Operator-grade
The team that scopes your work in Penrith 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.
Most threat intelligence engagements in Penrith are either too generic or too academic. Basalt sits in the middle — operator-grade work, ACSC-cited reporting, Australian-context throughout. Threat intelligence that drives detections and decisions, not PDF reports nobody reads — adversary-group tracking mapped to your attack surface, sector and geography, fed into your SOC and engineering teams.
The logistics, healthcare concentration around Penrith sees EDI compromise, fuel-card fraud and warehouse-management ransomware. Our threat intelligence 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 threat intelligence to organisations across Penrith and the wider NSW region (population ~215k). The logistics, healthcare sectors that anchor the region face a distinct threat profile — EDI compromise, fuel-card fraud and warehouse-management ransomware — 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 Penrith 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: EDI compromise, fuel-card fraud and warehouse-management ransomware. Basalt's Penrith engagements are scoped to the threat profile of logistics 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 Penrith 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 Penrith 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 logistics sector concentration in Penrith drives a different threat model than a generic Australian engagement — EDI compromise, fuel-card fraud and warehouse-management ransomware. 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