SOVEREIGN AUSTRALIAN CYBER DEFENCE
CYBERSECURITY DONE DIFFERENTLY.
Australia’s cyber landscape is shifting every day — new threats, new technologies, and expanding threat landscapes.
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Shieldmaiden is a female-owned, collaborative and diverse‑thinking cybersecurity company that brings together the best minds in cyber defence. With a customer‑first approach, we design and operate security that fits how your organisation actually works, and evolves as fast as the risks do.
Source: OAIC Notifiable Data Breaches, 2025 calendar year.
We defend Australian enterprises. And we get more women into cybersecurity.
Both. In one contract. It's our foundation, not a footnote - bringing the best minds into the Australian cybersecurity ecosystem.
SOVEREIGN AUSTRALIAN CYBER DEFENCE
Three pillars. One defensive architecture.
01 OFFENSIVE OPERATIONS
Find what an attacker would find, before they do.
Penetration testing. Social engineering and physical security assessments. Cloud, application, API, AI & LLM security testing.
02 GRC & SMART SOURCING
Turn compliance into a position of advantage.
Essentials Series auditing, real-time auditing. ISO 27001, ISO 42001 and NIST roadmaps. Smart technology sourcing to achieve operational excellence and social procurement benefits.Â
03 DEFENSIVE SECURITY
Detection that does not clock off.
Sovereign 24/7 SOC, managed detection and response, PKI/PQC and CLM certs all managed on-shore.
01 / THE PROCESS
From first conversation to defended, compliant and contributing.
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Assess
We baseline your posture against the Essential Eight and map your current stack, your gaps, and your licensing waste.
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Architect
We design a security-by-design roadmap across the three pillars: offensive, governance, defensive.
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Defend
We deliver and operate — testing, 24/7 detection, patching — alongside our tier-1 delivery partners.
Contribute
Your engagement feeds the 20-in-10 mechanism and strengthens your own social procurement position.
THE STRATEGIC ADVANTAGE
Getting more women into cybersecurity is a defence strategy.
Not a values statement. A capability argument about this country's ability to defend itself. Australia defends a growing attack surface from a fraction of available talent. Twenty-two percent of the global cyber workforce is women. You cannot close a gap that size by competing harder for the same candidates.
1.3M
Technology workers needed in Australia by 2030
660K
Women identified as suitable for short-term upskilling
$6.5B
Estimated additional contribution to Australia’s economy THROUGH HIGHER SALARIES
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Australian owned and operated
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Female owned
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CUSTOMER-FIRST APPROACH
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