About Us

Foundations

Callum Golding founded CSP after two decades of experience in the IT industry. Over the previous decade, he advocated and deployed Microsoft cloud technology and transformed businesses into secure, mobile, and modern workplaces. This helped key stakeholders boost cybersecurity compliance by following the Essential Eight, Zero Trust, and NIST frameworks, and empowered employees to collaborate securely. With this success in mind, he founded CSP and began building a team of like-minded cyber and cloud experts that could help many more organizations realize the full potential of Microsoft’s cloud ecosystem and remain secure and compliant along the way.

Ethos

CSP believes that strong lasting relationships are built on trust and integrity, a product of straightforward and honest conversations.

CSP takes a scientific and phased approach to every engagement. First, conducting trial and error research in the lab, followed soon thereafter by randomized trials, and culminating in production-wide approval and deployment. This helps our clients rapidly uplift their environments and respond swiftly to cyber threats as they emerge.

The first principle of medicine (and IT) is ‘First, do no harm’. Knee-jerk reactions produce more harm than good so CSP ensures preparation is taken at every stage. When it comes to your data, CSP puts a consistent emphasis on the CIA triad; Confidentiality | Integrity | Availability

Eliminate, Simplify, Protect 

We help organizations consolidate their complex licensing structure and eliminate disparate and unnecessary IT products. This cuts patchwork solution costs by up to 60%.

We simplify IT workflows and reduce device management overhead. This lets you focus on higher-value activities such as defense and response. Leveraging automation, modern update services, and device provisioning technologies, such as Autopatch and Autopilot, we reduce device management by as much as 25%.

By leveraging the Microsoft E5 Security license (world leader in extended detection and response security solutions, “XDR”), we protect the digital worker at every layer. We focus on Zero Trust and the Essential Eight frameworks and this approach integrates and optimizes six key areas: identity, devices, apps, infrastructure, data, and network. This can reduce data breach risk by as much as 50%.

Realizing substantial returns on investment necessitates a proactive and forward-thinking outlook to managing, governing, and supporting the Modern Workplace. Our mission is to empower our clients to do more with less and unlock the full potential of cloud technology while safeguarding their digital estate.

Team

Callum Golding | Founder & Security Architect

Callum has 15+ years of experience working in IT. He founded CSP to provide cybersecurity and Microsoft cloud management services to small, medium and large organizations throughout Australia. CSP now delivers a range of “lighthouse” support services and is also a reseller of the world-leading compromise assessment scanner, Thor.  Callum also provides subject matter expertise consulting to organizations across the globe.

Jacinta Ribény | Executive Assistant

Jacinta is a former elite gymnast and fitness instructor and currently studying Journalism and Creative Writing at Adelaide University. Her Modern Workplace research and marketing skills are invaluable to the CSP team. Jacinta manages all this while caring for toddler and completing her university degree. Superwoman!

Aldrin Castillo | Microsoft 365 Specialist

Aldrin is our Cybersecurity and Modern Workplace ninja. He has over five years of experience providing outstanding support and Subject Matter Expertise for Windows, Microsoft 365 & Mobile Device Management. Aldrin also plays a crucial role within our MDR Lighthouse security team, providing initial triage and investigation and setting up E5 Defender solutions in alignment with the Essential Eight. He is certified as a Microsoft Security Analyst (SC-200).

Shivam | Threat hunter & Incident Response SME

Shivam is a Microsoft Valued Professional (MVP) and has obtained SC-200 and AZ-500 Microsoft qualifications. He provides CSP with Threat Hunting and Intelligence as well as Incident Response. He is a Passionate Information Security professional with rich and insightful 10+ years of experience with SOC and Threat Hunting. He performs research on Red Team techniques, threat hunting, and implementing advanced security use cases for proactive defense against cyber threats using Microsoft E5 security suite and KQL Advanced Hunting.

Jackie Ireland | Operations Manager

Jackie has 30+ years of experience working with a variety of technology companies. She helps CSP continue to run as efficiently and effectively as possible using a wide range of SaaS automation and integration tools. As the backbone of operations, she helps oversee our 24/7 global MDR service and ensures our SOC team has all the resources they need in their daily fight against cybercrime.

Corey Wilson | Cybersecurity Analyst

Corey is currently studying for a Bachelor of Networking and Cybersecurity at the University of South Australia. He enjoys researching the latest attacks in Cyberspace and learning new mitigation strategies for responding to emerging threats. Corey has been leveraging the Essential Eight framework and learning various network analysis skills during his studies. He is excited to put these skills into action in his first cybersecurity role with CSP.

Tom Penfold | Senior Microsoft 365 Engineer

Tom is CSP’s Senior Microsoft 365 Engineer. He brings a wealth of knowledge to the entire team and supports them as an escalation point. Tom is a Microsoft security and productivity expert and has obtained the AZ-104 Microsoft Azure Administrator qualification. His subject matter expertise, and an incredible eye for high-quality documentation, ensure that our internal and client Knowledge Base is of the highest standard possible.

Partners

Adam Nye | Networking Specialist
Founder of Spoon Tech

Adam is founder of Spoon Technologies and trusted partner to CSP. He’s a Solutions architect and engineer with 18 years experience in critical infrastructure. Managed global IT environments, with a strong focus on cyber security, automation, Linux/UNIX, network and compute infrastructure.
Designed and built mission-critical systems within. health, oil and gas, and defence sectors.

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