Cyber Security and Risk Consulting, Melbourne

Engage our Cybersecurity and Risk practice for security assessment, compliance frameworks and incident response planning around:

• APRA CPS 234
• Customer audit
• Breach notification
• Insurance renewal
• Phishing incident
• Pre-IPO due diligence
• Board sign-off
• Penetration test
• Ransomware exposure
• Tender requirement

Many Australian businesses now sit in the sweet spot for cyber attackers. Big enough to be worth attacking, profitable enough to pay ransom, and rarely defended at the standard the large end of town has assumed for a decade. Ransomware operators have deliberately moved beyond the largest companies. Cyber insurance premiums for these businesses have climbed sharply, and policy carve-outs have widened. Customer security questionnaires have become routine. So have the supplier audits attached to them.

The costs land long before any breach occurs. Contracts deferred while assessors review your controls. Partnerships frozen while your insurance carrier asks for evidence you cannot produce. A finance team running compliance evidence collection by spreadsheet because nobody owns the framework. Tier-one customers asking for ISO 27001 certification within twelve months, with renewal at stake. The average Australian breach is reported at $4.26 million by IBM, but that figure is dwarfed by the slower revenue cost of an unproven posture in a market that now requires proof.

The board, a customer's assessor and, after an eligible data breach, the OAIC can each ask for evidence that your controls are proportionate to the risk. At its simplest, that evidence starts with three documents. A Security Posture Assessment rates each finding by likelihood and consequence. An Incident Response Plan is rehearsed in a tabletop exercise before it is needed. A Compliance and Governance Framework maps each control to the regulatory or contractual obligation it addresses.

• A Security Posture Assessment covering network, application, identity, data and endpoints with risk-rated findings and a sequenced remediation plan.
• A Penetration Testing Report covering web applications, APIs and internal infrastructure with exploitability ratings.
• An Incident Response Plan that includes detection, containment, eradication, recovery, communication and OAIC notification timelines, stress-tested via tabletop exercise.
• A Compliance and Governance Framework aligned to ISO 27001, NIST CSF and the ASD Essential 8 with gap analysis and implementation timeline.
• A Security Awareness Program covering phishing simulation, security champions and quarterly campaigns.

Frontier AI now does much of the monitoring and evidence-gathering that would otherwise occupy a security team of three. It reads cloud, endpoint and identity logs 24/7, correlating millions of events in minutes to surface incident patterns worth investigating. It compares live configuration with the Essential Eight and ISO 27001 Annex A technological controls, and flags each gap. Phishing templates, awareness content and policy drafts are produced and reviewed in days rather than weeks. An experienced adviser still judges which findings are exploitable in your environment and whether a breach is likely to result in serious harm and must be notified.

We assess your environment, sequence the remediation and prepare the evidence that an ISO 27001 certification auditor or a customer's assessor will ask to see. A big-four GRC engagement covers the same ground at tier-one rates over four to six months, whereas our work takes weeks. A managed security services provider will often charge enterprise rates for tooling the customer never fully uses. Recommendations are proportionate to your threat profile and built around the systems you already run.