DefenderSuite combines continuous threat monitoring, compliance management, and monthly reporting into a single managed plan — built for Australian businesses navigating the Essential Eight, DISP, PSPF, Government Contracts and cyber insurance requirements.
Documented Essential Eight controls are the primary factor in lower cyber insurance premiums.
Most government suppliers are required to maintain at a minimum Essential Eight Maturity Level 2.
The equivalent of three or more years of full DefenderSuite monitoring, protection and monthly reporting.
Every DefenderSuite Plan includes five integrated pillars that deliver consistent protection and compliance support. Together, they form a structured foundation that strengthens security maturity and helps your business meet evolving standards with confidence.
Strengthen your business's core defences with managed cybersecurity services that protect endpoints, email, and networks.
Advance your security posture with Essential Eight implementation, incident response playbooks, and vCISO guidance.
Secure cloud controls including data loss prevention, policy enforcement, and protection across email, Teams, and SharePoint.
Strengthen governance frameworks with managed compliance services that keep your business secure, aligned, and audit-ready.
Demonstrate proven security maturity with compliance reporting, disaster recovery validation, and evidence recognised by insurers.
From foundational defences to enterprise-grade compliance, each DefenderSuite plan scales with your business.
Security environments aligned to defined maturity levels with progression built in
Environments onboarded, hardened, and security controls deployed within weeks
Application control, patching, MFA, and privilege management implemented
Security posture hardened to improve Microsoft Secure Score
Security controls aligned to government cybersecurity expectations and standards
Clear reporting to track security posture and compliance maturity
Security environments aligned to defined maturity levels with progression built in
Environments onboarded, hardened, and security controls deployed within weeks
Application control, patching, MFA, and privilege management implemented
Security posture hardened to improve Microsoft Secure Score
Security controls aligned to government cybersecurity expectations and standards
Clear reporting to track security posture and compliance maturity
Security environments aligned to defined maturity levels with progression built in
Environments onboarded, hardened, and security controls deployed within weeks
Application control, patching, MFA, and privilege management implemented
Security posture hardened to improve Microsoft Secure Score
Clear reporting to track security posture and compliance maturity
Clear reporting to track security posture and compliance maturity
Security environments aligned to defined maturity levels with progression built in
Environments onboarded, hardened, and security controls deployed within weeks
Application control, patching, MFA, and privilege management implemented
Security posture hardened to improve Microsoft Secure Score
Security controls aligned to government cybersecurity expectations and standards
Clear reporting to track security posture and compliance maturity
Security environments aligned to defined maturity levels with progression built in
Environments onboarded, hardened, and security controls deployed within weeks
Application control, patching, MFA, and privilege management implemented
Security posture hardened to improve Microsoft Secure Score
Security controls aligned to government cybersecurity expectations and standards
Clear reporting to track security posture and compliance maturity
Security environments aligned to defined maturity levels with progression built in
Environments onboarded, hardened, and security controls deployed within weeks
Application control, patching, MFA, and privilege management implemented
Security posture hardened to improve Microsoft Secure Score
Clear reporting to track security posture and compliance maturity
Clear reporting to track security posture and compliance maturity
Others charge up to $15,000 for a standalone audit.
Get started with your Essential Eight audit free — included on a 12-month DefenderSuite plan.
No upfront assessment fee or separate remediation engagement.
One subscription delivers all three managed steps.
Step 01
Starting out
Your environment reviewed against all 8 ASD controls with a prioritised remediation roadmap delivered within days of engaging with us.
Every assessment is aligned to the ACSC methodology and ASD Essential Eight framework — giving you a maturity score that holds up to government, insurer and board scrutiny.
STep 02
Achieve compliance
Cybersecurity controls, Microsoft 365 security, identity management, and compliance frameworks deployed across your environment from day one.
DefenderSuite deploys and completely manages the security controls required to reach your target maturity level. Most businesses reach Essential Eight Level 2 within 4–12 weeks.
step 03
Staying compliant
Cybersecurity controls managed across your environment, monitored continuously and evidenced every month — at no extra cost.
Monthly compliance reports formatted for board reporting, government contract requirements and cyber insurance applications — ready to share the moment they're needed.
Foundational
Cybersecurity & Compliance
Small to Medium Businesses
Plan Inclusions
Fundamental Controls Plus
Advanced
Cybersecurity & Compliance
Small to Medium Businesses
Plan Inclusions
Everything DefenderBasic Plus
Complete
Cybersecurity & Compliance
Medium to Large Businesses
Plan Inclusions
Everything DefenderCore Plus
Comprehensive
Cybersecurity & Compliance
Regulated Industries & Enterprises
Plan Inclusions
Everything DefenderPro Plus
For SMBs and enterprises managing sensitive client data, regulated workloads, or complex supply chains, DefenderSuite delivers the visibility, assurance, and compliance alignment to stay secure and audit-ready.
Built for businesses operating in regulated environments where governance, assurance, and control alignment are essential.
Built for businesses where client trust, data integrity, and uninterrupted service delivery are critical to success.
Built for businesses where system uptime, collaboration, and delivery reliability are essential to performance.
As a CA registered practice and registered tax agent, our obligations to the ATO and our professional body are significant. The data we handle sits at the intersection of some of Australia's strictest regulatory requirements. DefenderPro gave us the compliance framework to meet those obligations digitally with the same seriousness we apply to every other aspect of our practice.
As we've expanded our on-demand ordering and digital presence, the volume of client and financial data moving through our systems has grown significantly. We needed our security to keep pace with that growth. DefenderSuite gave us the framework to scale confidently, knowing that side of the business is handled properly as we continue to grow.
Our team's focus belongs on the people in our care, not on managing IT security. Knowing that side of the business is handled properly, and that we can demonstrate it when partners or regulators ask, has made a real difference to how we operate. It's one less thing to carry, and that matters in an industry where your attention should never be divided.
Running FIFO and regional projects means our people, devices and data are constantly moving across some of WA's most remote sites. We needed to know our systems were secure regardless of where the work took us. DefenderPro handles that without us having to think about it, and the peace of mind that comes with that is worth more than we expected.
DefenderPro raised the standard of how we demonstrate our professional obligations. The clients who come to Equiti do so because they trust us with their financial affairs completely, and maintaining that trust means holding ourselves to the highest standard across everything we do. DefenderPro gave us the compliance framework, the controls and the audit-ready reporting to reflect that standard clearly.
Operating under the NDIS and Aged Care frameworks means our compliance obligations are significant, and data protection is a core part of that. We hold sensitive information for hundreds of clients, many of them elderly or living with disability. DefenderPro gave us Essential Eight Level 2 compliance, 24/7 managed protection, and monthly reporting we can take to our board and regulators with confidence.
