Accreditation gets you in the door. Someone has to watch it afterwards. We run a 24/7 Security Operations Centre inside your own Microsoft 365 and cloud tenancy — mapped to Essential Eight Maturity Level 2 — so your DISP obligations stay met, evidenced and audit-ready every day of the year.
Independent / runs in your tenancy / Essential Eight ML2 / Brisbane-based
Most defence-supplier security firms do one of two things. The consultancies get you to DISP accreditation and Essential Eight Maturity Level 2, hand over the paperwork, and leave — and from that day you are on your own to actually watch the controls they helped you stand up. The managed security providers will watch something, but they are built for primes and critical infrastructure, or they want you inside their own sovereign cloud or enclave, which simply swaps one lock-in for another.
Nobody productises a managed SOC for the DISP supplier journey itself: continuous monitoring that runs in the environment you already own, sized for a 30-to-200-seat supplier rather than a defence prime, and tied directly to the evidence your annual reporting needs. That is the gap we built this service to fill.
Accreditation is a point in time. Membership is an ongoing obligation. Three things have to hold every day — and they are exactly the things a consulting-only engagement leaves unattended.
Essential Eight Maturity Level 2 is not a one-off audit. Patching windows, application control, macro settings, hardened configuration and multi-factor authentication all have to stay enforced — and drift the moment an admin makes an exception nobody monitors.
DISP membership carries an expectation that you can detect and respond to security incidents, not just prevent them. That means monitoring, logging and a path to triage and containment running continuously — including outside business hours, when most intrusions actually land.
Your annual security reporting and any reassessment rely on evidence you can produce on request: maturity against each Essential Eight control, incidents and how they were handled, and proof the program is actually being run rather than simply documented.
Securitribe runs its own 24/7 Security Operations Centre — this is real delivery, not a referral. We stand the monitoring up inside your Microsoft 365 and cloud, map every detection to Essential Eight Maturity Level 2, and run it as a service so your team can get back to winning and delivering Defence work.
Our own Security Operations Centre watches your environment around the clock — continuous monitoring, triage and a defined response path, run by our analysts, not a ticket queue that wakes up at nine.
MDR across your endpoints and servers: advanced detection backed by current threat intelligence, with containment that stops a foothold becoming an incident before it spreads.
Monitoring and control of the accounts attackers want most — privileged access management, conditional access and identity governance, the area Essential Eight ML2 leans on hardest.
Continuous discovery, prioritisation and tracked remediation of vulnerabilities and missing patches — so the patching and application-control maturity you accredited against stays at level.
Centralised logging and a SIEM tuned so detections and reporting map directly to Essential Eight Maturity Level 2 — every control with eyes on it and an evidence trail behind it.
All of it runs inside your Microsoft 365 and cloud tenancy. No enclave, no sovereign-cloud migration, no data leaving the environment you control. If you ever leave us, the platform and the logs stay with you.
This is the only managed SOC built specifically for DISP defence suppliers that is independent, vendor-agnostic, runs in your own Microsoft 365 or cloud, brings cleared personnel where an engagement truly requires it, and is sized for a supplier rather than a prime.
Not a prime, not foreign-owned, and not reselling a platform we are quietly incentivised to push. We are vendor-agnostic by design and run inside your tenancy — so the risk picture you get is honest, and there is no lock-in dressed up as sovereignty.
For engagements that genuinely require it, we provide cleared personnel. We will not imply a wall of cleared analysts where it isn’t needed — clearance is matched to the work, honestly, rather than used as marketing.
Built for a 30-to-200-seat defence supplier, not a prime. The scope, the cadence and the pricing are sized for an SME that has to meet the same DISP bar as the big players without the same budget or in-house team.
Getting to DISP membership and Essential Eight Maturity Level 2 is a project with an end date. Keeping them is a program with no end date. Most suppliers handle the first part and have nothing for the second.
If you are still working toward accreditation, our DISP Readiness service maps the honest path to membership across governance, personnel, physical and cyber security. This managed SOC is what takes over the day accreditation lands — the same team, carrying the controls forward and watching them so they never quietly slip below the level you worked to reach.
The evidence a defence supplier needs for annual reporting and reassessment is a by-product of running the SOC properly — not a separate exercise. Because we monitor against Essential Eight ML2 every day, the assurance trail accumulates as we go. For how defence-supplier SMEs have approached this, see our case studies.
Maturity against each Essential Eight control, incidents and their handling, and proof the program is being run — captured continuously, so evidence is never a last-minute scramble before a reassessment.
When your annual security reporting comes due, the monitoring data, maturity position and incident record are already assembled. We help you turn what the SOC has been doing all year into the report your DISP obligations expect.
This service is for small and mid-sized businesses in the Defence supply chain — the 30-to-200-seat suppliers, contractors and manufacturers that hold or are pursuing DISP membership and need to keep Essential Eight Maturity Level 2 met without standing up a security team of their own. Defence-adjacent SMEs supplying larger primes and contractors — the kind of supplier that wins work on the strength of its capability, not the size of its security budget.
If that is your business, our defence-adjacent work explains how we approach the sector.
Managed SOC is delivered as a monthly retainer, scoped to your seat count, environment and the obligations you carry. The tiers below are indicative — a scoping call sets the right level and a firm figure for your business. Pricing sits on the same retainer ladder as our DISP Readiness engagements, so moving from readiness to run is a step up, not a restart.
Lower-tier monthly retainer.
Core 24/7 SOC monitoring and SIEM mapped to Essential Eight ML2, running in your own Microsoft 365 — for a smaller supplier that needs the controls watched and the evidence captured.
Mid-tier monthly retainer.
Everything in Essentials plus managed detection and response, identity and privileged access monitoring, and vulnerability management — the full managed SOC for an established defence supplier.
Upper-tier monthly retainer.
The Managed tier plus annual assurance and reporting support, and cleared personnel where an engagement requires it — for suppliers with the heaviest DISP and reporting obligations.
To show what the service looks like in practice, here is a representative engagement — drawn from the kind of work we do with defence-supply-chain SMEs. Representative of a typical engagement; client details generalised.
Picture a defence-supply-chain manufacturer that had just achieved DISP readiness and Essential Eight Maturity Level 2 with a consultant, and then needed to keep it — with no security team of its own and no appetite for handing its environment to a prime or migrating into someone else’s enclave.
The controls were stood up but nobody was watching them day to day. Patching, application control and privileged access could drift the moment an admin made an undocumented exception, and annual reporting was looming with no continuous evidence behind it. The supplier wanted the controls kept at level — independently, and inside the environment it already owned.
We stood up continuous monitoring in their own Microsoft 365 tenancy — no enclave, no data leaving the environment they control — with our own 24/7 SOC handling detection, triage and response, a SIEM tuned to map each Essential Eight control to evidence, and identity and vulnerability monitoring alongside. Vendor-agnostic throughout, with cleared personnel brought in only where the work genuinely required them.
The Essential Eight maturity they had worked to reach stayed at level rather than quietly slipping, and the evidence for their annual security reporting was packaged from what the SOC had been doing all year — not assembled in a last-minute scramble. The supplier kept full ownership of its platform and logs, and its small team got back to delivering Defence work instead of minding security controls.
We run our own 24/7 Security Operations Centre — this is real, in-house capability, not a referral or a reseller arrangement. It is the credibility most SME-facing competitors in this space cannot offer.
Yours. We stand the monitoring up inside your own Microsoft 365 and cloud tenancy. There is no enclave to migrate into and no sovereign-cloud lock-in — and if you ever leave us, the platform and the logs stay with you.
For engagements that genuinely require it, we provide cleared personnel. We are careful not to imply a wall of cleared analysts where the work doesn’t call for it — clearance is matched honestly to the engagement rather than used as marketing.
Securitribe is working toward DISP membership. In the meantime we work with defence-supplier SMEs on meeting and keeping their own DISP obligations, and bring cleared personnel to engagements that require them. We’re happy to discuss our current posture and timeline directly on a scoping call.
DISP Readiness is the consulting engagement that gets you to membership and Essential Eight Maturity Level 2. This managed SOC is what runs afterwards — the same team carrying the controls forward and monitoring them so they stay at level. Readiness gets you in; the SOC keeps you there.
Our SIEM and detections are tuned so each Essential Eight control has monitoring and an evidence trail behind it. As we run, we accumulate the maturity evidence your annual reporting and any reassessment will ask for.
No. We add the security monitoring and response layer alongside your existing IT, MSP or in-house team — we are vendor-agnostic and built to work with what you already run, not to displace it.
It is built for SMEs — typically 30-to-200-seat defence suppliers. The scope, cadence and pricing are sized for a supplier that has to meet the same DISP bar as a prime without the same budget or in-house security team.
Book a DISP SOC scoping call and we’ll size a managed SOC for your environment, your seat count and the obligations you carry — running in your own tenancy, mapped to Essential Eight ML2, sized for an SME. Brisbane-based; call 1300 271 407.
