The Latest Red Piranha News
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April marks a shift from launch to enablement as we continue building momentum following the rollout of Crystal Eye 6.0 and our recent Partner Events. With strong engagement across Melbourne, Sydney, Perth, and India, we’ve successfully delivered our Crystal Eye Essentials training sessions - equipping our partners and customers with the knowledge and practical skills to deploy and manage the platform effectively across real-world environments.
This month’s Knowledge Sprint, Future-Proof the Board, focuses on a growing priority for organisations, ensuring cyber risk is not only managed, but clearly understood, governed, and defensible at the board level. Boards are no longer assessed on whether controls exist, but on how well risk is articulated, how controls are governed, and how reporting stands up to scrutiny. This session explores how organisations can operationalise the full Risk > Controls > Reporting lifecycle using Crystal Eye OS and Orchestrate, delivering automated, board-ready compliance aligned to DISP and Corporations Act obligations.
Read on for the latest updates, insights, and initiatives from the Red Piranha team this month. |
Red Piranha Introduces Crystal Eye 6.0 with Quantum-Resistant SD-WAN, Next-Generation Hardware and Expanded Platform Intelligence
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Red Piranha launched Crystal Eye 6.0, the latest version of its unified cybersecurity platform, alongside an expanded security and networking ecosystem.
The launch was showcased through a series of partner events, providing customers and partners with early insight into new platform capabilities, hardware advancements, and upcoming product innovations.
Crystal Eye 6.0 introduces significant advancements in performance, deployment flexibility, and security visibility, designed to support organisations operating across distributed and high-demand environments. The platform includes enhancements across TDIR, Secure Web Gateway and CASB controls, along with expanded asset visibility through updates to the Orchestrate dashboard, including enhanced ITAM and CMDB capabilities for improved asset tracking and context.
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Red Piranha Wins the Coveted Global InfoSec Awards during RSA Conference 2026
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Red Piranha is honoured to announce that we have won the "Cutting Edge: Advanced Persistent Threat Detection and Response, Transformational: SOC-as-a-Service and Market Disruptor: XDR - Extended Detection and Response" Awards at the 14th annual Global InfoSec Awards 2026 by Cyber Defense Magazine, during this year’s RSA Conference in San Francisco.
For the sixth year, we're showcasing Australian-made, defence-ready cybersecurity technology that demonstrates true sovereign capability on the global stage.
Congratulations to our entire team for delivering world-class technology that continues to make a powerful impact across the industry.
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Crystal Eye Platform Updates
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Crystal Eye April Update This month, we have made several improvements to our IDPS, SIEM, CESOC, IP Attack Map, Network Map, RAID, CMDB data ingestion, Orchestrate UI and Mongodb server. We have also made several improvements to reporting features, dashboards and high availability in Crystal Eye OS 5.5.
If you haven’t upgraded to 5.5 yet, here’s what you’re missing:
- RAID Support
- Defender for Endpoint Updates
- Link Aggregation (LACP) support
- Entra ID Management and Policy Configuration
- Entra ID SSO Authentication for WireGuard VPN
- SD-WAN monitoring improvements
- Updated Risk Auditing and CEASR policy management
- DAS (Declarative Authorisation Service) for granular SaaS policy enforcement
- Bridge Interface deployment
- A range of UI and reliability enhancements across the platform
Upgrading is free and available to all Crystal Eye systems running version 5.0. A reminder to all users that Crystal Eye 5.0 is nearing the end of life with the 6.0 release. This is scheduled for release by the end of quarter one of 2026. If you have not yet updated to version 5.5, please do so as soon as possible.
For support or more information, reach out to support@redpiranha.net or visit our Forum at forum.redpiranha.net. |
Knowledge Sprint: Future-Proof the Board
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Boards are no longer asking if controls exist. They are asking if cyber risk is understood, governed, and defensible, and that is where most organisations fall short.
Not because they lack controls, but because they can’t clearly connect: Risk → Controls → Reporting
Join our upcoming Knowledge Sprint: Future-proof the Board to see how organisations can operationalise this using Crystal Eye OS and Orchestrate, delivering automated, Board‑ready compliance aligned to DISP and Corporations Act obligations.
No checklists. No theory. Just a practical path to Board-ready reporting and defensible compliance. |
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Service Spotlight:
Crystal Eye Hybrid Mesh Firewall
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Modern enterprises no longer operate behind a single perimeter. Workloads, users and applications now span branches, data centres, cloud platforms and remote environments. Security must follow them everywhere with the same visibility and the same control.
Crystal Eye delivers a Hybrid Mesh Firewall that unifies Threat Detection, Investigation and Response with centralised orchestration and consistent policy across every deployment model. Hardware, virtual and cloud deployments all run the same platform and are managed through one control plane.
This approach replaces fragmented tools with a single security architecture that combines next generation firewalling, intrusion prevention, advanced threat detection, VPN connectivity and integrated vulnerability management. Real time threat intelligence and 24x7 SOC support ensure threats are detected, prioritised and contained quickly.
The platform aligns fully with Hybrid Mesh Firewall requirements defined by Gartner. It integrates SIEM, SOAR, SD WAN, ZTNA, DLP, secure email and secure web gateway capabilities into one ecosystem, backed by threat intelligence from the Cyber Threat Alliance.
Native integration with Amazon Web Services and Microsoft Azure extends identity aware policy and zero trust controls into cloud environments, while centralised management simplifies governance across the entire estate.
For organisations, the outcome is simple. One platform, consistent security everywhere, and faster detection and response across the enterprise.
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MacSync Stealer: How a MaaS Infostealer Is Quietly Draining macOS Endpoints MacSync Stealer
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macOS visibility is still a blind spot for many organisations.
MacSync Stealer, a MaaS infostealer, is actively targeting macOS using techniques that evade traditional controls and blend into normal activity.
This isn’t about prevention gaps. It’s a detection and response problem. If malicious activity on macOS isn’t clearly visible, it won’t be investigated, contained, or reported.
And that’s where risk builds, quietly.
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Cyber Defense Radio - Adam Bennett - Hotseat Podcast – 2026
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Cybersecurity today isn’t failing because of a lack of tools; it’s failing because of too many of them.
In this Cyber Defense Radio - Hotseat Podcast with Annabelle Thomas from Cyber Defense Magazine, our CEO, Adam Bennett, breaks down why fragmented security stacks are creating blind spots, increasing complexity, and slowing response times.
Key takeaways from the conversation:
- Why tool sprawl is one of the biggest security risks today
- The shift toward unified security platforms for real-time detection and response
- How integrated threat intelligence is changing cyber resilience
At Red Piranha, we believe cybersecurity should be unified, operationalised, and built for real-world threats, not a collection of tools.
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Questions?
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Get in touch. If you have any questions, comments or feedback regarding our ongoing programs, products or services, please submit them to support@redpiranha.net or head to our forum at https://forum.redpiranha.net
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