Cyber Security

Security is a discipline, not a plugin

Most small and medium businesses think about security only after something goes wrong. By then it is an incident, not a precaution. We take the opposite approach: the sites and systems we build and host are secured properly from the start, and for specialist work we bring in people who do nothing but cyber security.

There are two layers to this. The first is the practical protection every website and business needs, which we handle as a matter of course. The second is genuine security assurance, such as penetration testing and compliance, which is specialist territory. For that we work with Vectra Corp.

Everyday protection, handled as standard

The majority of breaches are not sophisticated. They exploit out-of-date software, weak passwords, misconfigured servers and a lack of monitoring. We close those gaps as part of building and hosting a site: keeping software patched, controlling access, hardening servers and firewalls, taking regular off-site backups, and watching for trouble so it is caught early. Done consistently, this prevents the overwhelming majority of attacks a typical business will ever face.

If you have already been compromised, our hacked WordPress recovery service cleans and restores the site, and a maintenance plan keeps it protected afterwards.

Specialist assurance with Vectra Corp

When the stakes are higher, you want specialists. Vectra Corp is a pure-play Australian cyber security firm that, in their own words, has been "trusted by Australians to secure their data and critical assets since 2001" and describes itself as part of the largest cyber security organisation in the Asia Pacific. Working with them, we can bring genuine expertise to the security questions that matter most:

• Penetration testing and vulnerability assessment to find the weaknesses before an attacker does.
• Compliance and assurance for PCI DSS, the ASD Essential Eight, ISO 27001 and IRAP, delivered by accredited assessors.
• Managed security, including managed detection and response, SIEM and threat protection for organisations that need their systems watched around the clock.

This means you are not relying on a marketing agency to be something it is not. You get sensible, built-in protection from us and accredited specialist capability when you need it.

Who this matters most for

Every business benefits from the basics, but specialist security becomes important when you take payments, hold sensitive data, operate in a regulated industry, or have compliance obligations from customers or partners. If any of that applies, it is worth getting ahead of it rather than waiting for an audit, a breach or a failed questionnaire to force the issue.