Scaled security
without scaling
headcount.
New ownership. Aggressive transformation agenda. A two-person security team.
DeltaPAE is a coal mine and power station on the NSW Central Coast employing more than 350 people. When new ownership arrived, they brought an ambitious technology transformation agenda — cloud migration, new operational technology systems, and a modernisation programme running across multiple simultaneous projects.
The internal security team was two people. Enterprise-level security demands were arriving faster than a small internal team could address them. New ownership needed confidence that security was being embedded across every project — not checked at the end when it was too late to fix without expensive rework.
The challenge wasn't finding vulnerabilities. It was building a security function capable of keeping pace with a fast-moving transformation programme, without the time or budget for additional permanent headcount.
Enterprise-level security capability — from day one of the engagement. A 2-person team operating with the reach and effectiveness of a function four times that size.
Embedded security office — operating as part of the team.
Cliffside became DeltaPAE's embedded security function — not an external consultant arriving with a report, but an integrated part of the team steering the transformation programme from inside it.
Every major project had Cliffside security input from architecture through to delivery. No surprises at go-live. No security findings that delayed projects. No expensive rework.
Eight deliverables. Zero headcount increase.
- Embedded security function operating as an extension of the internal team
- Security architecture input across all simultaneous technology projects
- Vendor assessment and pressure-testing for all major procurement decisions
- Cloud migration security architecture and validation
- OT/IT convergence security framework for mining and energy operations
- Board-level security reporting and risk visibility
- Security awareness programme for operational staff
- 200% effective increase in security team capacity — zero additional headcount
Enterprise security capability. From day one.
A 2-person security team operating with the reach and effectiveness of a security function four times that size — steering a multi-programme transformation without a single project delayed for security reasons.
New ownership had complete confidence that every technology decision across the transformation programme had been security-reviewed. Not after the fact. From the first architecture conversation.
Most security consultants arrive with a predetermined solution and leave with a report. We became part of DeltaPAE's team. The difference shows in the outcome — not a compliance document, but a fundamentally more capable security function that the organisation still operates today.
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