A security engineering group, since 2013.
Yinkozi is the engineering and contracting parent of the YinkoShield product line. Two offices. Tier-1 customer base across banks, payments, government, energy, and telecommunications. The work has compounded for thirteen years.
Thirteen years of continuous security engineering practice.
Operating across Africa, the Middle East, Europe, and North America.
Banks, payment networks, government bodies, energy operators, telcos — across four continents.
YinkoShield deployment, anchored at a tier-1 bank.
Thirteen years, in order.
Founded
Yinkozi founded with a single thesis: take on the hardest problems in cybersecurity, for institutions where the consequences are largest.
Service practice scales
Multi-year engagements across banks, payments, government, and energy. Hardware lab established. First custom security-engineering builds.
First product deployment
The engineering practice's recurring patterns are extracted into what becomes YinkoShield. First production roll-out at a tier-1 South African bank.
YinkoShield reaches scale
30M+ endpoints in production. Specification work begins on what will become YEI-001.
YEI-001 specification published
Reference verifiers in four languages. Knowledge Center launched.
Today
Two offices (Dubai, Cape Town). Continuing engagements across four continents. The engineering practice and the product line operate alongside each other.
Where the firm is registered.
Two operating offices today. A historical Hong Kong office is closed but kept as a reference for due-diligence audits.
Middle East, North Africa, and South Asia operations. Sovereign-customer engagement hub.
Sub-Saharan Africa operations. Hardware lab, primary engineering and YinkoShield support.
Former regional office. Closed; retained on the public record for vendor due-diligence audits.
Yinkozi is the contracting entity.
All commercial engagements — services, engineering, and YinkoShield deployment — are billed by Yinkozi. MSAs, NDAs, and DPAs are available on request.
We accept supplier-onboarding processes from large institutions (KYC, AML, financial-stability disclosures, security questionnaires). Allow ten business days for first-time procurement onboarding at a tier-1 bank or government body.
Out-of-scope by design, not by oversight.
We do not chase compliance certifications as a business strategy. PCI DSS, SOC 2, and ISO 27001 are not our customer's lever — they are the customer's compliance, not ours.
Our work is engineered to be deployed inside the customer's compliance boundary. We do not store customer data, we do not operate the customer's systems, and we do not sit in the trust path. Our default deployment is sovereign and on-customer-infrastructure.
For specific procurement audits we provide architecture and data-flow documentation; we do not pretend to certifications we do not hold.