SecMatters signs Coliban Water for SOC and SIEM services

Coliban Water, which provides essential water and wastewater services to communities across north-central Victoria, has inked a deal with SecMatters for SOC and SIEM services.

SecMatters - launched last year by Digital Resilience, a boutique provider of cybersecurity and risk management advisory services - offers client-owned SOCs, real-time monitoring, integrated threat intelligence, advanced threat detection, custom playbooks and SOAR, quarterly reporting and strategic reviews, red teaming and health checks, compliance mapping, and forensic investigation and incident response.

The company also counts organisations including Eldercare, Haven Home Safe and SANE Australia in its client roster, as well as clients across mining, healthcare, community services, utilities and other regulated sectors.

The company has also appointed Chintan Patel as its Adelaide-based security operations lead to support the organisation’s ongoing growth.

Patel joins from the Northern Adelaide Local Health Network, where he held the role of digital operations lead and supported the delivery of critical healthcare services.

Phillip Souter, director at SecMatters, said Patel's appointment forms part of the company’s broader investment in SOC maturity, service delivery and local capability.

"Chintan brings strong operational leadership and service delivery experience, which will help us continue to mature our SOC and deliver responsive, client focused security operations," he said.

"We are also planning to expand our analyst capability, including locally in regional Bendigo, as we continue building services around the needs of our clients."

“SecMatters has taken the time to understand our environment, listen to our priorities and work with us in a collaborative and considered way," said David Bentley, manager of technology platforms and information security at Coliban Water.

"Their Australian based leadership, technical expertise, responsiveness and partnership are helping us strengthen visibility and continue maturing our cyber resilience."

SecMatters said it is also expanding its capability in line with changing client needs, including AI security, data governance, access control, cloud security, identity, endpoint protection and email security. Its partner ecosystem includes technologies such as Abnormal AI, Concentric AI, Keeper Security and Zscaler.

The company is also planning to expand its services to support smaller and mid-market organisations, including developing a lighter SOC Essentials model for organisations with smaller environments, such as 10–15 endpoints, or those seeking monitoring across cloud based applications, Microsoft 365 and other core business platforms.

This model is designed to provide practical security monitoring, focusing on high confidence alerts, AI-assisted triage and ongoing support, helping clients improve visibility, reduce unmanaged risk and scale their cyber maturity over time.