FOR MANAGED SERVICE PROVIDERS
Defence in depth — for you, and for your clients.
Your MSP relationship with your clients is built on trust and day-to-day reliability. Hardrock Cyber stands behind that work — independently verifying cyber posture, identifying gaps, and providing the senior-level expertise that rounds out your managed service offering.
TWO WAYS WE WORK WITH MSPS
One partnership, two ways in.
Whether your clients are asking for proof, or you want an independent read on your own delivery — the engagement is the same, and it never touches your managed-service revenue.
For MSPs whose clients need independent verification
Your clients increasingly face requirements a managed service alone can’t answer:
Insurance renewals that demand documented, verified cyber evidence
Prime contractors requiring an independent audit before onboarding suppliers
Clients asking for third-party proof that their security is actually working
We provide the independent assessment layer your managed service can’t — without competing for your revenue. We measure and report; you keep delivering and remediating.
For MSPs verifying their own client environments
Some MSPs bring us in proactively, right across their client base:
As a quality layer — catch gaps in your own delivery before your clients do
As a proposal differentiator — offer independent validation as part of onboarding
As defence in depth — a specialist cyber partner alongside your core service
The framing we use with your clients: your MSP keeps systems running; we work alongside them so the latest cyber-posture techniques are always available to your business.
THE DIFFERENCE WE MAKE
Your platform protects and monitors. We independently prove it.
Platforms like Guardz, Coro and Microsoft Defender are built to protect, monitor, patch and respond. Day to day, they do that well.
What they don’t produce is independent, framework-based validation of what’s actually in place. That’s the layer we add — measured against the standards your clients ask about, with evidence behind every finding, and never a managed service we’d sell you instead.
Independent by definition
It’s third-party validation, not a self-assessment. Your clients get proof from someone who doesn’t run the environment day to day.
Board- and insurer-ready evidence
Control-by-control scoring, certification-grade evidence and plain-English reporting that operational tooling doesn’t generate.
Catches what monitoring misses
Config drift, half-finished controls and shifting framework expectations that real-time dashboards quietly step past.
Your team stays on the revenue work
We carry the assessment and reporting; your engineers stay on the managed services and remediation your clients pay for.
A commercial edge
Independent evidence strengthens tenders, smooths insurance renewals and deepens client trust — a reason to choose you, and to stay.
FRAMEWORKS WE ASSESS AGAINST
The standards your clients are actually being asked for.
Most assessors specialise in one framework. We cover the ones Australian businesses face today — and the emerging ones they’ll face next.
BASELINE
Essential Eight
The ASD baseline. Maturity-level assessment across all eight mitigation strategies, each finding tied to evidence.
CERTIFICATION
SMB1001 readiness
Tiered certification readiness for small and medium business — scoped, scored, and prepared for the certifying body.
INDUSTRIAL
OT / ICS & IoT
Specialist audits for operational technology, industrial control systems and connected devices — where a breach turns physical.
EMERGING
Post-quantum (PQC)
A forward look at cryptographic exposure, as ‘harvest-now, decrypt-later’ risk moves from theory to planning.
INSURANCE
Cyber insurance readiness
Evidence packaged the way underwriters price it — MFA, backups, patching, endpoint and governance.
DEFENCE
DISP & supply chain
Defence Industry Security Program readiness and the independent evidence prime contractors ask suppliers for.
WHY MSPs WORK WITH US
A partner, not a competitor.
We never sell managed services
No conflict of interest and no competing agenda. Independence is the product — our recommendations reflect only what’s best for the client.
Senior-led, personally
Every engagement is delivered by a senior consultant. The person who scopes the work is the person who does it — no junior hand-off.
We stand beside you, not above
Co-branded handover, framed as working with your MSP. The client relationship stays firmly yours.
You keep the ongoing work
A referral commission on the first engagement; all remediation and managed work remains with you.
Clear framing for the client
We explain our role plainly — working with your MSP to strengthen what you deliver, never around you.
HOW WE FRAME IT WITH YOUR CLIENTS
Your MSP keeps your systems running. We stand behind that work — so the latest in cyber-posture technique is always available to you and your business.
GETTING STARTED
Start with a conversation.
We’re here to help, not to chase partners. If you have a need — or simply want to explore where independent assessment could strengthen the value you offer your clients — reach out, and we’ll take it from there.
