Brisbane · Cyber Security
ESSENTIAL EIGHT
CONSULTANTS, BRISBANE.
Brisbane-based Microsoft partner aligning Queensland businesses to the ACSC Essential Eight using the Microsoft 365 security stack you already pay for. Identity, endpoint, email, data and cloud apps — run as one posture, reported monthly to your board.
Three shapes of engagement
Baseline. Uplift. Run.
Baseline
Essential Eight assessment
Two-week fixed-scope. Strategy-by-strategy current Maturity Level, target ML decision, prioritised remediation plan. Board-ready output on day 14.
Uplift
ML0/ML1 → ML2 in a quarter
Sequenced 90-day uplift across MFA, PIM, patching, macros, application control, backups. Audit-before-enforce on every control. Documented rollback plans.
Run
Monthly posture reporting
Board-grade monthly report — Essential Eight Maturity per strategy, identity posture, patching SLA performance, incident summary, capability progression. Not a vendor dashboard.
Partners we bring in
Specialists where specialisation helps.
Essential Eight programs touch controls we run in the Microsoft stack and controls that genuinely need specialist firms. We bring ours in where they add something we can't.
CyberCert
ACSC-endorsed certification partner. We do the uplift; they do the certification.
Excite Cyber
Managed SOC partner. 24/7 monitoring on top of Defender XDR.
CyberWyze
Security advisory and governance consulting. Independent risk voice when your board needs one.
FAQ — Brisbane Essential Eight
The questions we hear before an E8 engagement.
- Do you do Essential Eight certification in Brisbane?
- Frontrow delivers the implementation, uplift and operational maturity work. For formal certification we partner with CyberCert (an ACSC-endorsed certifier). Most Brisbane businesses need the uplift work before certification is viable — that's our scope.
- How long does it take to reach Maturity Level 2 in Brisbane?
- For a Brisbane mid-market tenant starting near ML0 or ML1, reaching ML2 on the Microsoft 365 stack typically takes a quarter of focused work — 90 days of sequenced uplift across identity, patching, macros, application control and backups. We've published a detailed playbook on this path.
- What does Essential Eight consulting cost?
- A baseline assessment is a fixed-scope two-week engagement. Uplift to ML2 varies with tenant state — typical Brisbane mid-market range is $40k–$120k excluding Microsoft licence costs. Co-managed ongoing reporting after the uplift is $2k–$6k per month.
- Who runs Essential Eight delivery?
- Our cyber and AI lead Daniel Brown (5× Microsoft MVP) architects the Essential Eight programs. Delivery is Simon Aspinall's Modern Work team for the Microsoft 365 configuration side, partnering with Excite Cyber for managed SOC coverage and CyberCert for formal certification.
Brisbane cyber review in 30 minutes.
Level 1, 355 Queen Street Brisbane QLD 4000. We'll walk your current posture, pressure-test it against the Essential Eight, and tell you what's worth doing first.