De Stefano & Co

Small and Medium Enterprises

Overview

At De Stefano & Co, our mission is to support engineering, manufacturing and technology-based businesses to navigate the complex defence industry environment and grow their defence sector revenues. We do this through a deep understanding of how the defence sector works, its procurement mechanisms, security requirements and the available grant programs.

Capabilities

De Stefano & Co supports businesses through the following services:

STRATEGY

  • Defence Industry Market Entry (DIME(r)) Program
  • Defence Sector Due Diligence Activity
  • Cyber Security Strategy Review & Uplift

SECURITY

  • Defence Industry Security Program (DISP) Membership Attainment
  • DISP Ongoing Compliance Assurance (OCA(tm))
  • Security Officer Support as a Service (SOSaaS(tm))
  • Cyber Security Consulting & Maturity Uplift
    • CMMC
    • ISO27001
    • NIST CSF/SP 800-171
    • Essenital Eight
    • ISM/IRAP
  • Security Education & Training
  • Physical Security Uplift
  • Personnel Security

GRANTS

  • Defence Industry Development Grants (DIDG)
    • Skilling
    • Sovereign Industrial Priorities
    • Security
    • Exports
  • Export Market Development Grant (EMDG)

Discriminators

What sets De Stefano & Co apart from other security and defence-focused consultancies?

  • 200 years of combined Defence and security experience working in Defence Primes, the Big 4, Managing Contractors and SMEs

  • DISP member with security cleared staff
  • A trusted source of defence security education and guidance to academia, industry associations and their members nationwide
  • Ranked 12th fastest growing business in SA in the BDO Fast Movers program in 2022, and 15th fastest in 2023
  • Winner of ‘Cyber Security Consulting Business of the Year - SME’ at the 2024 Australian Cyber Security Awards and finalist for ‘Consultancy of the Year’ in the 2023 and 2024 Australian Defence Industry Awards