About us
We are Australia and New Zealand's leading cybersecurity technologists.
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About us
By combining our deep understanding of Australia and New Zealand's threat landscape with robust engineering capabilities, we're capable of delivering permanent solutions to your toughest security challenges.
Our clients include major banks, tech unicorns, critical infrastructure providers, and federal government departments.
Our technology choices and recommendations are grounded in firsthand experience. We only endorse tools and technologies that we use ourselves.
We work with organisations to achieve excellence in their Security Operations Center (SOC), threat intelligence and fraud teams by enhancing capabilities, engineering novel solutions and integrations, strengthening teams and defences, and championing best-in-class practices.
Our ultimate goal is to help our clients establish a culture of excellence in cybersecurity.
The story behind Cosive
2015
Cosive is co-founded by industry veterans Kayne Naughton, Terry MacDonald, and Chris Horsley.
2016
Cosive begins a long tradition of speaking and keynoting at major cybersecurity events, including AusCERT, Black Hat Asia, CyberCon, Linux.conf.au, and NZITF.
2019
The team launches three in-house products into the market: Smokeproxy, Phishfeeder and Antifraud.
2022
Cosive launches CloudMISP, a managed MISP service.
2024
Cosive launches MalwareZoo, a private malware repository.
Our approach
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Integrity
We always act with integrity, both internally and when working with clients.
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Transparency
We are transparent with clients and with each other.
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Technical excellence
We build systems and software that are secure, robust, and maintainable.
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Put clients first
We always act in the best interests of our clients, even when it means a smaller paycheck for us.
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Speak from experience
We only recommend tools, solutions and practices we've used ourselves.
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Our regions
Australia
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New Zealand
