Cybersecurity Advisory & Solutions
Successfully addressing the modern cybersecurity conundrum by analysing cyber risk in terms of actual threats, likelihood, and impact to achieve a balanced, optimal cybersecurity posture that complies with your organisation’s requirements.
At Aston, we believe that cybersecurity shouldn’t be complicated or inaccessible. Our objective is to demystify cybersecurity, making it understandable and manageable for businesses of all sizes. With decades of hands-on experience and deep technical expertise, we simplify the complexities of cybersecurity to deliver clear, actionable strategies, controls, and solutions.
Whether it’s fortifying your Digital Workspace, IT infrastructure, or providing advice and expertise to ensure compliance with industry standards, mitigating risks, identifying threats and vulnerabilities, or secure-by-design consulting, we break down the barriers to security and ensure resilient systems—so you can focus on what matters most: your business success.
Cybersecurity Consultancy Services
Aston empowers organisations with comprehensive cybersecurity expertise, delivering strategic insights and solutions to protect against today’s evolving threats. Our consultancy services offer deep expertise across critical security domains, helping you build resilience, ensure compliance, and safeguard your digital assets. With Aston as your cybersecurity partner, you can confidently navigate complex security challenges and focus on driving business success:
Digital Asset Security Services
At Aston, we recognize that your digital assets—intellectual property, information, data, IT systems, and infrastructure—form the bedrock of your organisation’s success. Our Digital Asset Security Services safeguard these critical resources through robust security strategies, continuous monitoring, and best-in-class risk management practices. From identifying and classifying assets to understanding their lifecycle and accepted risk exposures, we ensure your assets remain resilient, compliant, and primed to support your business objectives.
Security Strategy & Risk Management
We collaborate with you to identify, assess, and mitigate risks to your IT assets, crafting a strategic roadmap that aligns with your organisation’s risk tolerance and business goals.
- Security Strategy based on Risk and Attack Surface Management: We identify and mitigate cybersecurity risks using advanced threat modelling techniques, security threat analysis, and comprehensive risk management. Our tailored approach develops cybersecurity strategies dictating procedures and controls specific to your business’s security requirements and risk appetite.
- Cybersecurity Governance & Compliance: Leveraging our expertise in cybersecurity legislation and governance frameworks—such as ISO 27000, NIST & NIST CSF, the Australian Essential Eight, IEC 62443, and PCI-DSS—we enhance your security strategy to align with best practices and regulatory compliance requirements.
Enterprise Security Architecture
Our deep expertise in cybersecurity—including cybersecurity strategy, risk and compliance, threat modelling, and risk mitigation—combined with our aptitude in systems engineering enables us to design security strategies and resultant security solution architectures that are considered, compliant, resilient, and practical. We balance Secure-By-Design and Zero Trust principles with pervasive, in-depth security to ensure that your workspace, infrastructure, and application software are built for resilience.
Security Operations
As a value-add reseller for established security vendors, Aston enhances your organisation’s security posture by implementing controls based on established cybersecurity strategies. These controls integrate with monitoring and logging (SIEM) solutions to alert on indicators of compromise, facilitating swift, efficient incident response based on well-defined plans.
Threat & Vulnerability Management
Our team have the expertise to detect and neutralise potential threats before they can impact your operations, utilising threat modelling techniques combined with the latest threat intelligence and vulnerability assessment tools.
Incident Response & Recovery
We recognise that a swift and effective response to cyber incidents is critical to minimising damage and restoring business operations. Our Incident Response and Recovery services are geared to help your business prepare, test, respond, and recover with resilience—strengthening your defences and ensuring your business can withstand and effectively bounce back from cyber incidents with confidence. With a well-planned Incident Response & Recovery planning will enable your business to rapidly contain and remediate incidents, mitigate impact, and guide you through a structured recovery process.
3rd Party Risk Assessment
In today’s interconnected business landscape, your organisation’s security depends not only on your own systems but also on those of your third-party partners. Aston IT’s Third-Party Risk Assessment Services offer comprehensive evaluations of your vendors’ security practices, ensuring alignment with your organisation’s standards and compliance requirements. Our assessments cover regulatory compliance, overall risk exposure, potential risks, threats and vulnerabilities, ultimately providing your business with the insights to manage and mitigate third-party risk. With our support, you can confidently build and maintain secure, resilient partnerships that protect your data, reputation, and operations.
Forensic Security
Aston’s Forensic Security Services offer comprehensive investigative capabilities combined with advanced techniques to uncover, preserve, analyse, report, and present on security incidents and breaches, examining their impact and root cause. We go beyond mere forensics, developing strategies to prevent future occurrences. With Aston as your partner, you gain insights and actions needed to strengthen your security posture and navigate the complexities of cyber incidents effectively.
Disaster Recovery
At Aston, we view Disaster Recovery (DR) as the most fundamental aspect of cybersecurity—the ability to recover swiftly when all else fails is paramount. Our experts guide your business in developing, building, and testing a comprehensive plan to ensure you can resume operations following any disruption or disaster. We prioritise meticulous planning and thorough testing to ensure your recovery strategy is both effective and reliable. From natural disasters to cyber incidents, our well-crafted plan will maintain operational continuity.
Our team collaborates closely with you to create a robust disaster recovery plan that incorporates essential elements such as Business Impact Analysis, Threats and Risks, Recovery Objectives, Recovery Strategies, DR Team, DR Plan, Backup Strategies and Solutions, Testing, Review and Update, as well as Staff Training—all customised to align with your specific business requirements and regulatory standards. With Aston as your trusted partner, you can be confident that your business is fully prepared to bounce back quickly and effectively in today’s unpredictable landscape.
Security Solutions
Aston is uniquely positioned to offer vendor-backed, comprehensive cybersecurity solutions tailored to your business needs, encompassing technologies used in the implementation of:
Attack Surface Management:
DevSecOps:
Intrusion Detection and Prevention (IDS/IPS):
Security Information and Event Management (SIEM):
Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR):
Identity Governance and Access Management (IAM/PAM/IGA):
Role-Based Access:
Multifactor Authentication:
Data Loss Prevention (DLP):
Vulnerability Management:
Device Hardening:
Network Access Control (NAC):
Application Control:
Segmentation, Segregation, and Micro-segmentation:
System Hardening:
