About Biz Secure Online

We test software, and we secure it.

An Australian software quality assurance and IT security firm. We make SaaS products production ready, keep them and your Microsoft 365 secure, and help you prove it to the customers who ask.

Who you would be dealing with

The team

Andrew McDowell

Andrew McDowell

Managing Director

Andrew has built and run software testing and engineering consultancies since 2009. He co-founded spriteCloud, a Dutch software testing consultancy, and led its Performance and Security group across performance testing, penetration testing, QA and DevOps-aligned testing. At Biz Secure Online he manages every project himself and checks what we deliver before it reaches you. Based on the Gold Coast.

Martin Cunnington

Martin Cunnington

Executive Advisor

Martin has spent decades in software quality assurance, agile testing and complex digital delivery, in senior QA and operational leadership roles at international digital agencies and technology companies. At Biz Secure Online he advises on delivery frameworks and operational excellence, and works with our clients in the United Kingdom. Based in South London.

Twenty years of testing other people's software

Andrew co-founded spriteCloud, a Dutch software testing consultancy, and ran its Performance and Security group: performance testing, penetration testing, QA, DevOps-aligned testing and monitoring. Martin spent decades in software quality assurance and digital delivery.

All work is managed locally by Andrew. He is the project manager and senior technical resource on every project, and personally quality-checks what we deliver before it reaches you.

What we do

Two services, one team

Your product

Software testing

Functional, exploratory, load and performance testing, then continuous vulnerability testing after launch. We also build with AI development tools, so AI-built systems are familiar ground.

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Your workplace

Microsoft 365 and compliance

Managed security and support using our own diagnostic, and on the Partner plan your BSO Cloud Essentials compliance assessment. We work alongside your IT provider, who keeps devices and on-site support. For ISO 27001 and other standards, we scope a project with you.

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Some of this we deliver ourselves and some with Cybershield Technologies, our security testing partner. We tell you which is which. Everything is scoped and quoted in a conversation before it starts.

Credentials

What we hold

Essential Eight Assessment Course

Designed by ASD's ACSC and delivered by TAFE Queensland. Completed and passed 10 July 2026. You can check the certificate rather than take our word for it.

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ASD does not certify individual Essential Eight assessors. Assessments are informed by the ASD Essential Eight Assessment Process Guide.

AI Review and Governance

Currently studying the 11287NAT Diploma of Artificial Intelligence with TAFE Queensland (expected to complete in January 2027).

Our service and solutions home

Australian owned and hosted

Biz Secure Online is owned and run by Gallivanter Australia Pty Ltd, and the whole platform runs in Australian data centres: scanning, the compliance database, your reports and the evidence attached to them. Security evidence is a record of your weaknesses, so where it sits is worth caring about.