IT Advice

NGOs, foundations, missions: your data is about vulnerable people

Beneficiaries, donors, witnesses, field partners: their trust depends on where you store their names.

Your situation

Geneva hosts several hundred NGOs, foundations and international secretariats of 5 to 60 people. Most run on Google Workspace or Microsoft 365 at "nonprofit pricing", with multilingual teams, volunteers, consultants and field offices. Donors now ask for an information-security policy, and the data you hold, beneficiaries, witnesses, donors, is among the most sensitive there is. Neutral hosting, under Swiss law, is an argument your donors understand.

Risks specific to you

  • Dozens of volunteer, intern and consultant accounts never closed.
  • Beneficiary or witness lists in spreadsheets shared with "anyone with the link".
  • Field offices reaching the same data from uncontrolled networks.
  • A security policy written for a donor and never applied.

What we do first

The review of access and sharing, because it removes 80% of the risk in a few days and gives your donor a tangible answer. Then the migration to a Swiss provider (Infomaniak for the full suite, Proton for sensitive communications), keeping nonprofit pricing. Then an AI framework for writing reports and proposals without field data leaving the organisation. For organisations without an IT manager, the outsourced CIO subscription gives your board one person accountable for the whole.

A typical path

A 22-person international secretariat in Grand-Saconnex, funded by three donors. IT Audit Express in English, access review (61 accounts, 22 staff), security policy rewritten in four pages and actually applied, files migrated to kDrive, quarterly IT committee with the director. The annual report to the main donor now includes a security section written in an hour.

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Frequently asked questions

We get Google Workspace for free, why change?

Price is not the only criterion: the question is where your beneficiaries' data is and under which law. Swiss providers offer nonprofit pricing too. And if the migration is not justified, the IT Audit Express tells you how to configure what you have better.

Do you work in English?

Yes, spoken and written, including the reports and policies meant for your donors. Team workshops are held in the team's language.

What about an international organisation?

Large organisations have their own IT department and buy through tenders; we are registered on the procurement platforms. Our value is clearest for secretariats, missions and foundations of 5 to 60 people, who have nobody to lead their IT.

Next step

Two hours to know where you stand

The IT Audit Express reviews your services, your access and your backups, and leaves you a score and ten recommendations ranked by urgency. CHF 490, deducted from the first assignment that follows.

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