CYBERSECURITY SERVICES
Security You Can Count On
Cyber attacks on Australian businesses are increasing in both frequency and sophistication — and small-to-medium businesses are now explicitly targeted, not just caught in the crossfire of campaigns aimed at larger organisations. The Australian Cyber Security Centre (ACSC) reports that cybercrime costs Australian businesses billions of dollars annually, with business email compromise, ransomware, and credential theft among the most damaging incidents. The uncomfortable truth is that most successful attacks exploit basic, fixable weaknesses — not sophisticated zero-day exploits.
ELECTRICLATTE's cybersecurity practice focuses on practical risk management — understanding what data and systems are most valuable to your business, identifying the most likely attack vectors, and building proportionate defences that you can actually implement and maintain. We produce recommendations you can act on, not just compliance reports that sit in a folder. Our work spans risk assessments, the Australian Government's Essential Eight framework, security architecture, cloud security, and incident response preparedness.
RISK ASSESSMENT
Identify and prioritise your vulnerabilities based on likelihood and business impact — so you fix what matters most first.
ESSENTIAL EIGHT
ASD Essential Eight gap analysis against your current maturity level, with a prioritised remediation roadmap.
SECURITY ARCHITECTURE
Design secure systems from the ground up — or review existing architectures for weaknesses before they're exploited.
What Our Security Practice Covers
Our cybersecurity work is practical and outcomes-focused. We help you understand your real exposure, prioritise improvements based on risk and budget, and implement changes that genuinely reduce your attack surface. Here's what we deliver.
Cybersecurity Risk Assessment
A risk assessment is the foundation of a meaningful cybersecurity program. We interview key stakeholders, review your current technology environment, and identify the assets that matter most to your business — then systematically assess the threats and vulnerabilities that could compromise them. The output is a risk register that prioritises findings by likelihood and business impact, so your leadership team can make informed decisions about where to invest in security controls. We write these reports to be understood by both technical staff and non-technical business owners — not padded with jargon to appear thorough.
ASD Essential Eight Gap Analysis & Remediation
The Australian Signals Directorate's Essential Eight is a set of mitigation strategies that the ACSC recommends as a baseline for protecting against the most common cyber attacks. The eight strategies are: application control, patch applications, configure Microsoft Office macro settings, user application hardening, restrict administrative privileges, patch operating systems, multi-factor authentication, and regular backups. We assess your current maturity against each strategy (Maturity Level 0 through 3), identify gaps, and produce a prioritised remediation roadmap. For organisations with contractual or regulatory requirements to demonstrate Essential Eight compliance, we can produce the evidence documentation needed for assessment.
Security Architecture Review
Security architecture reviews assess how a system or environment has been designed from a security perspective — whether access controls are correctly structured, whether data is appropriately segregated, whether authentication mechanisms are robust, whether sensitive data is encrypted in transit and at rest, and whether the architecture provides appropriate monitoring and alerting capability. We review both proposed architectures (before systems are built) and existing environments (to identify weaknesses before they're exploited). Reviews produce a structured findings report with risk ratings and recommended remediation actions for each issue.
Cloud Security (Azure)
Moving to the cloud doesn't automatically make you more secure — it changes the security model and introduces new risks that need to be managed. We assess and harden Azure environments against the most common cloud security weaknesses: overly permissive RBAC roles, publicly exposed storage accounts, absent network security groups, missing MFA enforcement, and lack of logging and alerting. We enable and configure Microsoft Defender for Cloud, implement Azure Policy guardrails to prevent misconfiguration from reaching production, and set up Microsoft Sentinel for security event correlation and alerting where the environment warrants it. Cloud security is an ongoing activity, not a one-time exercise.
Identity & Access Management Security
Identity-based attacks — phishing, credential theft, and business email compromise — are the leading cause of data breaches in Australia. Securing your identity infrastructure is the highest-ROI security investment most organisations can make. We review and implement multi-factor authentication (MFA) across all user accounts, configure Microsoft Entra ID Conditional Access policies to enforce MFA based on risk signals, implement privileged access workstations and Privileged Identity Management (PIM) for admin accounts, review and remediate excessive permissions in Microsoft 365 and Azure, and configure sign-in risk policies to detect and block suspicious authentication attempts automatically.
Incident Response Planning
Most organisations don't have a documented plan for what to do when a security incident occurs — and the absence of a plan in the middle of an incident is extremely costly, both financially and reputationally. We work with your team to develop incident response plans tailored to your most likely incident scenarios: ransomware, business email compromise, data breach, and account takeover. Plans document roles and responsibilities, initial containment steps, evidence preservation procedures, communication protocols (internal and external, including notifiable data breach obligations under the Australian Privacy Act), and recovery procedures. We can also run tabletop exercises to test the plan and train your team before an incident occurs.
Cybersecurity Is Risk Management, Not Just Technology
Perfect security is impossible — every security control involves a trade-off between protection, usability, and cost. Our job is to help you understand your specific risk profile and make informed decisions about which controls to implement, in what order, at what cost. A small professional services firm with 20 staff has different risks and different appropriate controls than a manufacturing business with 200 staff and operational technology systems.
We don't use fear to sell unnecessary services. If your biggest security risk is that 30% of your staff have never been asked to use MFA, we'll tell you that — and help you fix it for a fraction of the cost of an elaborate security programme. Foundational controls implemented and maintained consistently are almost always more effective than sophisticated tools that nobody actually monitors.
We also work alongside your existing IT team or MSP rather than replacing them. If your managed service provider handles day-to-day infrastructure and you need specialist security advisory on top of that, that's a common engagement model for us.
Australian Compliance Frameworks We Work With
- ASD Essential Eight (ACSC guidance)
- Australian Privacy Act & Notifiable Data Breaches scheme
- ISO 27001 (alignment and gap analysis)
- PCI-DSS (scoping and technical controls)
- Australian Government ISM (cloud workloads)
Cybersecurity Services — Frequently Asked Questions
LET'S ASSESS YOUR SECURITY POSTURE
Tell us about your environment and one of our security consultants will respond within one business day.