Adelaide & South Australia
Most of our on-site work is across the Adelaide CBD, the eastern and inner-southern suburbs, and wherever else your office happens to be. Travel beyond metro Adelaide is quoted transparently as part of the engagement.
About Adeo · The firm
Adelaide, Australia
An independent IT advisory for Australian businesses.
Adeo exists to address a specific gap in Australian professional services: small and mid-sized businesses paying an MSP every month, satisfied with the service, yet unable to answer the board-level questions about what that money is actually buying — in quality of work, in commercial discipline, in readiness for an insurer or a regulator.
The gap is not with the MSP. The gap is with independent oversight of the MSP — someone whose only job is to measure what is being delivered, across service quality, commercial discipline, roadmap, and security, and report plainly. Adeo exists in that gap. It is deliberately narrow: we audit, we advise, we oversee. We do not run systems. We do not resell licences. We do not take commissions. The boundary is written into every engagement letter we issue.
The closest analogue is the external financial auditor — independent of the operator, answerable only to the client, measured in manner because the job is oversight rather than alarm. Information technology needs the same figure. For most Australian SMEs, it does not yet have one.
Adelaide is the deliberate home base. The majority of our work is South Australian, delivered on the ground; remote engagements across Australia are available on request, with the same delivery standards and neutrality intact either way.
Measured. On your side. Does not panic.
That is the sentence the firm is built to earn — after the first Baseline, and every month after.
See the shape of the work across a Quick-Scan, a Baseline, and a retainer →
II. The stance
Oversight, not operations.
We are not
- ×A managed service provider
- ×A product reseller
- ×A cybersecurity vendor
- ×A Big Four consultancy
- ×A help desk or operator
We are
- ✓Independent of MSPs, working alongside them
- ✓Unaligned with any vendor — no commissions
- ✓An advisor who audits, not a tool that defends
- ✓Adelaide-based, independently-owned, accessibly priced
- ✓Oversight-only — we never touch keyboards in production
III. The practice
How we work.
Every engagement is led personally by the principal, end to end. Evidence is collected from your own systems — via authenticated API reads where platforms support them, and via documents you supply for contracts, invoices, tickets, and policy artefacts. Nothing is outsourced to third-party monitoring tools. Reports are drafted, reviewed, and signed off under the Adeo name.
Our working methodology is mapped against published standards — Essential Eight, ISO/IEC 27001, NIST CSF, CIS Controls, and the control sets of the major Australian cyber insurers. Every finding we publish is cross-walked to at least one of these, so the evidence is re-usable wherever you need it next.
What distinguishes us is not the frameworks — anyone can cite those. It is independence — no reselling, no commissions, no operational role — paired with a disciplined delivery that produces audit-grade evidence in less time than traditional firms take. You see the difference in the timeline, not in the marketing.
- Methodology
- ACSC Essential Eight, ISO/IEC 27001:2022, NIST CSF 2.0, CIS Controls v8
- Practice experience
- Over a decade of professional practice in cybersecurity and infrastructure
- Typical engagement
- 5-day Quick-Scan · 2-week Baseline Audit · monthly retainer
- Direct correspondence
- contact@adeo.au
IV. Where we work
Adelaide in person. Australia by secure video.
Across Australia
Remote engagements are available Australia-wide from day one. Evidence is collected from your own systems — via authenticated API reads where available, and via documents you supply for contracts and invoices. Interviews happen by secure video, and the first thirty-minute conversation is always video — regardless of location — because it saves everyone's time.
The delivery standards and neutrality guardrails are identical whether the engagement is in-person or remote. The document at the end looks the same either way.
Next step
Ready to talk.
Thirty minutes, no cost, no sales script. If we are not the right fit, we will say so plainly. We reply to every enquiry within one business day.
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