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Cybersecurity compliance audit for small business

You do not need an enterprise security team to know exactly where your business stands. We assess your setup against the Essential Eight and your Privacy Act / Notifiable Data Breaches obligations, and hand you a plain-English report and a prioritised remediation plan — the same baseline your cyber insurer already judges you against, without the consultant-speak.

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A gap report you can act on, not a wall of findings

What we assess

A focused audit against the frameworks that actually get checked — by an insurer, by a client's security questionnaire, or by you, the next time you wonder if you are actually covered.

Essential Eight maturity
Where you actually sit against patching, application control, admin restriction, and backups, scored against Maturity Level 1 — the level insurers care about.
Privacy Act & NDB readiness
What you collect, how it is protected, and whether you could actually meet your Notifiable Data Breaches reporting obligations if something went wrong.
MFA & access control
Every login that matters — email, accounting, remote access, admin accounts — checked, not just the ones someone remembered to set up first.
Backup & recovery testing
Not just whether a backup exists — whether it actually restores, and whether a compromised account could also delete it.
Third-party & SaaS access
Every app, contractor, and former staff login with access to your systems, and whether that access still needs to exist.
Cyber insurance readiness
The gap between what your insurer's underwriting questionnaire asks and what you could actually demonstrate today.

What a proper audit actually looks like

Plenty of "security audits" are a scored checklist and an upsell. These are the things that make one genuinely useful.

  • Plain English: a report you can actually read and act on, not a wall of jargon and a traffic-light score.
  • Prioritised, not just listed: findings ranked by what actually reduces your risk first, not alphabetical order.
  • A baseline you can re-test: a maturity score you can measure again in six or twelve months to see real progress.
  • Independent findings: the audit tells you what is actually wrong, regardless of what we sell you afterward.
  • Fixed scope, fixed timeline: you know upfront what is covered and when you get the report — not an open-ended engagement that drifts.

What you get

Essential Eight gap report
Your current maturity level against each of the eight controls, with the specific gaps holding you back from Maturity Level 1.
Prioritised remediation plan
A concrete, ordered list of what to fix first, second, and third — sized to what a small business can actually action.
Privacy Act / NDB checklist
A working checklist against your actual data handling, not a generic template copied from somewhere else.
Executive summary
A short summary suitable for handing to an insurer, a board, or a client's security questionnaire — without walking them through the full report.
How TechQuery fits into your business
The audit tells you where you stand. If you would rather not action the remediation plan yourself, our Small Business IT Support service covers the patching, access control, and backup work that makes up most of Maturity Level 1 — and we can re-test against the same baseline once it is done.

Want the background first? Our guide to the Essential Eight for small business covers what the eight controls actually mean and why insurers care about them.

Want an honest read on where you actually stand?

Create an account to get a cybersecurity compliance audit scoped to your business — a plain-English report and a remediation plan you can actually act on.

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Want more depth? Read field notes on the blog.