Independent Cyber Security & Business Architecture Advisory · Australian Mid-Market
The cyber partner mid-market boards call for results, not reports.
Led personally by a former enterprise CISO and ex-KPMG Director. Fixed fees, guaranteed outcomes, and no products to sell you.
Big 4 Rigour, Without the Price Tag
Senior-Only, Practitioner-Led Delivery
Fixed Fees, Guaranteed Outcomes
Independent: No Resale, No Vendor Incentives
Cyber Readiness Assessments
Evidence-based posture, not self-reported confidence.
02Third-Party Risk Management
A defensible supplier register, managed monthly.
03Cyber Investigations
Compromise assessment before someone else finds it.
04Regulatory Preparedness
One framework for the 72-hour clock and the regimes behind it.
05Strategy & Transformation
Antifragile architecture, funded by what it removes.
Questionnaires measure confidence. We measure posture.
Most cyber assessments ask your team how things are configured, then grade the answers. It is the watermelon problem: green outside, red inside. Vyfority inspects the environment itself, external scanning, configuration analysis and evidence review against the benchmark you choose, so your board sees what is true rather than what is reported.
Explore cyber readiness assessments →Figure — Reported vs Actual Posture
The gap between the reported and the dashed outline is the material risk: what the dashboard claims versus what an inspection finds.
You can outsource the service. You can never outsource the risk.
Your business runs on other people's systems: cloud, SaaS, outsourced operations, and the suppliers behind those suppliers. Vyfority runs third and fourth-party risk as a managed service: a defensible register, proportionate assessments verified with OSINT scanning, and scheduled reassessment.
Explore third-party risk management →3rd & 4th Party
Suppliers, and the suppliers behind them
OSINT-Verified
Every response checked against external posture
Monthly
Scheduled reassessment, not a one-off survey
Most breaches aren't detected. They're announced.
By a ransom note, a journalist's call, or the AFP. Vyfority's compromise assessment answers the question before someone else does: passive scanning and digital forensics to determine whether a compromise is underway, contain it early if it is, and establish root cause.
Explore cyber investigations →
Regulation is stacking up. Your framework shouldn't.
The 72-hour ransomware reporting clock, SOCI obligations, Privacy Act reform, APRA's prudential standards and its expectations on AI, the new Aged Care Act. Vyfority builds one governance framework mapped to controls and verified across the three lines of assurance.
Explore regulatory preparedness →Fragile breaks under stress. Antifragile gets stronger.
Most mid-market security estates were never designed; they accreted. Vyfority's strategy and transformation practice applies antifragile principles and a threat-anchored playbook, turning the security budget from a black hole into a defensible investment with a measurable line to revenue protection.
Explore strategy & transformation →The Playbook
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Precision
The filter. Every dollar of security spend anchored to revenue protection.
- 02
Simplification
The architecture. Subtract first: remove the tools causing the bloat, then fund the build.
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Velocity
The result. Guardrails, not gates, so the programme accelerates the business.
New · Fixed-Fee Diagnostic
Your dashboard says green. We read what it is hiding.
The Posture Reality Check is a two-day, read-only diagnostic that proves the gap between your stated security policy and your actual technical reality. No agents, no exploitation, no disruption. Your board receives the stated-versus-actual table and the evidence behind it.
48 Hours
Read-only
$4,500 ex GST
Fixed
4 Domains
Identity, endpoint, network, backups
"Big 4 rigour, without the price tag."
The Security Stack Cost Audit
Your security budget is larger than it needs to be.
Most mid-market security stacks carry $30,000 to $100,000 in redundant, underused or overpriced tooling, invisible to the CFO. One structured day identifies it and produces a prioritised Kill List, or the audit is free.
Calculate your tool waste →Tools & Diagnostics
Free self-assessments, no sales call
The Principal
Dean Kastelic, Founder
Throughout my career, I've led cyber uplift initiatives across some of Australia's most iconic organisations. Time and again, I saw the same challenge: the struggle to move from strategy to execution, and the difficulty of translating high-level plans into a comprehensive programme of work with clear, measurable deliverables. I've seen exactly why the Big 4 and traditional integrator models fail: they are built on junior leverage, endless scope expansion, and reporting theatre.
In response, I founded Vyfority and developed a playbook based on what actually works in the real world. The result: an advisor who can walk into a boardroom in days, deliver a finished product in weeks, and stand firmly behind the financial and operational outcome.
Founder, VyforityFormer Enterprise CISO & KPMG Director