We find the
gaps before
criminals do.
We've cleaned up after 100+ ransomware, BEC and cloud incidents. We know where Australian SMEs get caught. We find those gaps while there's still time to fix them, for a fraction of what recovery costs.
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The gaps we find
Five failures
behind almost every
breach we've seen.
Ransomware, BEC, cloud takeovers. Different attackers, different industries, the same five gaps underneath. These are what we check first because they're what we find most.
The five gaps
Ranked by how often they were the primary or contributing cause of an incident we responded to.
MFA gaps on privileged accounts
Legacy auth, break-glass accounts, or service identities without MFA. The single most common root cause.
Misconfigured edge devices & firewalls
Management interfaces, VPN portals and internal services exposed to the public internet. Often the initial foothold.
Over-privileged M365 tenants
Global Admin shared across staff. No conditional access. Guest users with standing access to finance data.
Backups that fail the restore test
Backups exist but are not tested, are not immutable, or live on the domain ransomware just encrypted.
Unmanaged vendor access
IT providers, SaaS connectors and former contractors still holding keys. No one tracks the list.
Source: Cubit Cyber incident response engagements, 2022 to 2026. Percentages reflect incidents where the listed gap was a primary or contributing cause.
Services
Start where you are.
Most of our clients arrive asking one of three questions. Find yours below. We'll meet you there. Fixed scope, fixed price, plain-English report at the end.
Cyber Security Assessment
The whole picture in three weeks. A full review of identity, cloud, endpoint and data posture, benchmarked against the ACSC Essential Eight, with a prioritised roadmap and a board-ready report.
- Identity, M365, endpoint & network review
- Essential Eight maturity scoring
- Risk-ranked remediation roadmap
- Board-ready report for insurers & RFPs
- Walkthrough with your IT provider
Cloud Security Review
For businesses that run on M365, Azure or Google Workspace with little or nothing on-prem, just staff laptops and SaaS. We review the tenant the way an attacker would.
- Tenant hardening & conditional access audit
- MFA coverage on every privileged identity
- Data-loss, sharing & guest-access posture
- Backup, recovery & retention check
- Laptop & endpoint baseline (Intune / MDM)
vCISO
You get a senior security leader working alongside your exec team, covering strategy, board reporting, vendor decisions and incident response, for a fraction of what a full-time hire costs.
- Onboarding assessment & 12-month security plan
- Monthly strategic cadence with leadership
- Board & executive reporting
- Vendor & tool-stack triage
- Incident advisory when it counts
How an assessment runs
Three weeks.
One clear plan.
No open-ended consulting. No $50K surprises. Every assessment follows the same five-step process we refined over 100+ incident responses.
Kickoff
A 60-minute call. We map your business, your stack, and the clients you’re accountable to. Nothing technical required from you.
Day 1Reconnaissance
Read-only access to M365, cloud and identity. We look where attackers look first. You keep working.
Days 2–5Deep review
Configuration, data flows, backups, privileges, vendor access. Everything cross-referenced against ACSC Essential Eight.
Days 6–12Report
Plain-English findings. Risk-ranked. Prioritised remediation with fix-owner and effort estimate. Ready for your board or your insurer.
Days 13–17Walkthrough
Two-hour session with you and your IT provider. We translate. Everyone leaves knowing what ships next week.
Days 18–21The maths
Prevention is 49× cheaper than recovery.
Every ransomware recovery we've worked on could have been avoided. Usually for less than the cost of a single week of downtime.
Ransomware recovery
Cubit Cyber assessment
Why us
Your IT support
is doing
their job.
Security is
a different job.
IT support keeps your systems running day-to-day. They're not looking for security vulnerabilities. That's not what you hired them for. We do one thing: find the gaps that attackers exploit, before they exploit them.
Not the Big 4
Same rigour. Practitioners who've responded to 100+ real incidents, not graduates following a checklist. A fraction of the cost, with no brand premium priced in.
Not a vendor
We don't sell products or earn commissions on anything we recommend. Our only interest is an accurate picture of where you stand.
Who we work with
Australian SMEs
with something
worth stealing.
Serving SMEs across Brisbane, the Gold Coast, and regional Queensland.
10 to 200 employees. Too much to lose to ignore security. Too lean for a full-time security team.
Accounting
You hold sensitive financial data clients trust you with. A single BEC scam or ransomware attack destroys that trust overnight.
Legal
Client privilege is everything. A breach or business email compromise can end a firm's reputation faster than any lawsuit.
Healthcare
Patient data is the most valuable target for criminals, and a notifiable breach triggers mandatory OAIC reporting and the reputational fallout that comes with it.
Mining & Resources
Operational disruption in your sector costs millions per day. That's exactly why ransomware groups target mining and resources. The pressure to pay is enormous.
Professional Services
Enterprise clients now ask for evidence of security controls before signing contracts. We give you something credible to show them.
Not in this list? If you handle sensitive client data and have 10+ employees, we should talk.
Stay sharp
Practical security tips, monthly.
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Find your gaps
before someone else does.
Book a free 15-minute call. We'll walk your environment together and tell you, straight, whether an assessment is worth it for you.