Built for agriculture
Basalt's Dubbo practice has been working agriculture 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.
Dubbo agriculture organisations face IoT sensor compromise, supply-chain ransomware and grant/subsidy fraud. Basalt's post-quantum cryptography readiness practice tests against that real threat profile, not a generic Australia-wide playbook. Post-quantum cryptography readiness ahead of the NIST PQC deadlines and the "harvest now, decrypt later" reality already in play — cryptographic inventory, agility assessment and a migration plan that does not block engineering for years.
The agriculture, mining concentration around Dubbo sees IoT sensor compromise, supply-chain ransomware and grant/subsidy fraud. Our post-quantum cryptography readiness 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 post-quantum cryptography readiness to organisations across Dubbo and the wider NSW region (population ~40k). The agriculture, mining 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.
Basalt's Dubbo practice has been working agriculture 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 agriculture 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 Dubbo 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 Dubbo 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 Dubbo 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