Cyber Defence and Cyber Resilience Anticipate pitfalls and recover quickly A cyberattack can be devastating. The actions you take during the first 48 hours of a cybersecurity incident response can be critical to a successful outcome. In Australia, regulatory bodies such as the Australian Cyber Security Centre (ACSC) and frameworks like the Essential Eight, SOCI and PSPF emphasise the importance of a timely and effective incident response.These are complex cybersecurity incidents requiring specialised skills, tools, and knowledge. The most common scenarios you could face range from an uncertain response to handling security incidents and related outages to unseen threat actors bypassing traditional defences and detections.Rigid cybersecurity incident response programs unable to counter dynamic threats and lack of business continuity and/or resiliency strategies, documentation, and response plans are also concerns.Whether you need help in preparation and planning, retaining direct assistance or simply need to raise your response readiness profile, Protiviti Australia offers end-to-end cyber defence and cyber resilience services teams with expertise to match your technology, industry and situation. Blogs July 25, 2025 18 min read Navigating Australia's Cybersecurity Obligations: SOCI, PSPF and the Essential Eight – A Strategic Guide for Government and Critical Infrastructure Organisations As Australia confronts an evolving and intensifying cyber threat landscape, public and private sector entities are under increasing pressure to fortify their cyber resilience. Central to this effort are three frameworks that define the country's cybersecurity foundation: the Security of Critical Infrastructure (SOCI) Act, the Protective Security Policy Framework (PSPF... Read more Our cyber defence and cyber resilience services Our cyber defence and cyber resilience solutions: Pro Briefcase Strategy and planning Develop a long-term cyber defence strategy to guide your organisation in the event of a cybersecurity incident. Our cybersecurity incident response plans are resilient, adaptable and compliant with the Australian and global regulatory frameworks such as the SOCI Act, PSPF, ISM, Essential Eight, ISO 27001, NIST and CSF. Pro Building office Tabletop exercises Whether you are rolling out an incident response process, stress-testing an existing process or a cyber defence strategy, or refreshing your team on the latest updates, we facilitate interactive sessions to test your cyber resilience response processes against documented plans with the relevant stakeholders. Pro Document Consent Emergency breach response No matter how much you invest in security, incidents happen. Our on-call cybersecurity incident response team in Australia helps minimise the impact on your business. Pro Document Files Ransomware advisory and recovery Anticipate and map the threat landscape, react to a motivated and cunning adversary, and recover and adapt to maintain a resilient business model. Pro Document Stack Compromise assessments Clarify potential threats, examine your network for compromise indicators, and guide responses if malicious activity is detected. Pro Legal Briefcase Cyber threat intelligence Access the dark and clear webs and conduct in-depth research and analysis to better understand threat actors and cybercrime and ransomware groups while also identifying potentially leaked credentials. Pro Workflow Flowchart Post-event review and facilitated lessons learned After an incident, recovery mode begins. Identify and address an incident’s root cause, evaluate response procedures for future incidents, strengthen your future readiness by aligning with the Australian Cyber Security Centre (ACSC) guidelines, and reinstate protection confidence. We help clients prepare to perform the most-needed tasks Our cyber defence and cyber resilience approach Our cyber defence approach is built on three pillars, includingCrisis management: Supporting leadership through cyber disruption with clear communication and governance.Implementation without overload: Efficient preparation and response plans that are scalable and sustainable.Enabling technical responders: Ensuring your most skilled technical staff stay focused on what they do best during incidents.We help organisations in Australia prepare to perform the most-needed tasks during a cybersecurity incident for a faster response, minimal impact, and stronger long-term cyber and operational resilience. We help clients prepare to perform the most-needed tasks Believe in proactive responses to security events Our emergency response on-call services If you believe you have an ongoing or potential cybersecurity incident, contact our Australia-based on-call incident response team at [email protected].Our cybersecurity incident response experts are always ready to help you plan and manage global incident response. We believe in proactive responses to security events. Protiviti experts are steeped in response execution, forensic analysis, and response plan development. Featured insights INSIGHTS PAPER Collaborative Security for Medical Devices – Best Practices for Device Manufacturers and Healthcare Delivery Organisations 9 min read The proliferation of connected medical devices continues to introduce new cybersecurity risks that could impact patient safety and the security and privacy of patient data. To address these challenges, it is imperative that medical device... 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Previous Article Pagination Next Article Client Story September 24, 2024 7 min read Enhancing Cyber Resilience Strategies in Global Manufacturing with the FAIR Methodology Protiviti helps a global manufacturer enhance cyber resilience strategies with a Factor Analysis of Information Risk (FAIR) quantification programme. Read more Leadership Hirun Tantirigama Hirun is a managing director and Protiviti Australia's technology consulting lead with 18 years’ experience in providing risk and regulatory advisory services across a variety of clients and industries. He has led complex, transformational programs across areas such as ... Learn More Krishnan Venkatraman Krishnan is a director with over 14 years’ experience in professional services. He has specific expertise in technology risk consulting and has been advising clients both in the public and private sector in designing and implementing information security controls.Major ... Learn More Chandrakant Kamble Chandrakant is an Associate Director in Protiviti Australia’s technology consulting practice with almost 20 years of experience focusing on cybersecurity and privacy. Chandrakant has significant knowledge in undertaking NIST CSF, NSW Cyber Security Policy, ASD’s ... Learn More What is next for CISOs? The CISO Next initiative produces content and events crafted exclusively for CISOs, with CISOs. The resources focus on what CISOs need to succeed. The first step is finding out “What CISO type are you?” Get Involved Crisis averted A medical device manufacturing company proactively partnered with Protiviti to pinpoint a hole in their technology, avoiding a publicity nightmare. Case studies Protiviti helps large bank demonstrate cyber resilience Situation: A financial market infrastructure firm was required to enhance its cyber resilience and undertake a self-assessment to identify and prioritise areas for improvement.Value: Protiviti supported the execution of a compliance assessment of the client’s cyber resilience framework, assisted and educated information security and management staff, and recommended ways to improve governance processes and a refined approach to the self-assessment with key stakeholders. Protiviti helps large university develop and execute incident response exercise Situation: A large private university with more than 1,000 faculty and 13,000 students sought a third-party partner to develop and execute a tabletop exercise to test the school’s responsive capabilities under various stress scenarios.Value: Protiviti’s detailed exercise package gave the university greater insight into its system availability threats and sensitive data risks while increasing its capabilities to detect, respond to and mitigate incidents. Protiviti implements fraud and computer security controls for client Situation: A real estate management and global financial investment firm felt vulnerable to internal fraud and computer security. Its corporate internal audit function needed better controls in these areas across all its subsidiary companies.Value: Gained efficiencies by converging fraud and computer security incident response into an overarching framework. Partnered with senior executives to ensure buy-in and acceptance of the business change. Protiviti partners with SIFMA in Quantum Dawn global cybersecurity exercise Situation: The Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association (SIFMA) sought a partner to conduct its fifth Quantum Dawn cyber defence and response tabletop exercise.Value: Protiviti helped raise awareness within the global financial services industry of current information-sharing infrastructure limitations; also determined areas of improvement in sector cyber defence and response efforts.
