02 November 2026
Guy Coble Named Check Point Partner Security Engineer of the Year for ANZ | S5
S5 Managing Director Guy Coble is Check Point’s 2026 Partner Security Engineer of the Year for ANZ. What the award…
25 October 2026
From the Essential Eight to ASD Essentials: The Transition Guide, Explained
ASD’s new framework does not undo your Essential Eight work. Our free transition guide maps what carries forward, how ratings…
18 October 2026
Selecting an Essential Eight Implementor: Six Checkpoints Before You Sign
A buyer’s checklist for Essential Eight implementor selection. Six checkpoints, anchored to the five-phase program, and how to read an…
17 October 2026
The Essential Eight has a successor. Here’s what changes.
ASD launched ASD Essentials on 15 October 2026. If you’re midway through an Essential Eight program, keep going. Here’s what…
16 October 2026
Reaching Essential Eight Maturity Level 3: Prove the Controls Never Lapse
ML3 asks how well you run the controls, not only what you deployed. Estate-wide coverage, process records, and a 90-day…
15 October 2026
Reaching Essential Eight Maturity Level 2: From Configuration to Discipline
ML2 is where Essential Eight stops being a configuration and starts being an operating discipline. Logging, phishing-resistant MFA, and a…
13 October 2026
Reaching Essential Eight Maturity Level 1: What the Baseline Actually Demands
ML1 is a stronger baseline than its reputation. What the eight strategies demand, what clears the bar in any stack,…
12 October 2026
The Essential Eight Journey: Five Phases to a Defensible Uplift
An adaptation of the S5 whitepaper: the five phases of an Essential Eight uplift program, the evidence hierarchy behind every…
17 June 2026
Post-Quantum Cryptography on Windows Server: What Changed, and What to Do About It
Post-quantum cryptography is now in Windows Server 2025. What ML-KEM, ML-DSA and AD CS mean for your estate, and the…
26 May 2026
From frameworks to drawings: the OT design layer that actually defends
Zones, conduits, Industrial DMZ, Purdue placement. The OT reference architecture that turns IEC 62443 from a standard into a defensible…
20 May 2026
Choosing your OT GRC framework: IEC 62443, NIST CSF, CIRMP and ISO 27019 in an Australian context
For Australian OT operators, IEC 62443, NIST CSF + SP 800-82, ASD CIRMP and ISO 27019 are not competitors. They…
05 May 2026
ISA-95: the structural layer most Australian OT programmes skip
Purdue gets you the network architecture. ISA-95 gives you the functional hierarchy that turns GRC frameworks from a checklist into…
01 May 2026
Miercom 2026 Hybrid Mesh benchmark: what every Australian IT leader should know
Miercom benchmarked every major firewall vendor in 2026. Check Point’s Hybrid Mesh hit 99.79% security effectiveness. Here’s what it means…
30 April 2026
Zero Trust for OT: a US playbook with direct relevance for Australian utilities and councils
On 29 April 2026, CISA, the Department of War, and the Department of Energy (with FBI, the Department of State,…
21 April 2026
S5 Technology Group Announces Strategic Partnership with Darktrace
S5 Technology Group is pleased to announce a new strategic partnership with Darktrace, a global leader in AI-powered cybersecurity. As…
25 March 2026
Critical Cisco Secure Firewall Management Center Vulnerability (CVE-2026-20131, CVSS 10.0)
A newly disclosed critical vulnerability affecting Cisco Secure Firewall Management Center (FMC) has been assigned the maximum CVSS score of 10.0. Tracked as CVE-2026-20131,…
20 February 2026
Announcing Our Partnership with Concentric AI
We are pleased to announce our partnership with Concentric AI, marking an important step forward in how we deliver intelligent,…
10 November 2025
SCADA Security Design – How to Secure OT / ICS Network Environments
Executive Summary This whitepaper outlines a modern SCADA security design aligned to Australia’s Security of Critical Infrastructure Act 2018 (SOCI).…
15 September 2025
S5 Technology Group Named APAC Workspace Security Partner of the Year 2025
S5 Technology Group has been recognised as the Asia Pacific Workspace Security Partner of the Year 2025 by Check Point…
10 November 2023
S5 Technology Group Finalists In the ARN Innovation Awards Security Category
S5 Technology Group are proud to have been announced as finalists in the ARN awards Tech Innovation – Security category. …