Hobart antarctic logistics organisations face ransomware, identity-driven attacks and supply chain compromise. Basalt's ai governance & risk practice tests against that real threat profile, not a generic Australia-wide playbook. AI governance that engineering teams will actually use — model and dataset inventory, risk tiering, red-team requirements per tier, and approval workflows that do not become the AI bottleneck. Mapped to NIST AI RMF and ISO/IEC 42001 where it matters.
The antarctic logistics, tourism concentration around Hobart sees ransomware, identity-driven attacks and supply chain compromise. Our ai governance & risk work in TAS is scoped against this real threat profile, not a generic checklist.
Every finding ships with a control reference against ASD Essential Eight and SOCI Act, with ACSC guidance cited where it changes the remediation priority. Board reporting follows the APRA CPS 234 expectation set.
Basalt delivers ai governance & risk to organisations across Hobart and the wider TAS region (population ~250k). The antarctic logistics, tourism sectors that anchor the region face a distinct threat profile — ransomware, identity-driven attacks and supply chain compromise — and our engagements are scoped to that, not a generic playbook. Reporting maps cleanly to the ASD Essential Eight and SOCI Act that Australian boards already use, with regulator context (ACSC) called out where it changes a remediation priority.
Basalt's Hobart practice has been working antarctic logistics threat profiles long enough to know which controls actually move the dial — and which line items quietly waste budget. We bring that pattern recognition in week one.
Findings ship with control references against ASD Essential Eight and SOCI Act and remediation guidance written for the team that has to action it. Your board, your auditor, and your on-call engineer all get something they can use.
Basalt doesn't resell tooling. Australian antarctic logistics clients get an independent read on what's working, what isn't, and what's costing more than it should — not a thinly-veiled sales pipeline.
Cyber security in Australia can't be done with last year's threat models. The Basalt practice runs against current attacker tradecraft — agentic AI abuse, MCP and AI-tool supply chain, post-quantum readiness — alongside the legacy infrastructure work that still keeps most organisations awake at night.
Most Hobart engagements scope inside one week and start within two. Retainer clients can trigger work the same day. We do not pipeline Australian clients through junior teams — a senior consultant scopes and runs the work end-to-end.
Both. Sensitive work — classified-adjacent environments, live incident response, OT walkthroughs — gets on-site time in Hobart and the wider TAS region. Routine assessments and detection engineering run remote with a tight feedback loop.
Every finding ships with a control reference against the ASD Essential Eight and SOCI Act so your compliance team is not re-mapping our report. Where ACSC guidance exists for the specific finding, we cite it inline. Board-level reporting follows the APRA CPS 234 expectation set.
The antarctic logistics sector concentration in Hobart drives a different threat model than a generic Australian engagement — ransomware, identity-driven attacks and supply chain compromise. Our scoping reflects that, and so does the test library we bring to the work.
Yes — this is core to how we work. Basalt actively researches and tests against agentic AI tool-abuse and indirect prompt injection at scale, MCP server and AI-tool supply chain compromise and identity-first attack chains across federated SaaS. Most regional providers haven't mapped these attack paths; we run them in production against client systems with explicit scope.
Strategic cyber security consulting
Adversarial testing for LLMs and AI systems
CREST-aligned penetration testing
Source code review and SAST/DAST integration