Operator-grade
The team that scopes your work in Wagga Wagga is the team that runs it. The architects are the operators. Findings come from people who've actually exploited what they're describing — not desk research.
Independent identity threat detection & response for Wagga Wagga-based agriculture organisations — board-ready reporting mapped to ASD Essential Eight and SOCI Act. Detection and response engineering focused on identity-driven attacks — credential stuffing, session hijacking, MFA fatigue, lateral movement and privilege escalation in identity providers.
The agriculture, defence concentration around Wagga Wagga sees IoT sensor compromise, supply-chain ransomware and grant/subsidy fraud. Our identity threat detection & response work in NSW 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 identity threat detection & response to organisations across Wagga Wagga and the wider NSW region (population ~57k). The agriculture, defence sectors that anchor the region face a distinct threat profile — IoT sensor compromise, supply-chain ransomware and grant/subsidy fraud — 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.
The team that scopes your work in Wagga Wagga is the team that runs it. The architects are the operators. Findings come from people who've actually exploited what they're describing — not desk research.
Local context matters: IoT sensor compromise, supply-chain ransomware and grant/subsidy fraud. Basalt's Wagga Wagga engagements are scoped to the threat profile of agriculture teams in NSW, not a generic global checklist.
Where most regional providers are still testing for 2022 threat models, Basalt actively works agentic AI tool-abuse and indirect prompt injection at scale and identity-first attack chains across federated SaaS in production engagements. Forward-leaning, not theoretical.
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 Wagga Wagga 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 Wagga Wagga and the wider NSW 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 agriculture sector concentration in Wagga Wagga drives a different threat model than a generic Australian engagement — IoT sensor compromise, supply-chain ransomware and grant/subsidy fraud. 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