Advisor

A CIO & CISO in your corner.

Senior CIO and CISO expertise, on demand. Book a focused session on whatever's in front of you — a second opinion, a hands-on task, a security scare — with no contract and no procurement cycle to clear.

From A$350 a session · invoiced after, no contract

On-demand sessions

Where an Advisor can help you.

Book senior help for a single problem — no retainer, no commitment. A few of the things teams bring us:

A second opinion before you commit

You're weighing a vendor, a platform or an architecture decision and want someone who's made the call before to pressure-test it — before the contract's signed.

A security alert you're not sure about

Something's fired and you need a fast, senior read on whether it's malicious, benign or a false positive — and what to do in the next hour.

Talk through an incident, during or after

A hand on the response while it's live, or a calm post-mortem on what happened and how to stop a repeat.

A config or change you'd rather not do solo

A senior set of eyes on a production change before you hit enter — so a routine task doesn't become an outage.

A task outside your day-to-day

Certificate renewals, a DNS or mail change, a firewall rule, a tricky bit of Linux administration — share your screen and we'll work through it together rather than you guessing.

Triage a recurring problem

Something keeps breaking and you haven't had time to get to root cause — an hour to diagnose and map the fix.

Shadow a migration or upgrade

Backing for that nervy cutover or version upgrade — available on the day, including after hours, so you're not alone if it goes sideways.

Sense-check your network and connectivity

WAN, SD-WAN, VPN, secure web gateway, egress — a design review or a second opinion before you commit to a topology or a carrier.

A connectivity or access decision

Choosing between options for remote access, site links or internet breakout, and want someone who's built it before to weigh the trade-offs.

Tighten identity and access

Active Directory, Entra ID, MFA and 2FA, joiners and leavers — a review of how access is granted and revoked, and where the gaps are.

Get your backups honest

Most teams have backups; far fewer have tested ones. We'll review how your data is protected, where the gaps are, and whether you could actually recover what matters.

Pressure-test your disaster recovery

Plan, run or sit in on a DR drill — a failover test, a recovery rehearsal, a tabletop walk-through — so you find the weak points in a controlled exercise instead of a real outage.

Plan a cloud move

A migration to (or between) Azure, AWS or Google Cloud you'd rather not scope alone — what to move, what to leave, what it'll cost, and the order to do it in.

Right-size your cloud spend

A review of what you're actually paying for in the cloud, where the waste is, and the changes that cut the bill without cutting capability.

Untangle your Microsoft licensing

Microsoft 365, Exchange Online and the maze of plans, add-ons and true-ups — we'll work out what you actually need and what you're over-paying for.

A licensing cost review

Across your vendors, not just Microsoft — what you're licensed for, what you're using, and where the renewals can be trimmed before they auto-renew.

Sanity-check a quote or proposal

Forward the vendor's scope and pricing and we'll tell you what's fair, what's missing, and what to push back on.

Make sense of a roadmap question

One specific decision on where your technology should head — a cloud move, consolidation, a tooling choice — without committing to an ongoing engagement.

Prep for an audit

A security audit or compliance check is coming and you want to walk in ready — we'll help you find the gaps before the assessor does.

Run a procurement, RFP or RFI

Help shaping the requirements, writing the document, or evaluating the responses — so you buy on fit and evidence, not on the vendor's pitch.

A judgement call for the board

You need to frame a technology or risk question for leadership and want it sense-checked before you put it in front of them.

Just talk it through

Sometimes you know what to do and want a senior peer to confirm you're on the right track. That's a perfectly good reason to book.

How it works

Simple by design.

01 — Book a time

Pick your moment

Choose a slot that suits you, including after hours, and tell us what you need help with.

02 — We solve it together

Get on the problem

A focused session — a call or a screen share — on exactly the thing you brought us.

03 — Invoiced after

No upfront, no contract

We invoice after the session and you pay from the business, like any other supplier.

Book a session

Book an on-demand session.

Pick a time that suits you — including after hours. A short, focused session on the problem in front of you. We'll confirm by email and invoice afterwards.

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Going further

Need more than a one-off?

If you find yourself reaching out often, buy a block of hours at a reduced rate — 4, 6 or 8 hours to use as you need them. And when ad-hoc help becomes a steady need, it rolls naturally into a vCIO engagement from A$2,000/month.

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Who you work with

Led by people who held the role.

ICG is led by senior technology executives with 15+ years in leadership roles at major global companies, with deep experience across infrastructure, cloud, software and security. That experience translates directly into the vCIO, vCISO and CTO-level guidance we bring to clients today: owning the roadmaps, budgets and security decisions you're weighing now, with the trust of enterprises across Asia Pacific.

Behind our executives sits a vetted regional network — specialists, delivery partners and fellow CxOs across Australia and Asia Pacific. When an engagement needs hands rather than direction, or a specific expert, we mobilise the right capability, scoped to the work — so you get senior leadership and delivery without sourcing and managing each vendor yourself.

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A senior hand, whenever you need one.

Book a session and solve the problem in front of you — no contract, invoiced afterwards.

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