Built for East Africa
SME-Shield scans your network, identifies vulnerable services, and gives you plain-English advice — so any business owner can act on it. No IT degree required.
CVEs tracked from the NIST
National Vulnerability Database
Ports scanned and analysed
on every single audit
Average time to a complete
PDF-ready security audit
Core capabilities
SME-Shield combines network discovery, port scanning, CVE intelligence, and plain-English reporting into one tool built for the realities of Kenyan business.
Network Discovery
Automatically detects your subnet and sweeps every IP address, returning every active device — computers, printers, routers, and IoT devices — with hostnames resolved.
Banner Grabbing
Connects to each open port and reads the service banner to extract the exact product name and version number — turning "port 80 open" into "nginx 1.18.0".
CVE Intelligence
Cross-references every discovered service against the NIST National Vulnerability Database in real time, pulling CVSS scores and descriptions for each known weakness.
Risk Scoring
Translates raw CVE data into a single 0–100 security score using a logarithmic algorithm. Critical vulnerabilities impact more than minor ones, with diminishing returns to avoid panic scoring.
PDF Reports
Generates a downloadable PDF with plain-English explanations any business owner can act on — score, findings, and prioritised fix advice — in the EAT timezone.
Remediation Advice
Every CVE comes with a specific, actionable fix — not just "update your software" but exactly which version to install and what setting to change, with 30+ curated entries.
Simple by design
No configuration files. No command line. Open the dashboard, click a button, and receive a full security audit in minutes.
Detect your network
SME-Shield reads your machine's network interface and automatically calculates the correct subnet — no manual IP configuration required.
Discover devices
A concurrent worker pool sweeps every IP in the subnet, probing common ports to find active hosts — routers, servers, printers, cameras — and resolves their hostnames.
Deep audit
Select any device and SME-Shield scans 23 ports, grabs service banners, queries the NVD for CVEs, and streams every finding live to your dashboard as it is discovered.
Download your report
Receive a branded PDF with your security score, open services, CVE findings, and plain-English recommendations — ready to share with your IT person or print for a client.
SME-Shield Audit Report
SCN-0042 · 04 Jun 2026, 13:00 EAT
Recommended: Update OpenSSH to 9.8p1+ immediately. Patch CVE-2024-6387 (Critical 9.8).
Plain-English PDF reports
Most security tools produce reports full of CVE IDs and CVSS matrices that only an IT professional can interpret. SME-Shield translates every finding into language your staff can act on.
Score with context
Your security score comes with a full paragraph explaining what it means for your business — not just a number.
Prioritised action list
Every vulnerable service gets a numbered action with a specific fix — which version to install, which setting to change.
EAT timestamps
Reports are timestamped in East Africa Time — no UTC conversions. Dates and times are immediately meaningful to your team.
Run your first audit in under three minutes. No account, no credit card, no configuration. Just open the dashboard and scan.
Get in touch
Whether you want to deploy SME-Shield for your business, collaborate, or just talk network security, reach out directly.