Cybersecurity Audits & Essential Eight Alignment

What’s included

We assess your systems, access controls, and operational practices against real attack scenarios, then map the gaps against the Australian Cyber Security Centre’s Essential Eight, the baseline most Australian regulators, insurers, and larger partners now expect. You get a written report ranking every finding by actual risk to your business, not a generic checklist score.

Our process

1. Discovery call. We learn how your business actually operates: what systems you depend on, who has access to what, and what a bad day would look like.
2. Assessment. We review configuration, access controls, backup and patch practices, and email/endpoint security against each of the eight mitigation strategies.
3. Roadmap. You get a written report with every finding rated by likelihood and impact, plus a prioritised, plain-English remediation plan.
4. Walkthrough. We sit down and go through the findings together. No report gets emailed and left to gather dust.

Essential Eight, briefly

The Essential Eight covers application control, patching applications and operating systems, restricting admin privileges, application hardening, configuring Microsoft Office macro settings, multi-factor authentication, and regular backups. Each strategy is scored across four maturity levels; most SMBs we work with are aiming for Maturity Level One or Two, not the highest tier reserved for high-value targets.

Who this is for

Brokers and finance firms with client financial data, and any SMB that’s been asked by an insurer, bank, or larger partner to demonstrate a baseline level of security maturity.

What you get

A written findings report, a prioritised remediation roadmap, and a working session to walk through it. If you want us to handle the remediation too, that’s a separate, scoped engagement. The audit itself comes with no obligation to continue.