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Verityn

Independent advisory, Australia

The senior person you meet is the person who does the work.

Verityn covers offensive security testing, governance and assurance, crisis management, specialist talent and training. Small teams of experienced practitioners, engaged directly, accountable for the result.

Start a conversation How an engagement runs
Engagement model
Named principals, fixed scope
Coverage
Australia wide, on site or remote
Founded on
Integrity, competence, action
Personnel
AU citizens, NV1 or NV2 cleared

Service lines

Offensive Security Advisory & Governance Crisis Management Talent Training

What we believe

Trust is earned through competence, integrity, and action.

Organisations deserve advice that is honest, practical and aligned to their objectives, rather than shaped by sales targets or unnecessary complexity. Security should strengthen an organisation. Governance should enable good decisions instead of creating bureaucracy. Recruitment should connect capable people with real opportunities.

Expertise carries responsibility. When we are trusted with your business information, your systems or your reputation, we act with professionalism, discretion and accountability.

The Verityn position

A Verityn practitioner working with a client team

Practitioner led, on site where it matters

The problem You are buying judgement, and judgement is hard to inspect before you commit.

By the time a report lands or an incident is running, the quality of the advice you bought is already priced in. Three failures show up again and again.

  • Advice written to sell the next thing

    Findings get shaped around a product line or a follow on programme. The recommendation you receive answers a commercial question rather than yours.

  • Reports that describe risk without reducing it

    Hundreds of pages, a heat map, no clear sequence of action. Your team is left to work out what to do first, and the same findings reappear next year.

  • A senior team pitches, a junior team delivers

    The people in the room during procurement are rarely the people on the engagement. Continuity breaks, context is lost, and you pay to educate someone who is learning on your environment.

Verityn was built to remove all three. Every engagement is scoped by the practitioner who will run it, priced to a fixed outcome, and delivered by named people you meet before you sign. We say what we found, what it means, and what to do about it, in that order.

What we do

Five service lines, one standard of work.

Offensive Security

We emulate the techniques that would actually be used against you, across established and emerging technology, then walk your engineers through exactly how each one worked.

Offensive security services

Selected capabilities

  • External and internal penetration testing
  • Web application and API testing
  • Cloud security testing and review
  • AI and emerging technology testing
  • Red team and assumed breach
  • Social engineering assessments
  • Static and dynamic code review
  • SOC assurance testing

What you get A prioritised, exploit backed picture of your exposure, written for engineers and summarised for the board, with a retest that proves the fixes held.

Advisory & Governance

Governance that speeds decisions up. Frameworks your people can operate without a consultant in the room, and controls that survive an audit.

Advisory and governance services

Selected capabilities

  • Executive consulting and advisory
  • Business and security strategy
  • Risk assessments
  • Governance and assurance
  • Maturity assessments
  • Framework development
  • Policy and procedure documentation
  • Data and technology governance
  • Internal controls and assurance
  • Compliance and regulatory assurance
  • Cyber security uplift
  • Staff and executive training

What you get Board ready positions, a defensible control set, and a maturity baseline you can measure against twelve months from now.

Crisis Management

Experienced hands beside your executive team from the first hour, through restoration, and into the second and third order effects that arrive weeks later.

Crisis management services

Selected capabilities

  • Executive crisis advisory
  • Operational resilience assessments
  • Systems restoration
  • Crisis media and public affairs
  • Crisis management training
  • Second and third order effects advisory
  • Incident response readiness exercises
  • Tabletop attack simulations

What you get A leadership team that knows its role before the incident, and a restoration path that holds up to a regulator, a board and a journalist.

Talent

Search run by practitioners who can assess the work rather than the wording on a CV. Exceptional outcomes are delivered by exceptional people, so we treat hiring as part of the security problem.

Talent services

Selected capabilities

  • Executive and specialist search
  • Technical capability assessment
  • Contract and interim placement
  • Team build out and uplift
  • Market mapping
  • Remuneration benchmarking
  • Onboarding and retention advice
  • Advisory board and NED introductions

What you get A short, honest shortlist, screened by people who have done the role, with a clear read on what each candidate will and will not cover.

Training

Sessions built from what we found in your environment rather than a stock deck, delivered by the practitioners who do the work, from board briefings through to hands on technical workshops.

Training services

Selected capabilities

  • Board and executive briefings
  • Governance obligations and duties
  • Crisis management training
  • Facilitated tabletop exercises
  • Security awareness programmes
  • Phishing and social engineering recognition
  • Practitioner workshops for security teams
  • Secure development and code review

What you get People who behave differently under pressure, and a record of what was covered, what the group struggled with, and what to change as a result.

How an engagement runs

Three stages. No surprises in any of them.

Before

Where most organisations start

A control set nobody has tested under pressure. Findings from a prior review that were never sequenced. A board asking a question the current reporting cannot answer. Capable people carrying more than they should.

The engagement

Scoped and run by the same people

The practitioner who will lead the work scopes it with you, in your language and your operating context. Fixed scope, fixed price, named team, a standing weekly contact, and findings raised the day we find them rather than at the end.

After

Where you land

A ranked sequence of action with owners and effort attached, evidence that the fixes worked, reporting your board can read without translation, and a baseline to measure the next twelve months against.

Standing

Cleared, onshore, and Australian owned.

100%

Australian citizens. No offshore or subcontracted delivery

NV1 / NV2

AGSVA security clearances held across the practice

Onshore

Every engagement performed from within Australia

Every Verityn practitioner is an Australian citizen, based in Australia, and holds a current AGSVA security clearance at NV1 or NV2. For government, defence and critical infrastructure work, that is a precondition rather than a differentiator, and we meet it before the conversation starts.

Speak with Verityn

You will speak to a principal, not a switchboard.

Tell us what you are trying to decide. The first conversation is a scoping discussion with the person who would lead the work, and it costs nothing. If we are not the right firm for it, we will tell you and point you somewhere better.

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