Security audits
A structured review of your websites, email, cloud accounts, and devices — what an attacker would try first, ranked by real risk, reported in plain English.
Cyber security
Security your business can understand
Cyber security services for Australian small and mid-sized businesses — audits, hardening, monitoring, and staff training explained in plain English, not fear and acronyms.
What you get
Everything handled, nothing hidden
Essential Eight alignment
The Australian Signals Directorate’s Essential Eight, applied at small-business scale: patching, MFA, backups, and access control implemented pragmatically, not as a compliance checkbox.
Website & cloud hardening
Locking down the things most Melbourne businesses leave open: WordPress and web app hardening, cloud account permissions, DNS and email security (SPF, DKIM, DMARC).
Backup & recovery
Ransomware-resistant backups that are actually tested. If the worst happens, you restore in hours — not negotiate in Bitcoin.
Staff awareness training
Most breaches start with a click. Short, non-patronising training and simulated phishing that turns your team into the first line of defence.
Monitoring & response
Ongoing monitoring of your sites and critical accounts, malware scanning, and a clear incident plan so a bad day stays a bad day, not a bad quarter.
How it works
A process without black boxes
Assess
A Discovery Session and audit of your current exposure — sites, email, cloud, devices, and people.
Prioritise
A ranked, plain-English risk report: what to fix now, what can wait, what it costs.
Harden
We implement the fixes — MFA, patching, backups, hardening — with minimal disruption to your team.
Maintain
Ongoing monitoring, scanning, and quarterly reviews so security keeps pace as you grow.
Questions
Straight answers
Does a small business really need cyber security?
Yes — small businesses are the majority of Australian cyber crime victims precisely because attackers assume they are unprotected. The average reported cost per incident for a small business runs into tens of thousands of dollars, and basics like MFA, patching, and tested backups prevent most of it.
What is the Essential Eight?
The Essential Eight is the Australian Signals Directorate’s baseline of eight mitigation strategies — including multi-factor authentication, application patching, restricting admin privileges, and regular backups. We implement it at a scale and cost that makes sense for small and mid-sized businesses.
How much do cyber security services cost?
A one-off small-business security audit typically starts around $1,500 + GST, with hardening work quoted as fixed items from the report. Ongoing monitoring and management is a monthly engagement scoped to your systems. Everything is priced before work starts.
Can you secure the website you build for us?
Yes — every website we build ships hardened by default, and our care plans include malware scanning, daily backups, and updates. For sites we did not build, we start with an audit and go from there.
What should I do if my business has been hacked?
Disconnect affected systems, change passwords from a clean device, preserve evidence, and report it via the Australian Cyber Security Centre (cyber.gov.au). Then get help assessing the damage — we assist with containment, recovery, and hardening so it does not happen twice.
Next step
Find the gaps before someone else does.
Book a free Discovery Session. We will give you an honest read on your exposure and a ranked plan to close it — in plain English.