Senior technology leadership for Australian businesses.
FORTE/CYBERx is an Australian fractional CIO, cybersecurity and AI consulting practice. We help small and mid-size organisations make technology, security and AI decisions with the judgement of an experienced executive, without the cost of a full-time hire.
Who we help
Owners, CEOs, boards and IT leaders of growing Australian organisations that need senior technology judgement but don’t need, or can’t yet justify, a full-time CIO or CISO. That includes businesses facing customer security questionnaires, compliance obligations, AI adoption pressure or a major supplier decision.
What we do
Fractional CIO and CISO leadership
An experienced technology executive who sets your roadmap, guides cyber and AI decisions and works alongside your existing team.
ExploreCybersecurity consulting
Risk assessment, Essential Eight uplift, incident readiness and security strategy sized to your organisation.
ExploreAI consulting and AI security
AI strategy, use-case selection, secure adoption and governance focused on practical value rather than hype.
ExploreISO 27001 and ISO 42001
Right-sized information security and AI management systems, from gap analysis to certification readiness.
ExploreHow we work
- Senior-led
- More than 20 years of enterprise technology and security leadership, applied directly to your decisions.
- Decisions, not decks
- Every engagement ends with clear owners, actions and evidence you can act on.
- Independent
- Recommendations are not driven by vendor margins or advertising.
- Flexible engagement
- A predictable cadence, scaled to what your organisation needs now.
Frameworks we work with every day: ISO 27001, ISO 42001, ACSC Essential Eight, APRA CPS 234.
AI decision support for tech leaders
Alongside consulting, the FORTE/CYBERx platform helps leaders work through cyber risks, vendor choices, compliance gaps and AI governance questions, turning them into decision paths, trade-offs and practical plans.
See the platformWhere we work
Sydney is our operating base. We work on-site across Sydney, Newcastle and the Central Coast, and remotely with organisations across Australia.
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Client outcomes
Real engagements. Real results. Names withheld at client request.
Australian organisations that moved from gaps and templates to certification, governance and defensible security.
“We needed help achieving our ISO 27001 certification — we had gaps in our policies and processes that could have seen us fail our audit. FORTE/CYBERx helped us refine our policies and implement practical controls that enabled us to achieve certification.”
Operations Lead
Professional Services
“FORTE/CYBERx helped us achieve ISO 42001 by guiding us to securely and safely roll out AI initiatives across our business. As a small business, we did not have the experience or capabilities internally, so being able to apply enterprise expertise within our budget has allowed us to see the true benefits AI can bring.”
Director
Small Business
“Thanks to the CYBERx team, we now have a concrete defence-in-depth strategy and leading tools to help safeguard our organisation into the future, allowing us to bid on larger tenders we would have struggled to meet from a compliance lens in the past.”
General Manager
Infrastructure & Services
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