September 2025 - Newsletter

The Latest Red Piranha News

August was another successful month at Red Piranha. Our Knowledge-Sprint webinars are in full swing, last month we hosted an insightful session on Crystal Eye Declarative Authorisation Service (DAS). The session explored how DAS delivers fine-grained security for AI MCPs, containers, APIs, virtual machines, and cloud-native services, helping enterprises reduce lateral attack surfaces and enforce zero trust in real-world environments. If you missed it, the full recording is now available on YouTube.

Be sure to register for our upcoming sprint session on Crystal Eye Passive Encryption Control Application, details can be found below.

Read on to discover what else the Red Piranha team has been working on this month!

Knowledge Sprint - Remove Vulnerable Blind Spots in Enterprise OT/IoT with Crystal Eye Passive Encryption Control Application

Zero Trust segmentation and Passive Encryption Control Application (PECA) for Critical Infrastructure without adding complexity or cost.

Critical infrastructure is under constant pressure - from poorly secured IoT to legacy OT. With SOCI Positive Security Obligations and mandatory reporting, good enough isn’t good enough.

In this live session, Red Piranha experts will demonstrate how Crystal Eye Zero Trust and Passive Encryption Control Application (PECA) enable you to segment, monitor, and contain threats across OT/IoT without agents, downtime, or decryption, all while avoiding added complexity or cost.

Crystal Eye Platform Updates

We have just rolled out Crystal Eye 5.5 (Build 14), bringing you smarter security, greater stability, and an even smoother user experience. Every improvement is designed to keep your organisation safer, faster, and more resilient.

Highlights of This Release

This update has been carefully designed to give you stronger protection, greater stability, and a smoother experience across the platform. Every enhancement reflects our focus on making security both powerful and easy to manage.

The AI Engine has been refined to deliver sharper detection, giving you smarter insights into unusual activity. The combination of Web Filter and DNS Security now provides clearer visibility into risky traffic and keeps browsing safer than ever.

With improvements in the Intrusion Detection & Protection (IDPS) service, alerts are more consistent and reliable, ensuring that potential threats are caught early and acted on quickly.

Stability has also been strengthened across key modules. The Advanced Firewall now delivers smoother performance in complex, multi-connection environments, giving you confidence in always-on protection. Both WireGuard and Single Sign-On (SSO) have been enhanced with high-availability support, meaning your secure tunnels and authentication services remain uninterrupted even under demanding conditions.

Ease of use has been another major focus. The Admin User module now offers simplified setup with faster deployment options, helping teams get started more efficiently. In the same spirit, M365 Policy Manager and the Microsoft Graph Connector provide cleaner, easier-to-read log views, allowing for quicker insights and decision-making.

Visual management tools like Network Map and the Network Diagnostic Tool have also been improved, offering clearer device visibility and faster network health checks. Meanwhile, Risk Auditing and Risk Reports have been fine-tuned for responsiveness and accuracy, so you can focus on the issues that matter most.

Finally, updates to XDR Reports deliver clearer executive summaries, making it easier to communicate results with stakeholders and demonstrate the strength of your security posture.

To read more about the 5.5 update and features visit the forum or directly access the post in our Community Support (link here).

Service Spotlight: Declarative Authorisation Service (DAS)

AI brings enormous opportunity, but it also introduces new risks. Model control planes are a prime target for misuse, data leaks, and compliance violations. Crystal Eye Declarative Authorisation Service (DAS) closes that gap by giving you fine-grained control over every stage of the AI lifecycle like from model promotion to runtime behaviour.

What makes this powerful is that AI protection sits inside the same DAS policy plane that secures your broader environment. That means your team doesn’t juggle separate tools or create blind spots. Whether it’s blocking privileged containers, requiring signed images, or enforcing data residency rules, DAS extends zero trust principles directly into AI operations and keeps your models safe by design.

Beyond AI, DAS is built to solve the challenges of hybrid and cloud workloads. Traditional firewalls can’t enforce rules between workloads, which is exactly where ransomware spreads. DAS tackles this with microsegmentation and zero trust authorisation that reaches down to the workload and API level. You define “allow on need” rules once, and DAS enforces them everywhere across cloud tenants, business apps, and even individual REST endpoints.

The outcomes are tangible. Lateral movement is contained, east–west traffic is no longer a mystery, and audits move faster with decision logs mapped to PCI DSS, NIST, and ISO standards. At the same time, DAS scales with your business, keeping pace as new assets spin up in data centres, public clouds, and containers.

In short, Crystal Eye DAS turns Gartner’s zero trust guidance into reality. It simplifies policy, reduces the attack surface, and ensures your organisation stays in control of modern, hybrid, and AI-driven environments.

Red Piranha Events

Here’s a sneak peek into the events we attended recently:

First Wednesday Of The Month (FWOTM)

Red Piranha’s Justin Soyke joined the First Wednesday Of The Month (FWOTM) in Sydney, connecting with industry peers and engaging with students taking their first steps into the industry. He shared valuable insights and experiences to help guide the next generation of professionals.

Students of Cyber

Red Piranha was proud to co-host an incredible evening with CyberWest Hub, bringing together a packed room of passionate students from across Western Australia’s leading institutions.

A huge thank you to our brilliant panellists for sharing their insights and career journeys.

The panel delivered a dynamic and engaging discussion, offering students a real-world look into the life of a cybersecurity professional, along with practical tips for landing roles post-graduation.

Supporting the student pathway is a priority for Red Piranha. We believe in the multiplier effect: more education leads to more innovation, which drives employment, research, and economic growth across Western Australia.

SMBiT Professionals Melbourne Chapter Meeting – August

Red Piranha’s Sameer Kalsi attended the SMBiT Professionals Melbourne chapter last month.

One of the key highlights from the event was the insightful presentation by Linden Jackson on how business owners can remove organisational bottlenecks to enable growth, and the discussion around the security challenges that AI tools pose and the strategies that can be adopted to mitigate the risk.

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