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Independent IT Posture Review

A structured, independent review of your organisation's actual IT security posture. Not a compliance checklist. Not a vendor assessment. An honest account of where your environment stands across the areas that cause the most damage when they are wrong, written by someone with no interest in selling you the remediation.

The review covers five areas:

  1. Identity and access

    Who has access to what, and whether enforcement matches policy. MFA coverage, admin account hygiene, stale accounts, privileged access patterns.

  2. Endpoint and patch posture

    Whether devices are actually managed, patched, and visible to the organisation. The difference between enrolled and compliant.

  3. Email and data protection

    Email authentication records, anti-phishing controls, data handling, and whether protection policies are enforced or merely configured.

  4. Backup and recovery

    Whether backups exist, whether they have been tested, and whether recovery is a documented process or an assumption.

  5. Operational ownership

    Whether someone is formally accountable for each system, credential, and configuration. The gap between "our IT provider handles that" and what is actually in scope for them.

Deliverables are a written report (8 to 12 pages), a 60-minute walkthrough call, and a prioritised next actions list. The report is written to be read by a business owner, not a technical audience. It states what was found, what the risk is, and what to do about it.

Fixed price: AUD 1,200 + GST. Turnaround: two weeks from scoping call. Work is conducted independently. Deskport will not be pitched during or within 90 days of the engagement.

Also available for

Beyond the posture review, I take on fractional, advisory, and project engagements where the fit is right. That includes architecture reviews, infrastructure programme advice, technical due diligence for acquisitions or vendor changes, and fractional technical leadership for organisations that need senior perspective without a full-time hire. These engagements are scoped individually. Get in touch to discuss whether there is a fit.

How to start

Send an email to rob@robswain.au or a message on LinkedIn. We will have a short scoping call to confirm what you need and whether this is the right engagement for it. Nothing is agreed without that conversation first.

Let's talk.

Interested in working together, or just want to connect? Drop me a line and I'll get back to you.

rob@robswain.au