MSP Pie's directory in Melbourne currently includes 49 Essential Eight providers. In short, the Essential Eight is the Australian Cyber Security Centre's baseline set of mitigation strategies; providers offering this help a business assess and lift its maturity against that specific framework. Worth knowing: buying Essential Eight uplift work usually means agreeing which maturity level is the target and how progress against it will be assessed.
The most common specialisms across the list in Melbourne are Cyber security (31), Essential Eight (28), Managed IT and helpdesk (27), Cloud and hosting (20), Microsoft 365 (15). In total, 50 distinct specialisms are represented across this group of providers in Melbourne. Founding years among them range from 1989 to 2024. They are based across 20 different suburbs. Of the 49, 27 have an office in Melbourne -- the others cover it as a service area. 31 of the 49 operate from more than one office across Australia.