Brennan completes integration of CBR Cyber

One year after acquiring Canberra-based CBR Cyber, Brennan has completed its integration into the company.

As part of the completed integration, the CBR Cyber brand will be retired, with its people in Canberra and their capabilities now operating as Brennan.

Brennan says it is now able to offer its customers a single contracting and delivery partner with proven federal government experience in the Canberra market, backed by national scale across managed infrastructure, systems integration and cybersecurity.

The Managing Director and Founder of Brennan, Dave Stevens, said that bringing CBR Cyber into the business had further strengthened the security of Brennan’s systems integration and managed infrastructure services.

“As a result of being able to deliver on the growing demand for sovereign and secure services, we have experienced an uplift in services revenues,” he said. “This growth includes supporting six federal government agencies with a combination of cybersecurity and managed services.

“While government and critical infrastructure, defence-adjacent sectors and APRA-regulated industries are driving the shift to onshore cyber solutions, we are seeing an increase in organisations rethinking where and how their cyber capability operates.

“For many, even those not required by regulation, that means bringing it back onshore with a truly sovereign provider.”

Stevens said the shift to localised cybersecurity services by non-regulated sectors was being driven by a heightened focus on supply chain risk, with organisations requiring greater certainty over where data is stored, who has access to it and how quickly incidents can be detected and contained.

“The Australian Cyber Security Centre has reported a 13% increase in cybercrime reports year-on-year, reinforcing the scale and frequency of threats facing Australian organisations,” he said. “There’s far less tolerance for limited visibility and control. This reflects a broader move away from fragmented vendor environments, with organisations increasingly seeking a single provider capable of delivering integrated services with security embedded at the core.”

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