insights 2026 (1 April – 30 June 2026) — ncsc.govt.nz/insights-and-research/insights-reports