Most cybersecurity providers sell you a product, or a project, or an opinion.
We sell a membership.
Serious cybersecurity, built for the people everyone else forgets about — solo professionals and small teams of 1–5 who run real businesses from a laptop.
For decades, small business cybersecurity has come in three flavours.
You could buy a product. Norton, McAfee, basic Windows security. Install it. Hope it’s configured correctly. Hope you remembered everything else.
You could hire an MSP. Pay $150–$250 per person per month for comprehensive managed IT and security, then a separate engagement for an Essential 8 review on top. Built for businesses with budgets and headcounts. Not built for you.
You could read free government advice. The Small Business Cyber Resilience Service is real and genuinely useful. The ASD publishes the Essential 8. The Cyber Wardens program offers free training. They’ll help you plan — but they don’t install CrowdStrike on your laptop or run an immutable backup of your jobs, quotes, and client files.
Solo operators and businesses of 1–5 people were left in the gap. Too small for an MSP to price fairly. Too busy running the business to design, deploy and monitor their own security stack. Too professional to leave protection to hope.
We built the membership that fills the gap.
One flat monthly fee. Enterprise-grade tools — CrowdStrike Falcon, deployed and watched on your behalf, not handed to you to figure out. Immutable bare-metal backups that ransomware cannot touch. Ongoing plain-English guidance on the ASD Essential 8 framework. And WISE ASSIST on demand — a senior cybersecurity expert at fixed pricing, from $60, when you need to talk to someone who already knows your setup.
Hand-delivered. Not handed-off. From $59 a month.
Enterprise-grade protection, without the enterprise overhead.
Built specifically for solo operators and 1–5 person teams in Australia. One of the only providers we’re aware of combining this stack as a flat-fee membership for businesses this size. We don’t price for businesses that have grown past you.
This isn’t a quarterly check-in business.
Everything you need to stay protected runs live, in the background, all the time.
Live threat detection
CrowdStrike Falcon doesn’t sleep, doesn’t take weekends, doesn’t wait for an appointment. If something tries to land on your device, we know.
Live backup status
Your immutable bare-metal backup runs continuously. We monitor whether it’s healthy, whether it’s complete, whether anything looks off — without you having to ask.
Cyber tools, the moment they exist
When we add a new tool to your membership stack, it shows up. No upgrade pitch, no upsell email, no “premium tier”. You get it because you’re a member.
Essential 8 guides, the moment they’re updated
The framework evolves. So does our guidance. The Cyber Toolkit reflects current practice — not whatever was true in the brochure from 2022.
WISE ASSIST on demand
A senior cybersecurity expert at fixed pricing, from $60. Not a ticket queue. Not a chatbot. Someone who already knows your setup.
Other providers schedule cybersecurity. We run it.
What this actually looks like in real life.
The architecture firm.
A five-person studio in suburban Sydney. Fifteen years in business, a loyal client base, and hundreds of active drawings and small projects moving through the office every year.
One staff member clicked a link in what looked like a normal business email. Ransomware spread through the local environment and locked the files on the office server. The business had backups, but no one had checked whether they were actually working. No cyber insurance. No clean recovery path. No spare cash to meet the demand.
The business shut its doors. Not because they were unprofitable. Not because they ran out of clients. Because one click turned into a total operational failure.
The real estate agency.
A ten-person commercial real estate practice. Busy office, lots of trust-based relationships, rent rolls, invoices, and money moving every day.
Someone clicked a malicious link, and the attackers didn’t make noise straight away. They sat inside the systems for months, learning how the business worked, harvesting passwords, and watching billing cycles. Then they changed every rental invoice for a month so the payments went to their bank account instead.
By the time it was discovered, more than a million dollars had gone. They had insurance, and they survived. But it still took roughly three months to get day-to-day operations back to normal, rebuild trust, and put proper controls in place.
The legal team.
A small practice. Tight team, confidential files, and zero room for extended downtime.
A malicious email link gave attackers access to the business, and they eventually encrypted the machines. The firm tried to restore from backup, only to discover the attackers had already logged into the online backup platform and deleted the recoverable copies.
The team flattened servers, PCs, and laptops and spent two exhausting weeks rebuilding from scratch. Then they were hit again. The attackers had left malicious code behind in network infrastructure, so the firm was re-ransomed after the first rebuild. The hardest cost wasn’t the ransom. It was the lost time, lost momentum, staff strain, and the reality that normal work simply stopped.
The good outcome.
This is the part most providers skip: the best cyber story is often the one that never becomes a disaster.
Across the businesses we protect, attempted attacks are regularly stopped before they become business-ending events. Malicious activity is detected fast. The affected device is isolated. The problem is contained before encryption spreads. When we have needed to restore from backup, it’s usually for ordinary business reasons — a lost laptop, a stolen device — not because an attacker managed to take the business down.
That’s the difference between having software and having a cyber resilience plan.
Examples are based on real incidents from over two decades of protecting Australian small businesses. Identifying details have been changed for privacy.
Here’s the maths.
| What you need | Consumer AV or self-managed Defender | Local MSP / IT company | Free government services | WISECLICK |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Enterprise-grade EDR — deployed and watched for you | You’re on your own | Usually included; depends on tier | Not provided | CrowdStrike Falcon, managed |
| Immutable backup (ransomware-proof) | Cloud backup, not immutable | Sometimes, extra cost | Not provided | Up to 1TB included |
| Essential 8 framework guidance | Not provided | From $1,000–$3,000 for an SMB review | Free self-assessment | Ongoing, plain-English |
| Plain-English advice when you need it | Marketing copy only | Billable hours | Advisory only | WISE ASSIST — fixed price from $60 |
| Setup done for you | Self-install | Project-billed | Not provided | Hand-delivered |
| Built for 1–5 person businesses | Generic consumer/SMB | Per-seat, scales aggressively | 1–19 employees, generic | This is who we exist for |
| Australian-specific (ASD Essential 8) | Global product | Yes, enterprise focus | Yes, government | Sydney-based, ASD-aligned |
| Typical monthly cost (solo operator) | $8–$25 (product license) | $150–$250/user + extras | Free | $59 flat |
Pricing references verified May 2026 against publicly listed Australian MSP and security vendor pricing. Microsoft Defender for Business is a capable EDR platform — the gap for 1–5 person businesses isn’t the tool, it’s having someone deploy, configure, monitor and respond on your behalf. Free government services include the Small Business Cyber Resilience Service (delivered by IDCARE), the ASD Cyber Security Partnership Program, and Cyber Wardens.
Is this for you?
WISECLICK is built for you if:
- You run a business of 1–5 people
- You earn your living from a laptop — Microsoft 365, Google, Xero, Shopify, or similar
- You can’t afford a week of downtime, locked-out accounts, or lost client files
- You’d rather have someone deploy and watch your protection than be your own IT department
WISECLICK is probably not for you if:
- You have an internal IT team or 20+ seats — you’re past our pricing sweet spot
- You want to manage every tool and policy yourself — we deliver, we don’t hand-off
- You’re looking for the cheapest possible product license — there are cheaper options
Our job is to be exactly right for the segment we serve, not to be everything to everyone.
We’re always building in new stuff — quietly, constantly, and without breaking things. You’ll just notice things get better.
Two ways to start.
If you’re not sure where you stand, take the 30-minute Ransomware Readiness Check. $149. Plain-English advice. No jargon.
Already know your gaps? See membership options →
Because staying safe online shouldn’t be a second job.
Quietly. Affordably. Without the fuss.