Built for government
Basalt's Wellington practice has been working government 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.
Wellington, New Zealand
AI Red Teaming in Wellington.
If your government business sits in Wellington, the threat profile is state-aligned intrusion sets, supply chain compromise and credential phishing targeting cleared staff. Basalt's ai red teaming practice is built around exactly that. Adversarial testing for production LLM and AI systems — prompt injection, jailbreaks, training-data leakage, agentic tool abuse and model manipulation tested against your real deployments.
Over 200 distinct jailbreak techniques in our active library — across Basalt operations in the past 12 months.
THREAT VECTOR
Threats facing Wellington government.
The government, tech concentration around Wellington sees state-aligned intrusion sets, supply chain compromise and credential phishing targeting cleared staff. Our ai red teaming work in Wellington is scoped against this real threat profile, not a generic checklist.
Common pains
- LLM features shipped without an attacker’s perspective
- No process for testing prompt injection or jailbreaks
- Agents wired to tools and data with no abuse modelling
ENGAGEMENT
How we engage.
- Adversarial test suite covering OWASP LLM Top 10
- Prompt injection and jailbreak findings with reproductions
- Tool-use and agent abuse path analysis
- Hardening recommendations and CI guardrails
Reporting
Every finding ships with a control reference against NZ Privacy Act 2020 and NZISM, with GCSB / NCSC NZ guidance cited where it changes the remediation priority. Board reporting follows the CERT NZ Critical Controls expectation set.
LOCAL CONTEXT
Local context.
Basalt delivers ai red teaming to organisations across Wellington and the wider Wellington region (population ~440k). The government, tech sectors that anchor the region face a distinct threat profile — state-aligned intrusion sets, supply chain compromise and credential phishing targeting cleared staff — and our engagements are scoped to that, not a generic playbook. Reporting maps cleanly to the NZ Privacy Act 2020 and NZISM that New Zealand boards already use, with regulator context (GCSB / NCSC NZ) called out where it changes a remediation priority.
RATIONALE
Why Basalt for ai red teaming in Wellington.
Reporting that lands
Findings ship with control references against NZ Privacy Act 2020 and NZISM 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.
No vendor bias
Basalt doesn't resell tooling. New Zealand government 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.
2026 THREAT LANDSCAPE
What we test for.
- Agentic AI tool-abuse and indirect prompt injection at scale
- MCP server and AI-tool supply chain compromise
- Post-quantum cryptographic readiness (NIST PQC migration)
- Identity-first attack chains across federated SaaS
- Open-source software supply chain (post-xz, post-tj-actions)
Cyber security in New Zealand 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.
FAQ
Frequently asked questions.
How fast can Basalt start a ai red teaming engagement in Wellington?
Most Wellington engagements scope inside one week and start within two. Retainer clients can trigger work the same day. We do not pipeline New Zealand clients through junior teams — a senior consultant scopes and runs the work end-to-end.
Do you do ai red teaming on-site in Wellington or remote?
Both. Sensitive work — classified-adjacent environments, live incident response, OT walkthroughs — gets on-site time in Wellington and the wider Wellington region. Routine assessments and detection engineering run remote with a tight feedback loop.
How does Basalt map findings to New Zealand regulators?
Every finding ships with a control reference against the NZ Privacy Act 2020 and NZISM so your compliance team is not re-mapping our report. Where GCSB / NCSC NZ guidance exists for the specific finding, we cite it inline. Board-level reporting follows the CERT NZ Critical Controls expectation set.
What makes ai red teaming in Wellington different from a generic engagement?
The government sector concentration in Wellington drives a different threat model than a generic New Zealand engagement — state-aligned intrusion sets, supply chain compromise and credential phishing targeting cleared staff. Our scoping reflects that, and so does the test library we bring to the work.
Is Basalt set up for AI-era threats, not just legacy infrastructure?
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.
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