Horizon3 and Deloitte Australia partner on cybersecurity play

Cybersecurity company Horizon3 has announced an alliance with Deloitte in Australia to help organisations strengthen cyber resilience through continuous, attacker-validated security assurance.

The partnership combines Horizon3’s NodeZero proactive security platform to respond to AI-accelerated vulnerabilities with Deloitte’s cyber strategy, transformation, resilience, and managed services capabilities.

The two organisations will support enterprises moving beyond point-in-time assessments and theoretical risk scoring by identifying what attackers can actually exploit, prioritising the exposures that matter most, and verifying that remediation efforts are reducing real risk.

The joint approach is designed to help clients understand exploitable risk in business terms, improve prioritisation across security and IT teams, support resilience and transformation programs with continuous validation, and verify that remediation efforts are working overtime.

“Organisations across Australia and New Zealand do not need more cyber noise. They need proof,” said Gareth Cox, vice president of sales for APJ at Horizon3.

“By combining Deloitte’s strategic advisory and delivery strength with Horizon3’s ability to safely discover exposure, prioritise based on impact and remediate with clarity, we can help executive leaders make faster, better-informed security decisions, reduce risk and demonstrate measurable resilience over time.”

Liz Douglass, partner and cyber lead at Deloitte Australia, said in an increasingly dynamic threat environment, organisations need more than periodic assurance exercises - they need continuous, evidence-based insight into where they are exposed and how to strengthen resilience.

"Our partnership with Horizon3 expands our ability to help clients translate attacker-perspective validation into practical action across strategy, operations, and transformation,” she said.

“Horizon3 provides evidence of real exposure through attacker-perspective validation, and Deloitte helps clients translate that evidence into action, operating change, and sustained cyber resilience,” Cox added. “That is what makes this alliance meaningful for executive leaders.”