The State of Startup
Cybersecurity
: 2026
A founder-level view of cyber risk at Australia's fastest-growing tech companies.
A short, honest read of how Australia's startup and scale-up founders and CTOs are actually thinking about cyber. Built from conversations with operators at all stages of growth, and the attacker-lens we apply to all our work.
It exists because the reports in this space are written for the auditor and paid for by the seller. This one is written for the people making the trade-offs, and is paid for by us.
How do Aussie startups & scale-ups think about cybersecurity?
What are the trigger moments that push cyber to the top of a long list of priorities?
What is keeping founders up at night, compliance or attackers?
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BRACE CYBER is a Melbourne-based attacker-led cybersecurity practice for growth-stage tech companies. We find gaps in your products before attackers do — red-teaming, threat modelling, AI penetration testing. This report is intended to supplement that work to better understand the constraints and levers for building a secure startup.
Written by the founder. Reviewed by the practitioners doing the work. No sponsors, no vendor logos, no paid placements. If it's in the report, it's because someone on the ground said it out loud.