Black Shard Information

Black Shard is an Australian software engineering and cybersecurity firm. We design, build, deploy and operate software, and we test and secure it. One team runs both practices, so our security advice comes from systems we build and run ourselves, not from the outside looking in. We work across product and platform engineering, AI and data solutions, physical AI (computer vision, sensor and telemetry pipelines, edge inference), cloud and agentic infrastructure on Microsoft Azure, offensive testing (penetration testing, red teaming, social engineering simulation), defensive and advisory security (vCISO, cloud security review, detection and response), breach remediation, and compliance readiness (Essential Eight, SMB1001, ISO 27001, Privacy Act). Black Shard holds SMB1001:2026 Gold certification and is assessed at ASD Essential Eight Maturity Level 3 across all eight mitigation strategies. We hold a place on the Local Buy LB308 ICT Solutions, Products, Services and New Technologies arrangement and are a registered supplier on the NSW ICT Services Scheme (SCM0020). We build and operate production systems of our own across property, legal, health, recruitment and financial services, so what we deliver for clients is grounded in systems we run ourselves, not observed from the outside. Every engagement carries a director on the work, a fixed scope agreed before work starts, findings validated by hand, and a report written for engineers and the board.