A cyber security audit for Brisbane organisations, from auditors who don’t sell the fix
Most cyber security reviews in Brisbane are run by firms that also sell managed security, licences or remediation. Beyond Technology has an office in the Brisbane CBD and sells none of those. We tell you where your security stands and what to fix first.
- Essential Eight maturity, Microsoft 365, identity, backups and response readiness
- Evidence a board, insurer or client questionnaire will accept
- Recommendations sized to your budget, not to a product list
Independent and vendor neutral. The advice is the product; nothing else is for sale.
Book a free scoping call
Tell us what prompted the audit. A senior consultant will come back to you to scope it. No obligation.
Our Brisbane office is in the CBD. On-site time in South East Queensland costs nothing extra.
The risk most Brisbane organisations underestimate sits with their suppliers
In its report Managing third-party cyber security risks (Report 13: 2025–26), the Queensland Audit Office found that the entities it audited were not effectively managing the cyber risk that comes through their suppliers, and that one department had lost more than $800,000 to an external attack. The pattern is just as common outside government. A managed service provider with administrator access to every system is part of your attack surface, whatever the contract says.
Brisbane organisations also feel the pressure from the other side. Firms supplying government, health and large infrastructure projects are asked to evidence their own controls in tender responses and supplier questionnaires, often against the Essential Eight. A self-assessment written by the provider that runs the controls carries little weight with the buyer.
A cyber security audit from a firm with no stake in the remediation addresses both. It assesses your controls and your providers against a stated benchmark, and gives you evidence you can put in front of a board, a buyer or an insurer. We have an office in the Brisbane CBD, so the interviews and the board briefing happen in person.
Who commissions cyber security audits here
Suppliers to government, health and infrastructure projects facing security questionnaires. Health, aged care and community providers holding sensitive personal information across several sites. Professional services firms whose clients, insurers or boards want evidence rather than assurances.
How we work with Brisbane organisations
An audit starts with a scoping conversation in our Brisbane office, at yours or by video, and the benchmark is agreed in writing before work begins. Read the full scope and method on our cyber security audit page.
Most cyber security advice comes from someone selling the fix
In Queensland the common gap sits with suppliers: providers holding administrator access that nobody has assessed. The people who tell you about your security risk are usually the people paid to remediate it: your managed service provider, a security vendor, a reseller with a licence to renew. An independent audit removes that filter.
The board asks “are we secure?” and gets a product list
Every answer arrives attached to a quote. Nobody in the room can say whether the spend already made is working, let alone whether the next one is needed.
We assess your posture against a stated benchmark and tell you what the evidence shows, with no product to steer you toward.
Your security assurance comes from the people being assured
The provider that configures your Microsoft 365 tenancy is the one reporting on whether it is configured well. That is marking your own homework.
We audit the controls and the provider as a third party, and we say plainly where the gap is a configuration, a process, or a person.
A regulator, insurer or client is asking questions you cannot answer
Privacy Act obligations, APRA expectations, a client security questionnaire, a cyber insurance renewal. The questions are specific; the internal answers are not.
The audit gives you a defensible, evidenced position you can put in front of whoever is asking, and a prioritised plan for what to close first.
Not ready to talk? Start with the scoping checklist
Our IT audit scoping checklist covers twenty questions across cost, risk, alignment, people and governance. Security is one of the five areas, and any question you cannot answer with confidence belongs in your audit scope. Use it internally, or bring it to a consultation.
Prefer it walked through? Book a call with a consultant.
The IT Audit Scoping Checklist
- Who audits your external IT provider?
- Has data recovery actually been tested?
- Do staff know what to do when something looks wrong?
- Can you evidence your controls to a regulator or insurer?
- Plus 16 more, across five areas
What a cyber security audit looks at
The scope is agreed before we start. Most audits cover some mix of these four areas.
Essential Eight maturity
An evidenced rating against the ASD Essential Eight, control by control, and what ASD’s planned move to its Essentials series means for you.
Microsoft 365 and identity
Tenancy configuration, multi-factor authentication, privileged access and the accounts nobody switched off.
Backups and response readiness
Whether the backups would restore, whether the response plan has been tested, and who decides what in the first hour.
People, AI and third parties
Staff awareness, staff use of generative AI tools, and the providers that hold your data or your administrator access.
The full scope and method are on our cyber security audit page, and we also run a dedicated Essential Eight audit. For cost, providers and the wider IT function, see IT audits in Brisbane.
Where a cyber security audit in Brisbane usually starts
First
List every provider with access to your systems or data, and the level of access each one holds.
Second
Rate your controls against the Essential Eight with evidence, starting with multi-factor authentication, privileged access and backups.
Third
Take the last supplier questionnaire or tender security schedule you answered and test whether every answer can be evidenced.
What executives say after working with us
Reading your report produced without conflict-of-interest, I clearly understand how biased previous technology advice had been
CEO, not-for-profit organisation
After you identified the root cause of our difficulties we have never looked back
CFO, financial services industry
I was astounded to see how reprioritising our IT could deliver such a material improvement in business outcomes
MD, large field services organisation
An auditor who sells the remediation is not an auditor
Cyber security is the most conflicted corner of technology advice. The firm that finds the gap is usually the firm that quotes to close it, so the gap has a way of being exactly the size of their product. Beyond Technology maintains absolute independence from every vendor and technology. We do not sell, resell or implement anything. What you get is Actionable Advice: accurate, accessible findings that fit your organisation, do not need a technical qualification to understand, and do not assume a bigger budget than you have.
Frequently asked questions
Do you have an office in Brisbane?
Yes. Beyond Technology has an office in the Brisbane CBD, alongside our Sydney head office and an office in Perth. On-site work across South East Queensland is part of the engagement, not an extra.
Can the audit help us answer a tender security questionnaire?
Yes. The audit gives you an evidenced position against the benchmark the buyer is asking about, usually the Essential Eight, and a list of the gaps to close. We do not fill in the questionnaire for you, but every answer you give afterwards rests on evidence.
Is this a penetration test?
No. A penetration test tries to break in through a defined set of systems on a given day. An audit assesses whether your controls, practices and readiness fit the risk you carry. Many organisations need both, and the audit tells you whether a penetration test is the right next spend.
Will you try to sell us the remediation?
No. We have no products, no reseller margins and no implementation arm. The findings are the product, and your team or your existing provider can act on them.
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Talk to us about a cyber security audit in Brisbane
A board question, an insurance renewal, a client questionnaire, a provider you want assurance over, or a feeling that nobody has looked properly for a while. We will come back with a scope and a clear proposal. A short conversation with a consultant, not a sales call. We can meet in our Brisbane CBD office, at your site, or by video.
Prefer to talk now? Call 1300 469 909