For SaaS businesses in Australia and New Zealand

Test. Assess. Maintain. Your SaaS and Cloud IT.

We test your SaaS products and secure your Microsoft 365 with our managed services. Our Partner plan adds BSO Cloud Essentials: a small-business profile of ASD's Essentials for cloud, so you can show customers your security awareness.

Fixed prices, quoted before work startsNo long contractsAustralian owned and hosted

What we take care of

Your product

Tested end to end before your customers see it
Scanned for vulnerabilities, every day

Your workplace

Microsoft 365 managed services and security monitoring
BSO Cloud Essentials compliance, a verified posture you can show others
“An expert in your corner and a reviewer who treats your product as if it were his own.”
Emilie Ryan, Managing Director, Workplace Automate Pty Ltd
Microsoft AI Cloud Partner ProgramMicrosoft CSP Indirect Reseller

How it works

Two services that work together: software testing for your product, and Microsoft 365 managed security for your IT operations

Website scanning and your Microsoft 365 security become evidence for your BSO Cloud Essentials compliance assessment, so you always know where you stand.

01

Test

Your software product, verified by testing

Every feature and every user role tested before launch, then every release after it.

Software testing

02

Protect

Your software and your cloud workplace

Daily vulnerability scans on your product. Microsoft 365 secured and watched.

Scanner and Microsoft 365 diagnostic

03

Measure

Your posture, assessed

Rated against BSO Cloud Essentials, our small-business profile of ASD's Essentials for cloud.

Microsoft 365 Partner plan

04

Prove

More than a self-assessment, when you need it

Need ISO 27001, ISO 9001 or the full Essentials for cloud? We scope it with you as a project.

Project

Where do you want to start?

Two services, one way of working

Your product

Launch a product your customers can rely on

Every feature tested by experienced people, then every release after launch.

Testing by the day, from a 3-day Launch Check
Monthly release testing
Daily vulnerability scanning

Launch Check from A$3,000

Your workplace

Keep your Microsoft 365 secure and compliant

Set up properly and kept that way, using our own security tools. On the Partner plan, assessed against BSO Cloud Essentials every month.

Tenant set up or taken over
Users, licences and support tickets handled
Settings kept to a published baseline
A verified posture report to show customers
AI tools, including Copilot, governed and set up safely

Security plans from A$100 a month · compliance on Partner from A$500

Coming soon

BSO Cloud Essentials, kept current automatically.

Our platform will take evidence from your website scans and Microsoft 365 diagnostic and update your ratings as you fix things.

Join early access

The path to fully assessed compliance

When a compliance self-review is not enough, our expertise leads the way.

STEP 1

Evidence from your tools

Your scans and Microsoft 365 diagnostic gather evidence, recorded against each BSO Cloud Essentials control in your workbook.

STEP 2

Expert review

We check the evidence, rate what a tool cannot see, and give you a prioritised plan to close the gaps.

STEP 3

Beyond Cloud Essentials

Need ISO 27001, ISO 9001 or the full Essentials for cloud? Talk to us and we scope it as a project.

Free security checks

Two free checks. No account needed.

They look at different things. The website check reads what anyone on the internet can see about your site. The Office IT security checklist asks how your business runs day to day: sign-ins, updates, backups and admin access. Start with either, or do both for a quick first picture.

1 Website check

From the outside · about 10 seconds

How secure is your website?

Six public security signals, from encryption and security headers to email protection. Results appear right here.

A surface check of public signals, not a penetration test. We read your home page and public DNS, as any visitor could, and nothing else. Results are kept for 6 hours so repeat checks are quick.

2 Office IT security checklist

How you work · about 3 minutes

How secure is your office IT?

Around twenty mostly yes-or-no questions across eight areas, from multi-factor sign-in and software updates to backups and admin rights. You get an indicative rating and the gaps to close first.

  • No account and no cost
  • No email needed for your result
  • Based on the security strategies the Australian Signals Directorate recommends
Start the checklist

Want more than a first look? A free account scans one website in full every month, with a score out of 100 and plain-English fixes. Register for the full scan

Andrew McDowell and Martin Cunnington

Who you work with

Real people you can call.

25 years of software testing and a Microsoft partnership, from two people who answer the phone. Andrew manages every project himself and checks what we deliver before it reaches you.

Andrew McDowell

Managing Director

Martin Cunnington

Executive Advisor

What our clients say

Software testing and security review

“Having Andrew come on board for testing and security review gave me real confidence at a point where I needed it most.”
Emilie RyanManaging Director, Workplace Automate Pty Ltd, Western Australia

Website scanner and Microsoft 365 diagnostic

“Have tried a few different sites built in different tooling, great to see how it works across them, loving the tool. Just plugged in our Azure Tenant too to have a look at that.”
Sam BruhnFounder and Principal Developer, USEsoftware · Partner Network member
Try the free website check

Daily updates during every project, and serious issues reported the moment we find them. It is a big part of why our clients rate us so highly. How we work with you