Cliffside Security

Cliffside is an ISO 27001-certified cybersecurity firm in Sydney, offering penetration testing, compliance, cloud security and virtual CISO services to Australian organisations.

Cliffside is an ISO 27001-certified cybersecurity firm in Sydney whose positioning is brutally honest security advice. Its buyers are executives, risk owners and IT leaders in regulated industries, and they are tired of vendors who sell fear.

The site had to carry that tone, publish transparent pricing, and help very different sectors, from finance and insurance to government and schools, find the services and obligations that apply to them.

I built the site in Astro and served it through Cloudflare, which keeps it extremely fast. The services menu lists each engagement with its price, ISO 27001 compliance, penetration testing from $5,900 and a fixed-price platform review, which is rare in the industry and builds trust immediately.

An industries menu maps each sector to the rules it answers to, such as APRA CPS 234, Essential Eight, IRAP and the Privacy Act. The homepage then makes the argument for defensible decisions, built on evidence, context, ownership and action, rather than selling products.

Proof sits where it counts: the BSI certificate number, a 2026 Benchmark Security Awards finalist listing, a 5.0 Google rating and a library of cornerstone guides that also drive search traffic.