CICADA IR was built by a CIO, a CTO and a Head of Infrastructure. The CIO and CTO have both held the CISO role. Together, they have over 30 years of experience defending organisations, responding to security incidents and working with frameworks including ISO 27001, ACSC Essential Eight, and NIST CSF. We built the tool we wished existed during every investigation that took longer than it should have.

Why the name? The cicada spends years underground, silent and unseen, before rising at precisely the right moment. We built our platform with the same philosophy: always present, quietly prepared, and ready to surface the instant an incident demands action.