about · yinkozi group
The parent group. Securing systems used by millions, since 2013.
Yinkozi is an independent information-security firm with active offices in the UAE and South Africa, plus a historical Hong Kong presence. Its practice is built on proprietary research and threat-based assessment, not commodity tooling. YinkoShield is the product line that productised the device-side execution-evidence work for digital payments.
Yinkozi specialises in penetration testing and security engineering across complex systems — banking, government, AI inference paths, blockchain protocols, hardware security. The work is manual, threat-based, and customised to the engagement; commercial scanners are part of the toolkit, never the substance.
Active security projects span three continents. Customers include Tier-1 banks, government bodies, software companies, and enterprises operating systems at scale. The firm's claim is straightforward: recognised researchers, top consulting skills, threat-based assessment.
YinkoShield is the productisation of one strand of that work — the device-side execution-evidence pattern Yinkozi extracted from years of running runtime-security infrastructure inside payment estates. The specification is published; the substrate is in production.
Where Yinkozi's research and engineering work lives.
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banking
Tier-1 banks and acquirers — penetration testing, runtime-security engineering, threat-based assessment.
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government
Government bodies — secure-system architecture, adversarial validation, classified-context assessments.
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ai · blockchain
Complex emerging-stack systems — AI inference paths, blockchain protocols, novel cryptographic deployments.
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critical infra
Operators of critical infrastructure — bespoke offensive testing, incident-readiness review, custom tooling.
What the group ships.
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YinkoShield
READ →Execution Evidence Infrastructure (EEI) — the device-bound evidence layer for digital payments. In production since 2019; anchor reference at a Tier-1 South African bank.
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Penetration testing & offensive research
↗Yinkozi's core service line — manual, threat-based assessment of complex systems. Customised for the engagement, not commodity-tooled.
Two active offices. One historical reference.
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Middle East
Dubai, UAE
TechnoHub 1,2 · Dubai Silicon Oasis
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Africa
Cape Town, ZA
32 Kloof Street · Gardens · 8001
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Asia-Pacific
closed
Hong Kong
Unit 1010, 10/F, Miramar Tower · 132 Nathan Road · Tsim Sha Tsui