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Security Operations

Real protection. Not compliance theatre. A Security Operations Centre that watches your environment around the clock, catches what matters, and responds fast, run by senior NZ engineers and not a triage script.

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Why a SOC

A Security Operations Centre is a dedicated team that monitors your IT environment around the clock for cyber threats, suspicious activity, and security incidents. For most Australian SMEs, building an in-house SOC is impractical. It needs specialist staff, expensive tooling, and round-the-clock coverage. An outsourced SOC gives you the same protection at a fraction of the cost, using enterprise-grade tools like SentinelOne EDR, email threat filtering, and vulnerability scanning.

Ransomware gangs don't care about company size. Phishing campaigns don't check revenue before targeting your staff. When something happens at 2am on a Saturday, you need someone watching. Most IT providers bolt on security as an afterthought, sell you antivirus, and call it protection. We built security into how we operate from the ground up.

You're told it's covered. We make it provable.

What we monitor

Endpoints, identity, email, cloud, and network, with signals correlated so the real threats surface rather than noise. The detail behind the headline:

  • Endpoint protection on every laptop, desktop, and mobile, with behaviour analysis, threat detection, and automated response.
  • Identity monitoring for login attempts, privilege escalation, and impossible travel, flagging anomalies before accounts are compromised.
  • Email security against business email compromise, credential harvesting, and impersonation, layered to stop threats before they reach inboxes.
  • Cloud and applications watched across Microsoft 365, Azure, and line-of-business apps for data exfiltration, configuration drift, and shadow IT.

Incident response

Detection is pointless without response. If it's serious, we act immediately, isolating compromised devices, blocking malicious access, and containing the blast radius, then communicating clearly about what happened and what we're doing. Our incident response is battle-tested process refined over years of handling real attacks. We've contained ransomware outbreaks, hunted persistent attackers, and recovered businesses from serious compromises.

Our global partner SOC network provides round-the-clock monitoring while our local team handles escalations and incident response during business hours. When you're under attack, you want a team that already knows your environment and can move fast.

Proactive security

Find weaknesses before attackers do. Vulnerability management isn't just running scans. It's understanding which vulnerabilities actually matter in your environment, prioritising by real risk, and tracking remediation to completion. Regular security assessments review your posture against current threats and industry frameworks. Patching, configuration hardening, and access reviews are the boring fundamentals that prevent most attacks, handled systematically so nothing falls through the cracks.

Local team, NZ timezone, CERT NZ aligned. Our time zone means attacks often land when overseas security teams are asleep, so local analysts who understand Australian business context and Privacy Act obligations make a real difference. When CERT NZ issues an alert, we're already checking your environment.

In practice
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What you get

The essentials
01 / Always watching
24/7 SOC monitoring
Endpoints, identity, email, cloud, and network watched around the clock, with threats identified and escalated before they become breaches.
02 / Always ready
Incident response
A 15-minute response target on critical incidents. Detect, isolate, contain, and communicate, with battle-tested process behind every step.
03 / Always improving
Proactive security
Vulnerability management, security assessments, and the hygiene fundamentals, so weaknesses are found and fixed before attackers reach them.
On the record
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Security, measured.

By the numbers
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SOC monitoring,
around the clock
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Response target
on critical incidents
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MFA enforced
as a baseline
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Local team,
CERT NZ aligned
Common questions
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Security, answered.

FAQ

Small businesses should prioritise endpoint protection (antivirus and EDR), email security, multi-factor authentication, regular backups, and security awareness training. These cover the most common attack vectors and are required by most cyber insurance policies.

Industry guidelines suggest 10 to 15 percent of your IT budget should go to security. For small businesses, this typically means $50 to $150 per user per month for comprehensive protection including endpoint security, email filtering, backup, and monitoring.

EDR (Endpoint Detection and Response) is advanced security software that monitors devices for suspicious behaviour and can automatically respond to threats. It's more effective than traditional antivirus and is now required by many cyber insurance policies.

Yes, cyber insurance is increasingly essential. A single ransomware attack can cost $200,000 or more in recovery, lost revenue, and reputational damage. Cyber insurance typically costs $1,000 to $5,000 annually for small businesses, but requires you to meet minimum security standards.

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