About us

Based throughout Australia and New Zealand with clients across the globe, our specialist consultancy operates at the forefront of CTI & Security Operations.

2015

Year founded

9

Team size

2

Countries

100+

Engagements

Who We Are

Based throughout Australia and New Zealand, the Cosive team are globally recognised practitioners, consultants, trainers and speakers in the field of Cyber Threat Intelligence and Security Operations.

We help organisations assess and improve their CTI and SecOps capabilities with specialised consulting, engineering, and managed security platforms.

Our customers include global multinational companies, federal governments, financial institutions, and critical infrastructure providers.

Our Story

2015

Cosive is co-founded Kayne Naughton, Terry MacDonald, and Chris Horsley.

2016

Cosive begins a long tradition of speaking and keynoting at major cybersecurity events, including AusCERT, Black Hat Asia, CyberCon, Linux.conf.au, and NZITF.

2019

The team launches three in-house products into the market: Smokeproxy, Phishfeeder and Antifraud.

2022

Cosive launches CloudMISP, a managed MISP service.

2024

Cosive launches MalwareZoo, a private malware repository.

Our approach

01

Integrity

We always act with integrity, both internally and when working with clients.

02

Transparency

We are transparent with clients and with each other.

03

Technical excellence

We build systems and software that are secure, robust, and maintainable.

04

Put clients first

We always act in the best interests of our clients, even when it means a smaller paycheck for us.

05

Speak from experience

We only recommend tools, solutions and practices we've used ourselves.

Our regions

Australia

New Zealand