Cybersecurity

Enterprise-grade defence, right-sized for growing organisations.

A 24/7 managed security capability engineered around your risk profile — Essential Eight, Zero Trust, penetration testing, incident response and compliance readiness under one accountable partner.

Cyber Defence Division

A 24/7 managed security capability engineered around your risk profile — Essential Eight, Zero Trust, penetration testing, incident response and compliance readiness under one accountable partner.

24/7

SOC monitoring & response

<15m

Median critical alert triage

E8 L2+

Essential Eight uplift target

ISO

27001 & NIST CSF aligned

The problem

Cyber risk has outgrown the tools most organisations have in place.

Identity attacks, ransomware, supply-chain compromise and AI-assisted phishing have redrawn the threat map — but many organisations still lean on antivirus, a firewall and hope. Insurers, boards and regulators no longer accept that posture.

  • No visibility into what's happening across endpoints, identities, email and cloud after hours.
  • Essential Eight or ISO 27001 pressure from insurers, clients or regulators — with no roadmap to meet it.
  • Fragmented tooling from three MSPs and four vendors, with no single source of truth.
  • No incident response plan that has ever been tested against a real scenario.
  • Copilot, SaaS sprawl and shadow AI expanding your attack surface faster than IT can track.
  • Board reporting that reads like a firewall log, not a risk position.

What we deliver

A layered defence capability, delivered as one accountable service.

Assessment, uplift, monitoring, response and compliance — coordinated by senior security engineers, not a ticket queue.

Managed SOC (24/7)

Round-the-clock threat detection and response across identity, endpoint, email, network and cloud.

  • Microsoft Sentinel or CrowdStrike Falcon based
  • Human analysts, not just automated alerts
  • Median <15 min triage on critical incidents

Essential Eight Uplift

Structured programme to lift maturity across all eight controls with measurable checkpoints.

  • Baseline assessment against ML1 → ML3
  • Prioritised uplift plan with budget and owners
  • Continuous evidence collection for auditors

Zero Trust & Identity

Identity-first architecture that assumes breach and verifies every request — human or machine.

  • Entra ID conditional access & PIM
  • MFA hardening, passkeys and passwordless
  • Privileged access management (PAM)

Penetration Testing

External, internal, web app, cloud and phishing simulations by CREST / OSCP-certified testers.

  • External and internal network pen tests
  • Web app, API and mobile app testing
  • Red team and social engineering exercises

Incident Response & Recovery

Contained. Investigated. Recovered. Documented. A retained IR capability you can call at 2 a.m.

  • Retainer model with SLA-backed activation
  • Forensics, containment and eradication
  • Regulator, insurer and client comms support

Governance, Risk & Compliance

Programmes and evidence for ISO 27001, NIST CSF, CIS Controls, APRA CPS 234 and Privacy Act.

  • ISO 27001 readiness and certification support
  • APRA CPS 234, SOCI and NDB obligations
  • Board-grade cyber risk reporting

How we deliver

How we lift you from exposed to defensible — and keep you there.

Every engagement begins with a diagnosis and ends with something you can defend at a board meeting, an audit and an insurance renewal.

  1. 01

    Phase 01 · Assess

    Cyber Posture Assessment

    We benchmark your environment against Essential Eight, ISO 27001 and NIST CSF — and quantify residual risk in dollar terms leadership can act on.

    • Essential Eight maturity scorecard
    • Prioritised risk register with dollar impact
    • Executive briefing pack for the board
  2. 02

    Phase 02 · Harden

    Uplift Programme

    We close the highest-severity gaps first — identity, endpoint, email, patching and backups — with measurable weekly progress.

    • MFA, conditional access and PIM deployed
    • EDR, patching and application control uplift
    • Immutable, tested backup posture
  3. 03

    Phase 03 · Monitor

    24/7 SOC Onboarding

    We integrate telemetry from identity, endpoint, email, network and cloud into a managed SOC with SLA-backed detection and response.

    • Sentinel / EDR onboarding and tuning
    • Playbooks and escalation matrix
    • Monthly threat and risk reporting
  4. 04

    Phase 04 · Prove

    Test, Report & Certify

    Penetration tests, tabletop exercises, evidence packs and board-grade reporting — so your posture is provable, not just claimed.

    • Annual pen test and remediation
    • Tabletop IR exercises with the leadership team
    • Audit-ready evidence library

Managed SOC · Operating rhythm

How a threat moves through our Security Operations Center.

Observe → Detect → Triage → Respond → Report. A continuous loop, staffed by senior analysts, backed by SLAs, closing the gap between an attacker's first move and your defensible response.

  1. 01

    Observe

    Telemetry from identity, endpoint, email, network and cloud into one plane.

    24/7 · Coverage

  2. 02

    Detect

    Correlation rules, ML models and threat intel surface real signal from noise.

    1.2K+ · Detections tuned

  3. 03

    Triage

    Human analysts validate, enrich and prioritise every critical alert.

    <15m · Median triage

  4. 04

    Respond

    Contain identities, isolate endpoints, revoke tokens — with your approval on high-impact actions.

    <1h · Critical MTTR

  5. 05

    Report

    Weekly posture reviews, monthly board-grade reporting, quarterly threat model refresh.

    100% · Audit-ready

Essential Eight

A defensible baseline — the ASD-endorsed way to stop 85%+ of real attacks.

Insurers, regulators and enterprise buyers now expect Essential Eight maturity as table stakes. We deliver a structured programme that moves you from baseline to ML2 or ML3 with evidence you can hand to any auditor — usually inside 6–9 months.

6–9mo

to ML2 typical

85%+

of attacks blocked

1

evidence library

C01
ML3

Application Control

Block unauthorised executables, scripts, installers and drivers by default.

C02
ML2

Patch Applications

Critical vulns patched within 48h. Continuous inventory and evidence.

C03
ML3

Configure MS Office Macros

Macros disabled or restricted, signed sources only, sandboxed execution.

C04
ML2

User Application Hardening

Browsers, PDF readers, Office locked down against known exploit chains.

C05
ML3

Restrict Admin Privileges

Just-in-time PIM, separate admin identities, no standing global admins.

C06
ML2

Patch Operating Systems

OS patch SLAs enforced across servers, workstations, mobile fleet.

C07
ML3

Multi-Factor Authentication

Phishing-resistant MFA — passkeys, FIDO2 — on every identity and app.

C08
ML2

Regular Backups

Immutable, tested restores, offline copies, ransomware-resilient retention.

Zero Trust Architecture

Assume breach. Verify every request. Never trust the network alone.

We design and roll out Zero Trust across identity, devices, applications, network and data — anchored on Microsoft Entra, Defender, Intune and Purview, or the equivalent stack you already run. Governance, telemetry and reporting included.

P01

Identity

Phishing-resistant MFA, conditional access, PIM. Every human and machine identity continuously verified.

  • · Entra ID + PIM
  • · Passkeys / FIDO2
  • · Session risk scoring
P02

Devices

Only compliant, managed endpoints reach corporate data. Non-compliant devices are quarantined at sign-in.

  • · Intune compliance
  • · EDR posture check
  • · Attack Surface Reduction
P03

Applications

SaaS and internal apps behind identity-aware access, with app protection policies enforced.

  • · Defender for Cloud Apps
  • · App Proxy / ZTNA
  • · OAuth app governance
P04

Network

Perimeter dissolved. Micro-segmentation, encrypted transit, no implicit trust between workloads.

  • · Micro-segmentation
  • · SASE / SSE overlay
  • · DNS security
P05

Data

Sensitivity labels, DLP, encryption and Insider Risk on data at rest, in transit and in use.

  • · Purview labels
  • · DLP + IRM
  • · Copilot data boundaries

Fast-start

Zero Trust Readiness Sprint

Two-week assessment against Microsoft's Zero Trust maturity model — with a prioritised 90-day rollout plan, budget and evidence pack included.

Book the sprint

Managed SOC (24/7)

A senior security team on watch — every hour of every day.

Round-the-clock detection, triage and response engineered around your risk profile. Microsoft-first, vendor-flexible, SLA-backed, and delivered by named analysts you can actually reach — not a ticket queue.

SOC · Online
12Analysts on shift
84Client environments
2.6MEvents / 24h
38Critical triaged
47mMedian MTTR

SIEM & XDR

Sentinel or CrowdStrike deployed, tuned and continuously improved by our engineers.

Human analysts

Named senior analysts on rotation — not a shared queue in an offshore call centre.

Active response

We contain, isolate and revoke — pre-approved playbooks, human oversight on high-impact actions.

Threat hunting

Proactive hunts against your telemetry using latest TTPs and threat intel every week.

Reporting & governance

Weekly ops reviews, monthly board packs, quarterly threat model refresh, annual pen test.

IR retainer built-in

SLA-backed activation of our incident response team — forensics, comms, regulator support.

Essential

24/7 monitoring for lean teams

  • MDR on identity + endpoint
  • Business-hour analyst response
  • Monthly reporting

Enterprise

Most chosen

Full-fabric SOC for mid-market

  • Identity, endpoint, email, cloud, network
  • 24/7 analyst response with active containment
  • Weekly ops review + IR retainer

Critical

Regulated / high-risk environments

  • Dedicated named analyst pod
  • Sub-30-minute critical MTTR SLA
  • On-site IR + regulator support

Measured outcomes

What a mature cyber programme with us typically looks like.

E8 ML2+

Maturity uplift

in 6–9 months on average across all 8 controls.

-70%

Incident dwell time

median detection to containment window.

30–50%

Insurance saving

on renewals with hardened posture evidence.

0

Successful ransomware

events across monitored clients last 24 months.

Our insurer took one look at the evidence pack and dropped our premium. More importantly, we've stopped waking up wondering what's happening on our network.
CFO · Mid-market Manufacturing Group

Tooling & partners

We build on enterprise-grade platforms, not novelty stacks.

SIEM & SOC

  • Microsoft Sentinel
  • Defender XDR
  • CrowdStrike Falcon
  • Arctic Wolf

Identity

  • Entra ID
  • Entra PIM
  • Okta
  • Duo
  • BeyondTrust

Endpoint & network

  • Defender for Endpoint
  • SentinelOne
  • Palo Alto
  • Fortinet
  • Cisco Umbrella

Governance

  • ISO 27001
  • NIST CSF
  • Essential Eight
  • APRA CPS 234
  • Vanta / Drata

Frequently asked

Executive-level questions we hear most.

Do we have to rip and replace our existing security stack?+

Almost never. We start by getting more value from what you already own — Microsoft licences alone often unlock 60–70% of what enterprises pay third parties for. We only recommend new tooling where it closes a real gap.

How fast can you stand up managed SOC coverage?+

For Microsoft-first environments, we typically have baseline 24/7 monitoring live within 2–4 weeks, with full tuning and playbook maturity by week 8.

Can you help us meet Essential Eight ML2 for a client or insurer requirement?+

Yes. We run Essential Eight uplift programmes with fixed milestones, evidence collection and an audit-ready report — usually 6–9 months to ML2 depending on starting point.

What happens if we're breached tomorrow?+

Retainer clients get SLA-backed activation of our incident response team, including forensics, containment and comms support for regulators, insurers and customers. Non-retainer engagements are possible but slower and more expensive.

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