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SMB1001 Gold certification for Brisbane businesses
A client, insurer or tender panel has asked you to prove your cyber security is in order, and SMB1001 is the Australian standard that does it. We take Brisbane businesses to Gold, the independently certified tier that serious requests ask for.
Real Bytes is a CyberCert Gold MSSP holding SMB1001 Gold ourselves, so we are certified to the tier we take you to. Our engineers are senior and Brisbane-based, with no offshore call centres.
Why it usually lands on your desk
Almost nobody goes looking for SMB1001. It arrives because a larger client has tightened its supply chain requirements, an insurer has added questions to your renewal, or a government tender lists it as a condition of bidding.
That means it usually arrives with a deadline. The work itself is manageable, but only if the gap assessment happens early enough to leave time for remediation before the evidence is due.
The controls behind it are the same ones that stop the incidents in the first place, so the effort is not wasted compliance theatre. It is the baseline work most businesses have been putting off.
Where we focus
Gold is the tier that opens doors
SMB1001 is a tiered standard, and the tier you need is the one your client, insurer or tender specifies. In practice, Gold is the one that gets asked for when the requirement is serious, because it is independently certified rather than self-attested.
Real Bytes holds SMB1001 Gold as a CyberCert Gold MSSP. We are certified to the tier we take our clients to.
That matters for two reasons. We have been through the assessment ourselves, so we know what the evidence needs to look like rather than guessing. And when a tender asks whether your IT provider is certified, the answer is yes.
Talk about getting to GoldThe other four tiers
- BronzeEntry baseline. Often enough for smaller supply chain requests.
- SilverAdds structure around access, backup and staff awareness.
- PlatinumDeeper governance and formal risk management.
- DiamondThe most comprehensive tier, closest to ISO 27001 territory.
How we run it
One accountable team across the assessment, the remediation and the evidence, so you are not coordinating three suppliers against someone else's deadline.
- Gap assessment against the tier you actually need
- Remediation of the controls that fail, quoted up front
- Evidence pack assembled for the certifying body
- Ongoing maintenance so the certification stays valid
Go deeper
The detail behind the certification
- SMB1001 certification explainedEvery tier, the control domains behind each one, and what the assessment covers.Read more
- SMB1001 vs ISO 27001 vs Essential EightWhich framework answers which question, and where they overlap.Read more
- Essential Eight complianceThe ACSC baseline that most SMB1001 controls sit on top of.Read more
- Cyber insurance readinessWhat insurers ask for at renewal, and how certification changes the conversation.Read more
- Cyber security in BrisbaneThe wider managed security practice behind the certification work.Read more
- Managed IT in BrisbaneDay-to-day support from Brisbane-based engineers, no offshore call centres.Read more
Questions Brisbane businesses ask us
Find out which tier you need
Tell us who has asked you for certification and what they specified. We will tell you the tier that satisfies it and what is realistically involved for a business your size.
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