Brennan has onboarded six new Security Operations Centre (SOC) customers in the first quarter of the year (Q1 2026) as demand for onshore, sovereign capability from local organisations accelerates.

The growth of its SOC - which now supports more than 50 organisations - follows Brennan’s significant investment in cyber, including the complete integration of Canberra-based cyber specialist CBR Cyber into the business.

With CBR Cyber’s incorporation into Brennan now finalised, and its people and capabilities remaining in place in Canberra, the CBR Cyber brand has been retired.

Brennan now offers customers a single contracting and delivery partner with proven federal government experience in the Canberra market, backed by national scale across managed infrastructure, systems integration and cybersecurity.

Managing Director and Founder of Brennan, Dave Stevens, said that bringing CBR Cyber into the business had further strengthened the security of Brennan’s sovereign systems integration and managed infrastructure.

“As a result of being able to deliver on the growing demand for sovereign and secure services, we have experienced an uplift in services revenues of around 20 per cent,” Mr Stevens said. 

“This growth includes new government customers, with Brennan now supporting six federal government agencies with a combination of sovereign cybersecurity and managed services.

“While government and critical infrastructure, defence-adjacent sectors and APRA-regulated industries are driving the shift to onshore cyber solutions, we are seeing an increase in organisations rethinking where and how their cyber capability operates. 

“For many, even those not required by regulation, that means bringing it back onshore with a truly sovereign provider.

“Our full integration of CBR Cyber, to further embed sovereign cybersecurity into our managed infrastructure and systems integration services, is accelerating demand for our sovereign SOC model.”  

Mr Stevens said the shift to localised cybersecurity services by non-regulated sectors was being driven by a heightened focus on supply chain risk, with organisations requiring greater certainty over where data is stored, who has access to it and how quickly incidents can be detected and contained.

“The Australian Cyber Security Centre has reported a 13 per cent increase in cybercrime reports year-on-year, reinforcing the scale and frequency of threats facing Australian organisations,” Mr Stevens said. 

“There’s far less tolerance for limited visibility and control. Customers want certainty around where their data sits, who has access to it, and how quickly they can respond to a threat.

“This reflects a broader move away from fragmented vendor environments, with organisations increasingly seeking a single provider capable of delivering integrated services with security embedded at the core.” 

Built in line with federal government requirements, Brennan’s sovereign SOC is expanding across key sectors including government, healthcare and financial services, as well as defence supply chains, utilities, universities and other SOCI-regulated sectors. 

Within just four years of establishment, the SOC has rapidly scaled its footprint, positioning Brennan among Australia’s larger sovereign SOC operators as organisations increasingly treat cybersecurity as a core operational and business risk — not just a technical function. 

“Cyber is no longer just a technical layer — it’s directly tied to resilience, compliance and trust. For regulated industries in particular, a locally operated SOC is quickly becoming the baseline,” Mr Stevens said.