Security & software · Est. Australia
Your engagement is led by a principal consultant, not passed to a junior.
AL Cyber Solutions runs on a lead-consultant model backed by a network of technical collaboration partners. One senior owner scopes, leads and delivers your work end to end. Specialists are brought in when the job genuinely calls for it, full-scope red team, in-country compliance, formal certification audits.
- Offensive
- Testing & red team
- Defensive
- Detection & response
- GRC
- Risk & compliance
- Engineering
- Software & platforms
Senior expertise without the agency markup.
Most consultancies win work with a senior name and deliver it with junior staff, that leverage is how the model makes money. This practice is built the other way round.
One accountable owner
The person who scoped your engagement is the person who runs it and signs the report. No handover, no re-explaining your environment to someone new.
A partner network, not a payroll
Specialist partners are engaged for full-scope red team work, in-country requirements and formal certification audits, and named to you before they start.
Honest capacity
Engagements run in sequence rather than in parallel. You get real attention, and you get told the truth about lead times.
Collaboration partners are independent firms engaged per project. "Partner" describes a working relationship, not a legal partnership.
Nine services across security and engineering.
Grouped, not padded. Each one is work the principal consultant delivers directly, with partner support noted where it applies.
Security
01Offensive SecurityAdversarial testing that produces evidence, not a scanner export. Every finding is reproduced by hand, rated for real exploitability in your environment, and retested after you fix it.
- Penetration testing, network, web application, wireless, external and internal
- Vulnerability assessment with manual validation of every finding
- OSINT, digital footprint, exposed credentials and attack-surface mapping
- Social engineering and phishing simulation
- Red team engagements
Full-scope red team exercises are delivered with specialist collaboration partners.
02Defensive SecurityDetection and response built around what your team can realistically operate. Hardening reviewed against vendor baselines and the ACSC Essential Eight, not a generic checklist.
- Security monitoring and threat detection design
- Incident response and digital forensics
- Security hardening and configuration review
- Firewall, endpoint and network security assessment
- Security awareness training for staff
03Governance, Risk & ComplianceRisk work that survives contact with a board paper and an auditor. Registers your executives will actually read, and policies your staff can follow without a workaround.
- Risk assessment and risk register development
- Policy and procedure development
- Compliance gap analysis, Essential Eight, ISO 27001, Privacy Act
- Third-party and vendor risk assessment
- Security audit and control testing
Sector-specific regimes assessed where they apply to you, including HIPAA where a US nexus exists.
04ISO 27001 AdvisoryAn ISMS scoped to your actual risk, not a template with your logo dropped on it. Advisory only, by design: the accreditation rules require your certification auditor to be independent of your consultant.
- Gap analysis against ISO 27001 controls
- ISMS design and implementation guidance
- Internal audit support
- Certification readiness assessment
Formal certification is referred to an accredited certification body. A consultancy cannot audit the ISMS it helped you build, verify the impartiality rules before engaging anyone who offers both.
Engineering
05Custom Web DevelopmentDashboards, client portals, internal tools and full products, built by someone who also does the security review, so authentication and access control are designed in rather than bolted on.
- Operational dashboards and reporting interfaces
- Client and partner portals with role-based access
- Internal tooling to replace spreadsheet processes
- End-to-end product build and handover
06Cross-Platform Mobile & DesktopOne codebase, real native behaviour. Customer-facing apps through to field-team tools that have to work offline in places with no signal.
- iOS and Android applications with React Native
- Desktop applications with Tauri
- Offline-first field and inspection tooling
- App store submission and release management
Platform choice is made per project, Tauri and React Native have different maturity on mobile, and that shapes the recommendation.
07E-Commerce EngineeringStorefronts that hold up during a campaign spike. Headless builds where the catalogue is large enough or the workflow odd enough that a template will fight you.
- Headless commerce architecture and build
- Payment gateway integration and reconciliation
- Inventory and ERP synchronisation
- Performance tuning for high-catalogue and high-traffic stores
08API Design & IntegrationsMaking systems talk that were never designed to. Documented, versioned contracts and integrations that fail loudly instead of silently corrupting your data.
- REST and GraphQL API design and documentation
- CRM, payment provider and logistics integration
- Legacy system integration and staged migration
- Webhook, queue and event pipeline architecture
09Website, Performance & SEO EngineeringSites built to ship almost no JavaScript, measured against Core Web Vitals on mid-tier mobile hardware rather than a fast desktop. Technical SEO as an engineering concern, not a content add-on.
- Astro and React builds with headless CMS
- Core Web Vitals remediation, LCP, CLS and INP
- Technical SEO, structured data, crawlability, indexation
- Accessibility remediation toward WCAG 2.2 AA
How an engagement actually runs.
Four stages, the same every time, so you know what you are buying and when you will have it.
- 01
Discover & Scope
Direct engagement with the lead practitioner. We define target boundaries, clear constraints, and success criteria. Fixed scope and fixed price confirmed in writing before technical work begins.
- 02
Execute & Validate
Hands-on assessment or technical build. Critical vulnerabilities and blocking issues are flagged immediately, not withheld for the deliverable date.
- 03
Remediate & Guide
Actionable findings or deployment plans written for the engineers who execute them. Guidance is prioritized by real-world risk reduction and operational impact rather than raw CVSS metrics.
- 04
Verify & Certify
Retesting and confirmation that remediations hold. You receive clean, audit-ready documentation suitable for leadership, regulators, or external auditors.
Regulated, records-heavy, and under-resourced.
The organisations that carry real obligations without a security team to match. Sector context shapes the scope, a land council and a dental clinic do not have the same risk.
Councils & Government
State, city, regional and land councils, including critical-infrastructure obligations where they apply.
Aboriginal & First Nations Organisations
Engagements run with respect for Indigenous data sovereignty and community governance requirements.
Healthcare & Medical Practices
Medical centres, clinics and general practitioners handling health records under the Privacy Act.
NDIS & Community Services
Aged care, disability, youth and mental health providers with participant data obligations.
Legal & Accounting
Law firms and accounting practices under professional confidentiality and client-data duties.
Real Estate
Agencies holding identity documents, trust account details and tenancy records.
SME & SMB
Organisations with real risk and no in-house security team to carry it.
Enterprise
Larger environments needing senior specialist capability for a defined engagement.
Remote engagements are delivered directly. Work requiring an onsite or in-country presence is delivered with collaboration partners in that jurisdiction.
What we refer out, and why.
Naming the boundary is part of the service. Work outside it is referred rather than stretched to fit.
Red-Core Technology
Managed IT & ongoing support
Day-to-day IT operations, helpdesk and ongoing technology support are a different discipline with different economics. Clients needing them are referred to Red-Core Technology rather than sold a compromise.
Accredited certification bodies
ISO 27001 certification audit
Certification must be performed by a body independent of the consultancy that built your ISMS. We take you to readiness, then hand you to an accredited body for the audit itself.
The things buyers actually ask.
Who actually does the work?
The principal consultant scopes and leads every engagement. You deal with that person directly from the first conversation through to the retest, the work is not handed to a junior once the contract is signed. Where a job needs capability beyond one person, such as a full-scope red team or an in-country compliance requirement, specialist collaboration partners are brought in and named to you up front.
Can you certify us against ISO 27001?
No, and neither can any other consultancy that helped build your ISMS. Certification must come from an accredited certification body that is independent of your advisor. We do the gap analysis, ISMS design, internal audit support and readiness assessment, then refer you to an accredited body for the certification audit. Treat any firm offering to both build and certify your ISMS as a red flag.
How is a lead-consultant model different from an agency?
Most agencies win the work with a senior consultant and deliver it with junior staff, because that margin is how the model works. Here the person who scoped the engagement is the person who runs it. The trade-off is honest: capacity is finite, so engagements are booked in sequence rather than run in parallel.
Do you work outside Australia?
Yes, across Oceania, Asia, Europe and North America. Remote testing is delivered directly. Work with an in-country requirement, such as onsite physical testing or a local regulatory sign-off, is delivered with collaboration partners in that jurisdiction.
Do you provide ongoing managed IT support?
No. That is a different discipline with different economics, and pretending otherwise serves nobody. Managed IT and ongoing technology support are referred to our partner Red-Core Technology.
What do you need from us to quote?
For testing: a rough asset count, whether it is external, internal or both, and any compliance deadline you are working toward. For a build: the problem you are solving and any systems it has to integrate with. A scoping call is usually enough to produce a fixed-price proposal.
Tell us what needs testing, or what needs building.
A scoping call is usually enough to produce a fixed-price proposal with stated exclusions. You will be speaking to the consultant who would run the work, not an account manager.