Foundational service

Secure Business Starter — fix the fundamentals first.

Designed for organizations that need the essential layers of cyber maturity in place before ongoing monitoring or broader governance work makes sense.

New business setup or existing business remediation

Best for

Choose this when the business needs the baseline put in place or cleaned up before ongoing monitoring becomes useful.

New businesses that want identity, email, and domain basics set up correctly from day one
Existing environments with obvious trust, access, or email-security gaps that need remediation
Teams that want a cleaner baseline before deciding on ongoing monitoring or governance support

Foundational service One-time baseline work

What gets covered

What Secure Business Starter works on first

The focus is to remove obvious weaknesses quickly and leave the business with a cleaner, more trustworthy operating base.

Identity & account security firstProtect admin access, improve MFA coverage, and tighten account ownership before risk compounds.
Email fraud reductionReduce spoofing and phishing exposure with practical fixes to business email and authentication controls.
Internet-facing posture improvementsAddress domain, DNS, TLS, and public-facing trust issues that customers and attackers both see.
Assessment-led remediationTurn the assessment findings into a clear set of actions that can actually be completed.
Ready for the next tierLeave with a cleaner baseline and a clearer decision about whether ongoing visibility is needed next.

Delivery paths

Choose the right starting point

The service can be delivered as a clean-slate setup for a new business or as focused remediation for an existing business.

Fresh setup

New Business

For new businesses that want the original Secure Business Starter scope implemented correctly from the beginning.

Business-ready setup plan covering accounts, email, domain, DNS, and website basics
Microsoft 365 or Google Workspace configured with sensible security defaults
User onboarding, role structure, and MFA-enabled access pathways
Domain, DNS, and certificate setup aligned to trust and resilience
A cleaner operational baseline before the business begins to scale

Assessment-led remediation

Existing Business

For businesses with an existing environment that need the key issues from the assessment resolved in a practical, prioritized way.

Identity and MFA hardening where the business is most exposed
SPF, DKIM, and DMARC review plus remediation actions
Fixes to domain, TLS, website, and other public exposure weaknesses
A practical remediation plan focused on the issues that matter first
A clearer baseline from which monitoring or governance work can continue

Business outcomes

What this changes for the business

Secure Business Starter should reduce avoidable operational and trust risk before the business invests in broader ongoing services.

What changes for the business

This tier is about creating a safer starting position: fewer obvious weaknesses, better control over business-critical accounts, and more confidence in email and internet-facing trust.

Reduced trust-risk exposureCustomers, suppliers, and staff are less exposed to avoidable identity, email, and website trust failures.
Cleaner day-to-day operationsAccount ownership, access setup, and baseline administration become less ad hoc and easier to manage.
More practical risk reductionThe business addresses high-value foundational fixes before complexity and scale make them harder to unwind.
Clear next-step decisionLeadership can make a more informed call on whether to stop at the baseline or move into Secure Monitor or Secure360.

Pricing

Choose the pricing path that matches whether you are starting clean or remediating an existing setup.

Need help choosing setup vs remediation?

We can confirm whether the work is closer to a fresh implementation or a cleanup of an existing environment once we understand the current systems in place.

Scope	Price
New Business setup	AUD $980+
Existing Business remediation	AUD $680+

Prices shown in AUD (excluding GST).

Pricing depends on whether the work is a fresh setup or remediation of an existing environment after assessment findings are reviewed. Ongoing visibility and governance are handled under Secure Monitor and Secure360.

Third-party / customer-owned costs

Item	Reference cost
Domain name	AUD $20 – $60 / year
Microsoft 365 / Google Workspace	AUD $10 – $40 / user / month
Backup service	AUD $3 – $10 / user / month
Website hosting	AUD $20 – $200+ / month
SSL certificate	Usually Free
Cloud hosting (AWS / Azure / GCP)	Usage-based

These costs remain under customer ownership and are paid directly to the relevant providers.

Ready to get the baseline in order?

Tell us whether this is a new-business setup or an existing environment that needs remediation, and we will help scope the most useful starting point.

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Contivis services provide practical cybersecurity visibility, monitoring and recommendations. No service can guarantee prevention of phishing attacks, credential compromise, malware infection, business email compromise or unauthorised system access.