Cybersecurity for government
Cube Cyber secures state and local government environments, Essential Eight assessment and uplift, ISM-aligned architecture, 24/7 monitoring and incident response, delivered by an Australian-owned firm with data kept onshore. Government carries obligations most sectors do not: public accountability, data sovereignty, and community services that cannot pause, and its security partners should be built for exactly that.
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How we help
We don't provide a generic package. We adapt established cybersecurity disciplines to the realities of this environment.
Essential Eight assessment and uplift
Evidence-based maturity assessment, the level you actually hold, followed by costed, sequenced uplift and hands-on implementation, with evidence maintained continuously for the reporting and audit cycle.
ISM-aligned architecture
Security architecture and segmentation aligned to the ISM and government standards, designed for estates that mix modern cloud, legacy systems and, in local government, operational technology from water plants to building systems.
Sovereign 24/7 monitoring
Our Australian hybrid SOC, Australian analysts, client data kept onshore, monitoring government environments around the clock, with escalation paths built for public-sector decision structures.
Incident readiness and response
Response plans and exercises that include the public dimension, notification, communications, ministerial and council briefings, plus retainers and investigation capability for when it happens.
Governance and assurance
ISO 27001 programs, risk frameworks and audit-ready reporting that satisfy internal audit, external review and the public accountability layer above both.
Obligations & frameworks
We work across the frameworks government answers to: the ASD Essential Eight and ISM as the backbone, jurisdictional security policies and reporting requirements, the Privacy Act and privacy principles applying to citizen data, SOCI obligations where councils and agencies operate critical infrastructure, water among them, and ISO 27001 where certification anchors assurance. As an Australian-owned firm founded in Brisbane in 2015, with offices in Brisbane, Melbourne and Perth and data kept onshore, sovereignty is how we are built, not a compliance feature.
Why government chooses Cube Cyber
Sovereign by construction
Australian-owned since 2015, Australian analysts, data kept onshore, sovereignty is the firm's architecture, not a contract clause.
Essential Eight, evidenced
Maturity positions built on operational evidence and maintained continuously, because in government the audit is never far away, and claims are only as good as their paper trail.
Breadth matched to council and agency estates
From finance systems to water treatment, one partner across corporate IT and the operational technology most providers decline to touch.
Frequently asked questions
Targets vary by jurisdiction and system classification, with Maturity Level Two the common benchmark for most government-aligned requirements. The practical question is evidence: an independently assessed, continuously evidenced maturity position, which is what we deliver, versus a self-assessed claim that dissolves under audit. We also advise where a higher target is genuinely warranted by threat, rather than assuming maximum everywhere.
Yes. Our hybrid SOC is Australian, staffed by Australian analysts, and client data handled through our SOC and services is kept onshore in Australia. For government clients, residency and sovereignty requirements are addressed in service design from the start, including where telemetry lives, who can access it, and how support is delivered.
Yes, and councils are often surprised how much OT they operate: water and wastewater treatment, building management, traffic systems, CCTV networks. We bring more than 10 years of OT experience and the same passive, availability-first methods we apply in industry, with SOCI obligations addressed where they apply to council-operated infrastructure.
We work within government procurement processes and panel arrangements as required, with the certifications, insurances and reference points procurement expects. Engagements are scoped and documented to public-sector standards, and our reporting is written knowing it may one day be tabled, clarity and defensibility first.
As the security specialist beside the generalist, a common and healthy arrangement. Your provider keeps running the environment; we add the disciplines they are not built for: independent assessment, Essential Eight evidence, 24/7 monitoring, OT security and incident response. The independence also matters upward: security assurance about an environment should not come only from the party operating it.
Prepared, or painful. Government incidents carry a public dimension, media, ministerial or council briefings, community notification, that must run alongside the technical response, not after it. Our readiness work builds both tracks into the plan and exercises them together, and our responders have worked incidents where the press conference mattered as much as the containment.
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