Development IT Solutions

Lean and mean

At Development IT Solutions, we aim to be a skilled and trustworthy partner for you, our client. Our approach focuses on designing web applications tailored to your specific needs, rather than pushing pre-existing solutions. We conduct thorough assessments of your requirements to ensure we have a solid conceptual design in place before providing a quote for the proposed implementation.

Our expertise is focused: we don’t manage Windows installations, logo design, or data capture. Instead, we dedicate ourselves to what we excel at: web portal design, development, hosting management, and maintenance.

Even in our areas of expertise, we believe in the power of collaboration. As lifelong learners, we cannot exist without sharing ideas and experiences with others in our field. Our global network primarily consists of Laravel developers, and for larger projects, we partner with the highly skilled Octoplus Information Systems based in Pretoria. When you work with us, you benefit from their expertise as well, and vice versa. This partnership has proven to be mutually beneficial, with directors from both companies each bringing over twenty-five years of web application development experience.

Security

Development IT Solutions is dedicated to ensuring that our systems and services remain secure and protected against any threats to our clients' interests.

Best practices

We consistently adhere to industry-standard best practices for the security of the platforms and applications we use and develop. Our infrastructure is provided by reputable service providers, including Amazon Web Services, VULTR, and Digital Ocean. On this foundation, we operate using Ubuntu LINUX LTS systems, applying security updates as they are released. Most of the applications we host utilise a LEMP (LINUX, Nginx, MySQL, PHP) stack, with server management conducted primarily through Laravel Forge. We manage our source code using GitHub and Atlassian Bitbucket, while application deployments are typically handled via Laravel Envoyer and Laravel Vapor. Our applications are largely built on the Laravel web application framework, with security always at the forefront of our design process.

While we take extensive precautions, we acknowledge that mistakes can happen, and we depend on systems and infrastructure maintained by others, which may also have vulnerabilities. No internet-based system is entirely secure. We assess risks and measures collaboratively with our clients, balancing security requirements against effort and cost.

Reporting Security Issues

If you discover any security concerns on our platforms or within our applications, please inform us. You can reach out via email at security@dits-sa.com with details of your findings and any recommendations. We greatly appreciate your help!

Acknowledgements

In the section below, we will acknowledge everyone who has alerted us to legitimate security issues related to our infrastructure, services, and applications.