We plan your IT We protect it We keep it performing
Next Cyber is an Australian managed IT and cyber security partner. One team runs your service desk, your security operations and your technology roadmap — and answers for all three.
Most breaches are not clever. They are unattended
The incidents that actually take Australian businesses offline are rarely novel. An unpatched server. A mailbox rule nobody noticed. A backup that had been failing quietly for eleven weeks. A contractor's laptop that was never enrolled.
None of that is a technology problem. It is an attention problem — and attention is what gets lost when your IT is split across a break-fix provider, a security vendor, a cloud reseller and whoever set up your phones.
We take the whole thing. One team, one agreement, one accountable point of contact for everything from a stuck printer to a confirmed intrusion.
- Every asset inventoried, patched and reported on — no exceptions list you never see.
- Security controls mapped to the ASD Essential Eight, with monthly evidence.
- Backups restored on a schedule, not trusted on faith.
- One escalation path, staffed in Australian hours and after them.
Nine services. One team. One number to call
Take the lot, or take the parts you are missing. Either way it is the same engineers, the same reporting and the same agreement.
Managed IT
Service desk, monitoring, patching and vendor wrangling. The day-to-day, handled before you notice it.
ExploreCyber security
Hardening, identity, email and web controls, policy and governance. Built to be audited, not just installed.
ExploreDetection & response
24/7 monitoring with humans behind it. Triage, containment and a written account of what happened.
ExploreEssential Eight
Assessment against the ACSC model, a costed uplift plan, and the evidence your board and insurer ask for.
ExploreCloud & Microsoft 365
Migration, licensing that fits, Teams and SharePoint that people use, and tenants configured properly.
ExploreEndpoint & mobility
Intune, Jamf and MDM done by people who have run it at scale. Enrolment to retirement, every device.
ExploreBackup & continuity
Microsoft 365, servers and endpoints backed up offsite — and restored on a schedule so you know it works.
ExploreAdvisory & vCIO
A three-year roadmap, a defensible budget and a quarterly review that a board can read without a translator.
ExploreICT procurement
Sourced at distribution pricing, staged, asset-tagged and enrolled before it reaches the desk.
ExploreWe measure security the way the ACSC does
The Essential Eight is the benchmark Australian regulators, insurers and tender panels actually reference. We assess against it, we report against it, and we tell you what each level costs before you commit.
ML1 Resists commodity attacks ML2 Resists targeted, funded attackers ML3 Resists adaptive, persistent attackers
Illustrative target state for a 240-seat professional services client after a twelve-month uplift. Your baseline assessment reports your real position, strategy by strategy.
24/7
Monitoring, triage and response — including public holidays
15 min
Response target for a Priority 1 incident, written into the agreement
3
Offices — Sydney, Brisbane and Canberra, with engineers on the ground
100%
Australian owned, Australian staffed, data held onshore
Assess. Plan. Protect. Perform
Four stages, in order, because you cannot protect what you have not counted and you cannot budget for what you have not planned.
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Assess
Two weeks. We inventory every asset, identity, licence and control, test your backups, and score you against the Essential Eight. You get a written position — yours to keep, whether or not you engage us.
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Plan
We turn the findings into a costed, sequenced roadmap: what to fix now, what to fund this financial year, what can wait, and what it will cost either way.
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Protect
Transition and uplift. Controls deployed, devices enrolled, identities hardened, documentation written. Run in parallel with your incumbent until the cutover is clean.
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Perform
Steady state. Service desk, monitoring, patching and reporting, with a quarterly review where we show you the numbers and revise the roadmap.
Eighteen industries. The same four failures
We are not a single-vertical specialist. What our clients share is an obligation they cannot delegate — to a regulator, an insurer, a client's risk team, or the people whose records they hold.
- Professional servicesLegal, accounting, advisory and consulting
- Health & allied healthGeneral practice, dental, specialist and clinic
- Aged care & disabilityResidential, home care and NDIS providers
- Construction & tradesBuilders, subcontractors and project managers
- Engineering & architectureCAD, BIM and drawing-heavy practices
- Government & councilsLocal government and agencies with E8 obligations
- Not-for-profit & communityCharities, peak bodies and member organisations
- Education & trainingIndependent schools, RTOs and early learning
- Financial servicesBrokers, planners, funds and insurance
- Manufacturing & industrialProduction floors and the IT/OT boundary
- Transport & logisticsFleet, warehousing and rugged field devices
- Wholesale & distributionERP and EDI links into trading partners
- Retail & hospitalityMulti-site POS, seasonal staff and card obligations
- Real estate & propertyAgencies, strata and property management
- Mining, energy & resourcesRemote sites, contractors and critical infrastructure
- Agriculture & agribusinessRural connectivity and seasonal workforces
- Media, marketing & creativeLarge files and freelancers on short engagements
- Sport, clubs & recreationLicensed venues, member data and volunteer boards
We are vendor-aligned, not vendor-owned. Every recommendation names the alternative we did not pick and says why.
Written for the person who has to make the decision
The Essential Eight, explained without the jargon
What each of the eight controls actually asks of you, what maturity levels mean, and where most organisations stall.
Read ANALYSISMFA is not the finish line
Push fatigue, token theft and adversary-in-the-middle kits. Why your second factor may already be bypassable.
Read BUYER'S GUIDETwelve questions to ask an MSP before you sign
The questions that separate a genuine security practice from a reseller with a monitoring agent.
ReadStart with an assessment, not a contract
Two weeks, a fixed fee, and a written position on your environment. If we are not the right fit, you still keep the report.