Advisory

Cyber Security Consulting

Work out what to log, what to detect and where your coverage stops — before you buy anything else.

CyberTI® provides comprehensive methods to assess your risk awareness and establish the level of resilience in your organisation.

Our methodology detects cloud and traditional IT risks, then gives you clear guidance on managing that risk and developing a resilience strategy that holds up under pressure.

SIEM SIEM Security Information and Event Management Centralised collection and correlation of security-relevant events from across an estate, so activity spanning several systems is recognised as a single story. Full glossary →

NSM NSM Network Security Monitoring Observing behaviour across the network rather than enforcing policy at its boundary. Asks what something already inside is doing. Full glossary →

EDR EDR Endpoint Detection and Response Continuous recording of process, file and network activity on the endpoint, so behaviour no prevention engine recognised can still be spotted, investigated and contained. Full glossary →

ATT&CK ATT&CK MITRE ATT&CK® A public knowledge base of adversary behaviour. Version 19, released 28 April 2026, catalogues 15 tactics, 222 techniques and 475 sub-techniques for enterprise environments. Full glossary →

TTP TTP Tactics, Techniques and Procedures The behavioural signature of an adversary — what they are trying to achieve, how they achieve it, and the specific way they carry it out. Full glossary →

Know where the gaps are before you buy anything else

An assessment that ends in a roadmap you can actually work through, rather than a maturity score and an invoice.

What we actually do in an engagement

Four steps, in this order. The order is the method.

01 Scope and risk framing We establish what you are actually protecting and what would hurt, before we look at a single tool.

02 Coverage assessment Your current logging, detection and endpoint coverage mapped against MITRE ATT&CK® v19 — a technique list, not a judgement call.

03 Gap analysis and roadmap Where coverage stops, ordered by what it would cost an attacker to exploit, not by what it would cost you to fix.

04 Handover or delivery You take the roadmap to your own team, or we deliver it — your choice, and we say so up front.

SIEM Consulting

Security Information and Event Management · SIEM

Centralise log collection and correlation so security-relevant activity across your estate is visible in one place, with detections mapped to MITRE ATT&CK®.

Centralised activity environment

Behaviour-based threat identification

Risk and severity scoring for prioritisation

A logging programme has four parts, and most organisations build them in the wrong order — buying a detection tool first and working backwards to policy.

ASD's joint guidance with CISA, the FBI and the NSA sets out the sequence: an enterprise-approved logging policy that defines what is captured and why; centralised collection and correlation; secure storage with log integrity protections, so an attacker cannot quietly edit or delete the evidence; and a detection strategy aimed at the threats that actually apply to you.

Doing it in that order is cheaper, and it is what the guidance recommends. That is the engagement.

Network Security Monitoring

Network Security Monitoring · NSM

Continuous inspection of network traffic to surface command-and-control, lateral movement and exfiltration that endpoint controls alone will miss.

East-west and north-south visibility

Protocol and metadata analysis

Threat intelligence enrichment

A firewall enforces policy at a boundary. Network security monitoring observes behaviour across the network and asks a different question: given that something is already inside, what is it doing?

Three MITRE ATT&CK® tactics are largely network-observable and largely invisible to endpoint controls alone — Command and Control (TA0011), Lateral Movement (TA0008) and Exfiltration (TA0010). An adversary moving between two internal hosts never crosses your perimeter firewall. NSM is how you see that movement.

EDR Assessment

Endpoint Detection and Response · EDR

Assess your endpoint control coverage and response readiness, then close the gaps between the tooling you own and the outcomes you need.

Control coverage assessment

Response playbook development

Detection tuning and validation

Deployment and effectiveness are different things. Detection quality varies enormously between products and, more importantly, between deployments of the same product — depending on which protections are enabled, how exclusions were configured, and whether anyone tuned it after go-live.

MITRE's ATT&CK Evaluations exist for exactly this reason. The Enterprise 2026 round introduced a unified quantitative scoring system measuring alert quality, analyst precision, block timing and false-positive performance, moving past a binary detected / not-detected verdict. If a global evaluation programme needs that much nuance to judge a product, an untested deployment in your environment deserves at least a look.

Essential Eight, SOCI and the Privacy Act: which applies to you

For most Australian organisations the starting point is ASD's Essential Eight — a set of eight mitigation strategies with defined maturity levels, and the framework most often named in Australian tenders and board reporting.

On top of that, obligations depend on what you are. If you hold personal information you are subject to the Privacy Act and the Notifiable Data Breaches scheme. If you operate a critical infrastructure asset, the SOCI Act requires a written Critical Infrastructure Risk Management Program — and the Enhanced CIRMP Rules that commenced 10 June 2026 made those expectations considerably more prescriptive. If your turnover exceeds $3 million, ransomware payment reporting applies to you regardless of sector.

Advisory tells you what to do. Cloud Services does it.

The SIEM, NSM and EDR work above is consulting — assessment, design and roadmap. If you want the detection running as a managed service, that is Cloud Services.

Frequently asked questions

What does a SIEM actually do that our existing tools don't?

A SIEM collects security-relevant events from across your estate — endpoints, servers, network devices, cloud platforms, identity providers — into one place, and correlates them so that activity spanning several systems is recognised as a single story rather than a set of unrelated alerts.

That correlation is the point. ASD's ACSC, together with CISA, the FBI, the NSA and international partners, names "prioritise a centralised log collection and correlation strategy" as one of four core actions in its event logging guidance, precisely because modern intrusions cross system boundaries and are invisible to any single tool watching its own slice.

What should we actually be logging?

ASD's joint guidance sets out four things to get right: an enterprise-approved logging policy that defines what is captured and why; centralised collection and correlation; secure storage with log integrity protections so an attacker cannot quietly edit or delete the evidence; and a detection strategy aimed at the threats that actually apply to you.

The order matters. Most organisations start by buying a detection tool and work backwards to policy. Doing it the other way round is cheaper, and it is what the guidance recommends.

Our firewall already inspects traffic. Why do we need network security monitoring?

A firewall enforces policy at a boundary. Network security monitoring observes behaviour across the network and asks a different question: given that something is already inside, what is it doing?

We already have EDR deployed. Why would we need an EDR assessment?

Because deployment and effectiveness are different things. Detection quality varies enormously between products and, more importantly, between deployments of the same product — depending on which protections are enabled, how exclusions were configured, and whether anyone tuned it after go-live.

MITRE's ATT&CK Evaluations exist for exactly this reason. The Enterprise 2026 round introduced a unified quantitative scoring system that measures alert quality, analyst precision, block timing and false-positive performance — moving past a binary "detected / not detected" verdict. If a global evaluation programme needs that much nuance to judge a product, an untested deployment in your environment deserves at least a look.

What is "living off the land", and why does it change what we log?

Living off the land means an attacker uses the tools already present on your systems — PowerShell, WMI, certutil, legitimate administrative binaries — instead of dropping malware. Nothing malicious is installed, so nothing malicious is detected.

ASD's event logging guidance names the growing prevalence of these techniques, including fileless malware, as a primary reason organisations need a deliberate logging programme. You cannot detect the misuse of a legitimate tool without a record of how that tool is normally used.

How do we know whether our detection coverage is good enough?

By mapping it. MITRE ATT&CK® is a public knowledge base of adversary behaviour — as of v19, released 28 April 2026, it catalogues 15 tactics, 222 techniques and 475 sub-techniques for enterprise environments. Mapping your detections to that structure turns "we have a SIEM" into "here is what we would catch and here is what we would not".

One caveat worth knowing: v19 restructured the framework, splitting the former Defense Evasion tactic into Stealth and Defense Impairment. Any coverage map built before April 2026 needs re-baselining against the current version.

Which frameworks should drive our security roadmap in Australia?

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