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About Us

ABOUT US

Our Goal Is To Help
You Succeed

Cyber Unicorns Pty Ltd is a cyber security consultancy founded in August 2023 by Co-Founders Craig and Melissa Ford. We provide the usual cyber security advice, maturity assessments and strategy to get you on a path to better security but we do it with a difference.
We created the company to help make a difference in education with children, seniors, small businesses and just everyday people. We want to help teach you how to make smart choices in the digital world, really get the basics right and understand why these decisions are important.
We are creating online educational content, tailored to each group. Removing all of the noise and jargon that just isn’t necessary. We will help you make the right decisions for your business, and your family and help lift awareness across the globe.
Craig is the principal consultant for Cyber Unicorns and has been in the ICT and cyber industry since the early 2000s. He started out in a traineeship and has worked his way up through various roles in IT support. Since 2014 he has been shifting his focus to cyber security and how he can use his knowledge to better protect organisations and satisfy his curiosity for how things work.
He has three post-grad degrees from CSU (Charles Sturt University) and provides senior-level consulting as a virtual CISO (Chief Information Security Officer) to clients such as Wesley Mission QLD, PCYC Queensland and Ipswich City Council just to name a few. He has experience in senior management positions as well as SOC (Security Operations Centre) and pentesting.
Our Story

The Story Behind Our
Company

Cyber Unicorns is a company born out of passion and a desire to do more. For years Craig our cofounder worked in cyber security helping to mentor and foster an open diverse community with his involvement with the Australian Information Security Association (AISA) as a member of the board of directors and previously Queensland branch chair.
He has written for several industry magazines like Top Cyber News, Cyber Today, Cyber Australia, Women in Security, Education Australia and Careers with STEM. He is the author of three book series all trying to educate and entertain readers. However, the most recent book – The Shadow World has made Craig realise that he can do more, he wants to help small businesses be better at security by helping make it easier for them to understand and to know what they should be doing.
He wants to expand the education journey from just kids that he started with The Shadow World to create a widespread education program to help uplift the knowledge of yes still children but expand that to create content for SMBs, the elderly and everyday people just wanting to know how to be just that little bit safer.
So, Craig and Melissa took a chance and cofounded Cyber Unicorns to continue to push for education for all and help provide advice to organisations that can’t afford a full-time security team.