Senior security leadership on a retainer — so the gains hold and keep compounding.
A tiered partnership that gives you a named, accountable security leader: quarterly roadmap, board reporting, vendor and Microsoft posture reviews, risk register, incident planning and annual testing — without a full-time CISO salary.
- 10+ years across IT, cloud & cyber
- Enterprise & government experience
- Principal consultant-led delivery
- Independent & Australian-owned
- Melbourne-based · Australia-wide
You walk away with
- A named, accountable senior security leader
- Quarterly roadmap ownership and board reporting
- Vendor, MSP and Microsoft posture reviews
- Maintained risk register and incident response plan
Is this you?
You're probably here because…
If one of these is true, this may be the right starting engagement — with senior attention.
You need security leadership but can't justify a full-time CISO salary.
Assessments keep producing roadmaps that nobody owns or drives.
Your board wants regular, credible security reporting.
A contract or regulator requires a named, accountable security lead.
What you get
Executive-ready deliverables, in business language
Everything is prioritised and written to be acted on, with indicative effort, dependencies and cost ranges where supportable.
- A named, accountable senior security leader
- Quarterly roadmap ownership and board reporting
- Vendor, MSP and Microsoft posture reviews
- Maintained risk register and incident response plan
- Tender and client-questionnaire assistance (higher tiers)
- Annual penetration-testing allowance (Premium; scope, authorisation & insurance apply)
Productised package
CyberByte Security Partnership
A tiered Security Partnership — Foundation, Core and Premium — from $3,000/mo. Fractional security leadership, board reporting and ongoing assurance.
$3,000/mo
from · ex GST
Ongoing · 12-month initial term
typical timeline
Choose your tier
A partnership that scales with you
Start where you are and move up as you grow. Tiered on value and senior time.
Foundation
$3,000/mo
Advisory, reporting and a living risk register for organisations getting started.
- Up to 4 advisory hours/month, Australian business hours
- Acknowledgement within 2 business days
- Maintained risk register
- Quarterly board reporting
- Annual roadmap review
Core
$5,500/mo
The working partnership: leadership, reviews and Microsoft posture monitoring.
- Everything in Foundation
- Up to 1 business day (8 hours) advisory/month
- Acknowledgement within 1 business day
- Quarterly security roadmap ownership
- Vendor & third-party reviews
- Microsoft posture monitoring
- Incident response planning
Premium
$8,500/mo
Expanded security leadership with annual testing and tender support.
- Everything in Core
- Up to 2 business days (16 hours) advisory/month
- Acknowledgement within 1 business day
- Tender & client-questionnaire assistance
- Annual penetration-testing allowance (scope, authorisation & insurance apply)
- More senior leadership days
- Priority response
Security Partnership tiers: 12-month initial term, billed monthly in advance, then month-to-month with 30 days' written notice.
How it works
A clear, documented method
Every engagement starts with written authorisation and a defined scope. Here's the path from start to deliverable.
- 01
Establish
Baseline your posture, priorities and obligations, and agree the tier, cadence and reporting that suits your board.
- 02
Lead
Own the roadmap, drive remediation, oversee vendors and Microsoft posture, and make the senior calls as they arise.
- 03
Report
Regular board reporting — risk, progress and decisions needed — so leadership stays informed and accountable.
- 04
Sustain
Ongoing improvement: priorities revisited each quarter and progress measured against the roadmap as the business changes.
Service terms
Clear terms, inclusions and boundaries
What's included, how it's billed, and what this service is — and isn't.
Availability & response
- Business hours: Monday–Friday, 9:00am–5:00pm Melbourne time, excluding Victorian public holidays.
- Acknowledgement targets (not resolution guarantees): Foundation within 2 business days · Core and Premium within 1 business day.
- Included senior-advisory allocation per month: Foundation up to 4 hours · Core up to 1 business day (8 hours) · Premium up to 2 business days (16 hours).
- Meetings, reviews, reporting and advisory activities count toward the allocation. Unused time does not roll over.
Terms & boundaries
- 12-month initial agreement, billed monthly in advance; thereafter month-to-month with 30 days’ written notice.
- Additional projects are separately scoped and fixed-priced.
- Not a 24/7 SOC, managed detection (MDR) service or emergency incident-response retainer. Emergency assistance is best-effort, subject to availability, authorisation and separate terms.
- Premium penetration testing is an annual allowance, subject to separately agreed scope, written testing authorisation and confirmation of applicable insurance coverage.
Why CyberByte Security
Principal consultant-led delivery, backed by 10+ years across IT, cloud & cyber and enterprise & government experience.
FAQ
Questions buyers ask
Still unsure? A scoping call answers the rest in 20 minutes.
Fractional security leadership plus the operating cadence around it — roadmap ownership, risk register, vendor and Microsoft posture reviews, incident planning, tender help and (at Premium) annual testing, packaged into one tiered relationship. Leadership plus the cadence that makes it stick.
Core suits organisations that need roadmap ownership, vendor reviews and Microsoft posture monitoring. Essentials suits smaller organisations getting started; Premium suits those with tender or testing needs. You can move between tiers as you grow.
You work directly with a senior advisor — the same person who runs the engagement, so there's continuity from scoping to delivery.
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