Our Services

We help you assess and reduce your cybersecurity risk by applying our deep expertise in offensive cybersecurity, paired with a pragmatic and actionable risk management approach.

Security Assessments

Security assessments aim to test the controls of an application, system or even an entire network. Our experts will identify vulnerabilities across your security stack and provide pragmatic remediation advice until issues are fully resolved.

Red Team

A Red Team simulates the tactics, techniques, and procedures (TTPs) of real-world threat actors to test an organisation’s defences against likely adversaries.

By emulating realistic attack scenarios, Red Team exercises assess the effectiveness of the security stack in preventing, detecting and responding to cyber-attacks.

Red Team exercises balance realism with safety, helping to identify prioritised gaps in security and raising organisational awareness, ultimately strengthening overall resilience.

Our Red Team services include:

  • Classic Red Team
  • Advanced Red Team
  • Assumed Breach
  • Continuous Red Team
  • CORIE

Penetration & Product Security Testing

A Penetration Test leverages the offensive expertise of our security team to simulate real-world attacks on your critical systems and applications.

By targeting vulnerabilities in your infrastructure, applications, or networks, we identify weaknesses that could be exploited by malicious actors. Our tailored approach uncovers misconfigurations, flawed application logic, and other security gaps that may have gone unnoticed.

The findings allow you to prioritise and remediate these vulnerabilities before they can be exploited, ensuring your systems remain secure while enhancing your overall security posture.

Purple Team

A Purple Team exercise brings together the offensive expertise of the Red Team and the defensive capabilities of the Blue Team to identify and remediate security gaps.

By simulating real-world attack scenarios, the Red Team works alongside your Blue Team to define tactics, techniques, and procedures (TTPs) that should be detected and prevented by your existing security controls. Any gaps in control effectiveness are quickly identified, investigated, and addressed through iterative cycles, ensuring continuous improvement.

This collaboration not only strengthens your security defences but also raises awareness and enhances the skills of your defensive teams.

Security Uplift

A comprehensive analysis and remediation plan which aims to tangibly reduce organisational risk in the short-medium term for key cyber security scenarios. 
 
An uplift encompasses deep analysis of threat profiles and realistic risk scenarios to define attack paths, in-depth technical testing to validate and uncover risks, and build a pragmatic plan to mitigate immediate critical deficiencies.  

Incident Response

Incidents are inevitable. Our team help prepare, mitigate, eradicate incidences and provide root-cause analysis to prevent future risk.

Incident Readiness

Equip your organisation with the tools, processes, and training needed for a swift and effective response to cyber incidents. Our incident readiness service minimises impact, enhances resilience, and ensures you're prepared for the unexpected.

Post-Incident Response Analysis and Remediation 

After the incident has been eradicated, our expert team will identify opportunities to improve preventative controls to reduce the risk of incident re-occurrence. 

On-Call/Emergency Incident Response Retainer 

Our team will identify the threat, analyse risk and damages to critical assets, and provide immediate and preventative remediation, uprooting the threat from the network. 

Board and Executive Tabletop Simulations

Boards and executive teams need to be prepared for a cyber incident. Our in-depth and realistic scenarios help prepare executive teams in the event of an incident to minimise the resulting impact.

Strategy & GRC

We help build pragmatic risk-based strategies and perform assessments against industry best practice frameworks.

Cyber Strategy & Roadmap Development 

Defining a long-term plan is important to ensuring that your organisation has a proactive approach to security. 
 
Our team helps you define a long-term path forward based on your risk profile with a pragmatic plan and operating model to uplift and maintain security in your organisation. 

Security Maturity Assessments 

Our team helps you baseline your cyber security control and capability effectiveness and performance by conducting in-depth assessments including NIST, ISO 27001/2, CSF and Essential 8. 

Technical Due Diligence 

Investing in or acquiring a company carries a cyber security risk that can manifest itself in impairment to the target.  
 
Our team uses a bespoke methodology to provide an assessment of both the existing level of risk and a quantification of the gap towards a desired target state, including a detailed remediation plan. 

Cyber Risk Management

We help you build the right frameworks, policies and processes aligned to your risk profile across a broad range of areas:

  • BAU Process
  • Third-Party Risk
  • Control Library
  • Risk and Threat Modelling
  • Cyber Reporting Metrics
  • Risk Assessment Capability Design

vCISO and Embedded Security Team

Are you a smaller organisation needing security expertise and advice, but you’re not quite ready to invest in an in-house security team just yet? Or do you need some temporary support while you find your next CISO? 
 
Our expert team can operate as an embedded part of your organisation, either as a vCISO or embedded security team to help you uplift, mature and maintain security capabilities and controls until you are ready to make the next step. 

Our Approach

At Skylight Cyber, we aim to take your security posture beyond the point of economic viability for attackers.  We work with you on your transformation journey by:

Understanding your business

The first step is understanding how your business works inside and out, and engaging all relevant stakeholders in the transformation process. Threats relevant to your organisation’s profile are mapped out.

Demonstrating the cyber attack path

We demonstrate real cyber attack paths that can be actively exploited in your current IT or OT environment to compromise your critical assets. Only by an offensive security approach can you determine your real exposure.

Matching your controls to your threats

Given what’s at stake, we match realistic controls to your threats to quickly and effectively reduce your risk exposure.

Building a pragmatic cybersecurity strategy

After uncovering your true security landscape, together we build a holistic cybersecurity strategy and program suitable to your resources to maintain an acceptable level of risk.

Provide ongoing advisory support as your security partner

Once you kick-off your new cybersecurity journey, we provide ongoing advisory support as your security partner when you need it. Your security strategy will also continuously evolve as the landscape changes.

Design

Assess

Enhance

Acceptable Level of Risk

The key difference in our approach

By combining our offensive security expertise with business acumen, we are able to:

Translate and bridge the gap between business, IT and cybersecurity mindsets

Combine a top-down and bottom-up approach to cyber strategy

Provide you with pragmatic advice and security road maps that make sense for your organisation

Who we’ve worked with

Health

Skylight Cyber was engaged to determine this health company’s exposure to potential cybersecurity incidents. In particular, what could stop them from getting products on shelves and maintain strong confidence in product quality?

The Organisation Profile

  • ASX200 listed company
  • 1000+ employees
  • Asia-Pacific presence

The Solution

  • Map out the business processes that underpin Group operation across the business units
  • Identify unique cybersecurity risks and map to organisational risk register
  • Blackbox and whitebox penetration testing of multiple environments

the results

  • 25+ stakeholders interviewed to increase organisation awareness and engagement
  • 50+ technical findings underpinned by 30+ verified exploitable techniques were contextualised to uncover technical risk exposure
  • 80+ short/medium/long term remediation items formed the backbone of a security roadmap to buy down risk

Manufacturing

Skylight Cyber was engaged to assist a Group comprised of business units of varying levels of security maturity. Given disparate systems and a complex global supply chain, how can the Group ensure that potential disruptions to the value chain are minimised?

The Organisation profile

  • Hundreds of Millions of € in revenue
  • Thousands of employees acorss 30+ business units globally
  • Globally dispersed supply chain

The solution

  • Defined a cybersecurity strategy and risk framework to allow risk definition and prioritisation
  • Formalised and standardised cybersecurity processes across the Group
  • Performed multiple security testing exercises and security configuration reviews for business across the organisation

the results

  • Mitigated cybersecurity related risks to acceptable levels in high-priority business units in the first year
  • Created a governance framework to control the implementation and ongoing maintenance of Group standards across key business units

Financial Services and Banking

Skylight Cyber was engaged to review the security design concepts and implementation of a new cloud-based banking platform. Is this platform ready for production from a security perspective, and does it expose the organisation's corporate network to additional risk?

The Organisation profile

  • Large financial services institution
  • Millions of customers
  • APRA-regulated entity

The solution

  • Red team technical assessment to identify potential attack vectors, vulnerabilities and risks within the environment, focusing on likely techniques that could be utilised by a threat actor to create an adverse business impact.
  • Root cause analysis workshops with stakeholders to identify underlying issues such as SDLC and control deficiencies.

the results

  • 50+ technical findings leading up to the analysis of higher-order issues in security operations
  • Highlighted the exposure of the organisation's legacy systems due to weaknesses in the cloud deployment
  • Provided recommendations for locking down the environment and delivering true "secure by design" practices as per the defined risk appetite.

Engineering and Construction

Skylight Cyber was engaged to determine how the organisation would fare against a simulated adversary. Can the organisation prevent, detect and respond to activities targeting its most critical assets?

The Organisation profile

  • Global company
  • 50,000+ employees across the globe
  • Billions of $ in revenue

The solution

  • Execution of blackbox red team exercise to test the effectiveness of the company's prevention and detection capabilities
  • Transition to an incident response and crisis management exercise involving multiple layers of the organisation, from IT all the way to the board
  • Post-mortem workshops to identify improvement opportunities

the results

  • Evaluation on the performance of security detection and response controls during a real cyber intrusion
  • Raising of internal awareness of cybersecurity threats and how they translate into business impacts
  • 40+ actionable remediation items for quick reduction of risk exposure