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// ABOUT FERRES SYSTEMS

Security is people. These are ours.

A Melbourne-based, security-led team working with businesses across Australia. The people doing the work are named below.

// THE MISSION

Enterprise-grade security was built for enterprises. We exist to put it within reach of the Australian businesses that need it most.

That means serious tooling deployed properly, a real person on the end of the phone, and plain English at every step. No jargon walls. No scare tactics.

// HOW WE WORK

Four things we do not compromise on

The same four apply to every engagement and every client.

01
Security first

Security is the lens for everything we run, from a mailbox migration to a managed fleet. It is the discipline the whole company is built on, not an add-on.

02
Plain English

Write-ups and reports written for you, not for another engineer. If you cannot forward it to your board or your insurer, we rewrite it.

03
One accountable team

The same Melbourne-based team owns your work end to end, working nationally. No outsourcing your problem to a desk you will never speak to.

04
Data stays in Australia

Client data lives inside Australian infrastructure. It matters most to anyone holding health, legal or financial records.

Led from the front
George Ferres leads every engagement. He also teaches cybersecurity and speaks at security conferences, so the standard your environment is run to is one he has to defend in front of a room.
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WHAT THAT MEANS IN PRACTICE
01 A named owner from day one Every engagement has one, and you meet them before anything is signed
02 Scope written in plain English What we will do, what you have at the end, and when, agreed before work starts
03 Escalation reaches a person For managed security clients, a named responder owns every confirmed incident end to end, and a priority one is handled within 30 minutes, any hour
04 Reviews on a schedule Posture reporting monthly and a proper review quarterly, not a scramble after something breaks
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// THE WHOLE TEAM

The people on the other end of the phone

George Ferres
George Ferres
Founder and Principal

Scopes the work, makes the technical decisions, and is accountable for delivery.

Hirusha Adikari
Hirusha Adikari
Security and Incident Response Consultant

Investigates security alerts and incidents, and advises on the controls that prevent them.

Sham Polavarapu
Sham Polavarapu
Security and Incident Response Consultant

Coordinates containment during an incident, and the improvements that follow it.

Kat Ho
Kat Ho
Offensive Security Analyst and Penetration Tester

Tests applications and systems for exploitable weaknesses, and reports the impact and the fixes.

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The platforms behind the service, deployed and managed by us
Microsoft Partner
Microsoft Defender
Microsoft Sentinel
Microsoft Azure
Amazon Web Services
Cloudflare
CrowdStrike
Splunk
Palo Alto Networks
Cisco
Fortinet
Dropsuite
1Password
Okta
GitHub
PagerDuty
Malwarebytes
Dell
Ubiquiti
MikroTik

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