Your business is a target. Let's make sure it's not an easy one.
Security isn't one product you tick off a list - it's a stack of controls that work together, so when one fails, the next catches what it missed. We put the layers in place, monitor them, and respond when something looks wrong, from our Gold Coast and Toowoomba offices.
Every layer, covering the next.
Built around the SMB1001:2026 framework as our scaffold, extended with the tooling and processes modern businesses need.
Are you protected?
Ten quick questions you can answer from where you sit - no logins or settings screens required. If the honest answer is "not sure", that's worth knowing too.
Do your staff need a second step, like a code or an app prompt, to sign in to email and key systems?
Does your team use a password manager, rather than reusing passwords or keeping them in a spreadsheet?
Are your backups tested by actually restoring files, not just assumed to be running?
Does every computer in the business, including any servers, have security software that someone actively monitors?
Is your email filtered for phishing and fake-invoice scams before it reaches staff inboxes?
Are software updates applied promptly across all your computers, including any servers?
When someone leaves the business, are their accounts and access switched off the same day?
Has your team had any training on spotting scam emails in the last year?
If your systems went down right now, is there a written plan for who does what?
Do you know exactly who has administrator access to your systems, and is it limited to the people who need it?
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Prefer straight answers? Book your IT review and we'll work through these with you.
Strong foundations.
Most of the fundamentals are in place, which already puts you ahead of most businesses. Security does drift, though - tools get switched off, exceptions pile up, people move on. A periodic review confirms what you've answered here is still true in six months.
Solid in places, with gaps to close.
You have some fundamentals covered, but the questions you answered 'no' or 'not sure' to are where incidents usually start. A 'not sure' generally means nobody has checked lately, and that is itself the gap. A review puts the list in priority order so the riskiest ones get closed first.
You're carrying real risk.
Several fundamentals are missing or unknown. That's more common than you'd think - plenty of the businesses we review start exactly here, and none of it is hard to fix once you have a clear starting position. A review gives you exactly that: what's in place, what isn't, and what to fix first.
An Australian standard, not a marketing slide.
SMB1001:2026 is the Australian cybersecurity framework built specifically for small-to-medium businesses.
We use it as our scaffold, covering governance, identity and access controls, data protection, configuration hardening, backup and recovery, training, and incident response. Your maturity against each domain is documented and reviewed, so you can see exactly where you stand.
A real starting position before we start prescribing.
New security engagements start with a security audit: what's in place, what's actually working, and where the exposed flanks are.
From there we close the gaps in priority order, then manage the tooling. Tools drift; alerts get muted; rules get watered down. Security without ongoing management is an incident waiting to happen.
When something does happen, we have a plan.
Ransomware. Account compromise. A notifiable data incident.
We have documented procedures for each - defined roles, communication plans, post-incident reporting. The clients who've needed them got their systems back, their stakeholders briefed, and a report on what happened and what's changed so it doesn't happen again.
Not sure where you stand?
Every Evaluation finds security gaps. Let's find yours.