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Cyber Advisory.

Board-level cyber advisory for organisations where security failure is a regulated, reportable, and operationally material event — not just an IT issue.

MRBF engages on cyber where it intersects governance, regulation, and engineering reality. We work with boards, CISOs, and risk committees on posture, regulatory uplift, third-party exposure, and the institutional readiness to handle an incident credibly. We are independent of any product, MSSP, or audit firm.

[01_Context]

Where the work sits.

  • 01Boards and audit committees discharging cyber oversight duties under SOCI, APRA CPS 234, and equivalent regimes.
  • 02CISOs and CIOs designing multi-year security uplift programs under capital and regulatory pressure.
  • 03Government agencies and regulators setting cyber standards and procurement obligations.
  • 04Investors and acquirers diligencing cyber posture, incident history, and remediation cost.
[02_Tailored_Services]
S_01

Board & executive cyber advisory

Briefings, posture reviews, and ongoing counsel to boards and executives — translating technical exposure into governance, capital, and disclosure decisions.

S_02

Regulatory uplift programs

SOCI, APRA CPS 234, ISM, Essential Eight, and sector-specific obligations — designing realistic uplift programs that survive audit and operational reality.

S_03

Third-party & supply chain risk

Vendor risk frameworks, software supply chain assurance, and the contractual and technical controls required where critical capability is outsourced.

S_04

Incident readiness & governance

Tabletop exercises, crisis playbooks, communications protocols, and the decision rights organisations need before an incident — not during one.

S_05

Security architecture review

Independent review of identity, segmentation, detection, and recovery architectures — including IT/OT boundaries and cloud and SaaS posture.

S_06

M&A & investment cyber diligence

Pre- and post-deal cyber diligence — posture, latent incident exposure, remediation cost, and integration risk for boards and investment committees.

[03_Case_Highlights]

Illustrative scenarios drawn from the kind of problems MRBF is equipped to engage on in this domain. Anonymised by design — specific principals and outcomes are confirmed in scoping and governed by confidentiality.

C_01Critical infrastructure

SOCI uplift program for a regulated operator.

Independent program design and assurance for a multi-year uplift covering risk management, incident reporting, and enhanced cyber obligations.

Illustrative · scoped under confidentiality

C_02Financial services

Board cyber posture review under CPS 234.

Independent assessment of board reporting, third-party assurance, and incident governance ahead of a regulator-driven review cycle.

Illustrative · scoped under confidentiality

C_03Investor

Cyber diligence on a platform acquisition.

Post-LOI diligence covering historical incident exposure, current posture, remediation backlog, and integration cost into the acquirer's environment.

Illustrative · scoped under confidentiality

[04_Questions_We_Engage]

The questions we are built for.

  • Q_01Is our cyber posture defensible to a regulator, an auditor, and a board — at the same time?
  • Q_02Where is the gap between our written controls and what the organisation actually does?
  • Q_03If a material incident happened tomorrow, do we know who decides what, and in what order?
  • Q_04How exposed are we through our critical vendors and software supply chain?
  • Q_05Is the uplift program we have committed to realistic, or theatre?
[05_Engage]

Bring a cyber advisory question into scoping.

Engagements begin with a scoping conversation. We confirm the problem, the senior practitioners or specialists who would deliver, and whether MRBF is the right counterpart before any work starts.

Treated as confidential. No third-party sharing.