Cyber Security Consulting for Australian Businesses
PIP helps Sydney businesses implement the ASD Essential Eight, pass security audits, harden email, and respond when an incident hits — cyber security consulting built into your managed IT, not bolted on after a breach. Local Sydney engineers, ISO/IEC 27001-certified infrastructure, and a team that already knows your environment.
Cyber security consulting, without the jargon
Cyber security consulting is the structured advice, implementation and ongoing management of the controls that protect a business — its systems, its data and the people who use them every day. Done well, it gives you something most organisations lack: a clear, honest view of your security posture and a plan to improve it. It is a practical business service, not a technical abstraction.
PIP’s approach covers four disciplines. Prevention — the ASD Essential Eight, endpoint protection, patch management and email security — closes the gaps that cyber attacks exploit. Governance keeps access control, audit trails and your obligations under the Privacy Act in order. Response covers incident detection, breach response and the notification steps when something gets through. And managed continuity means security is maintained as threats and your business change — not a one-off project that dates the day it ships.
PIP is not a pure-play cyber security specialist running offensive red-team campaigns. PIP is the trusted IT partner that builds protection into the relationship: cyber security consultants who already understand your environment, because the same team manages it. That context is what turns a generic checklist into a security strategy matched to how your business actually runs — and it is why many clients start with internet or cloud and grow into a full managed security services relationship.
PIP’s cyber security consultants work with organisations across Australia — professional services firms, medical practices, trades and not-for-profits, from a handful of staff to companies with multiple sites. Whatever the industry, the cyber threats are similar and the Australian compliance obligations are the same: protect sensitive data, secure your systems, and be ready before a breach rather than after.
Cyber risk is not hypothetical
The full range of cyber security services
From prevention to response, PIP’s cyber security services span the controls Australian organisations actually need — each engaged on its own or built into your managed IT by Sydney-based cyber security consultants.
Essential Eight Implementation
ASD Essential Eight maturity assessment and implementation. PIP identifies your current maturity level and implements the controls to reach your target, one step at a time.
Learn more →Cyber Security Audits
A structured cyber security audit of your environment — access controls, configuration, backup integrity and security gaps — delivered as a findings report with prioritised, plain-English remediation.
Learn more →Penetration Testing
Authorised penetration testing against your network and web applications — simulating real cyber attacks to identify vulnerabilities before an attacker does. Scoped, methodical, reported.
Learn more →Ransomware Protection
Endpoint protection, tested backups, email filtering and network segmentation engineered to stop ransomware — and to recover fast if it ever gets through.
Learn more →Email Security
Email gateway filtering, phishing protection, SPF/DKIM/DMARC, and employee training against business email compromise — the email-borne threats that start most breaches.
Learn more →Compliance & Incident Response
Alignment with Australian cyber security legislation — the Cyber Security Act 2024 and the NDB scheme — plus structured incident response when a breach occurs.
Learn more →“The businesses that call us after an incident almost always had the same profile: they knew their security wasn’t great, they had a plan to fix it ‘next quarter’, and then they had a ransomware attack on a Wednesday. The gap between knowing you’re exposed and doing something about it is where breaches happen. A security posture assessment costs a fraction of an incident response engagement — and it identifies the vulnerabilities before someone else does.”
— Brad Dixon, PIP [EXPERIENCE QUOTE — approve or replace]How PIP’s security consulting actually runs
If you have never engaged a cyber security consultant, here is the process — methodical, clearly communicated, and sequenced to your budget rather than dropped on you all at once.
Assess
PIP reviews your environment, identifies vulnerabilities and establishes your Essential Eight maturity baseline — a clear picture of your security posture and your real risk profile, not a generic checklist.
Plan
From the assessment, PIP builds a prioritised remediation roadmap. Not everything needs fixing at once — the plan sequences improvements by risk level and business impact, fitting your budget and the way you operate.
Implement
PIP’s engineers deploy the agreed controls — patch cycles, access restrictions, backups, email filtering, MFA and application control — all within your managed IT, no separate project team to manage.
Monitor & Maintain
Security is not a one-time project. PIP continuously monitors your environment, applies patches, reviews access and updates your posture as threat intelligence evolves and your business changes.
Where does your security posture actually stand?
A PIP assessment gives you a clear, prioritised answer — the gaps that matter, ranked by risk, in plain English. Not a generic checklist.
Talk to PIP →Two kinds of business, one accountable partner
A team that runs operations — but security sits outside their lane
- Your IT team manages day-to-day systems for the organisation, but cyber security is outside their core expertise
- You’ve been told to achieve Essential Eight compliance and don’t know where to start
- Your board or insurer is asking about your security and you can’t give a clear answer
- PIP supplements your team — assessing, implementing and maintaining controls alongside your existing staff
PIP is your whole team — with security built in
- PIP is your entire IT environment — managed services with cyber security built in, not bolted on
- No separate security vendor to manage — one team, one relationship, one account manager
- Controls implemented as part of your managed service: patching, backups, MFA and email filtering
- PIP handles the compliance and cyber risk questions your board, insurer or auditor puts to the organisation
The Australian rules you answer to
Cyber security is increasingly a legal and contractual question, not just a technical one. PIP works to the frameworks that apply in Australia — here is the short version.
Notifiable data breaches
Businesses that hold personal information must notify the OAIC of eligible data breaches under the NDB scheme. PIP’s security controls and incident response process are built around these obligations.
New federal obligations
Australia’s Cyber Security Act 2024 introduces mandatory reporting for ransomware payments and strengthens critical infrastructure requirements. PIP keeps clients informed on what these obligations mean for their specific situation.
The benchmark insurers cite
The ASD Essential Eight is increasingly referenced in cyber insurance, government procurement and regulatory guidance. PIP implements and assesses against the framework at every maturity level.
Australian frameworks — not American ones. Australian businesses are measured against Australian standards: the ASD Essential Eight, ISO/IEC 27001 and the Notifiable Data Breaches scheme — not the US NIST Cybersecurity Framework. PIP works to the rules that actually apply here, so your compliance effort is spent where it counts.
Cyber security consulting — common questions
A cyber security consultant assesses your current security posture, identifies vulnerabilities and gaps, and develops and implements a plan to improve your defences. For PIP clients that includes Essential Eight assessment, security audits, email security configuration, patch management, access control review and incident response support — all managed as part of your IT relationship, not handed over as a report.
PIP’s cyber security consulting is integrated with your managed IT service — not a separate engagement with a separate team. Because PIP already manages your environment, controls are implemented faster and with full context. There is no knowledge-transfer gap between your IT team and your security team — they are the same team, and one accountable provider when something goes wrong.
The Essential Eight is the Australian Signals Directorate’s set of eight cyber security mitigation strategies — covering patch management, multi-factor authentication, application control and more. Originally designed for government, it is now the dominant benchmark for Australian business cyber security, referenced by insurers, regulators and government procurement. PIP assesses and implements the Essential Eight for businesses at every maturity level.
PIP’s incident response activates containment, limits further damage, assists with forensics and guides you through the NDB scheme notification process if a reportable data breach has occurred. PIP can also help with communication planning and recovery. Scope depends on your managed IT agreement — talk to PIP about the incident response coverage you have in place.
Latest from PIP Cyber Security
Australian cyber security legislation, Essential Eight guidance, breach analysis, emerging cyber threats and practical security advice for business decision-makers.
Protect your business before the incident — not after.
PIP’s cyber security consulting integrates directly with your managed IT service. Book a security posture assessment, or talk to PIP about your current cyber risk, the threats your organisation faces, and where your biggest exposure sits.