Research-led · Design-integrated · Protective security
Security decisions
you can defend.
Core42 is a research-led protective security practice. We give the people accountable for organisations, places, and infrastructure an evidence base their decisions can stand on.
Darling Harbour, Sydney. Photo: Dominic Kurniawan Suryaputra / Unsplash. Illustrative overlay.
For Organisations
You're accountable for an organisation.
Run physical security the way you run cyber.
Standing threat intelligence, board-level risk reporting, and an annual posture assessment, on the rhythm your governance calendar already runs.
Enter the organisations laneFor Projects
You're delivering a project or place.
Security that earns its place on the drawings.
Threat analysis, CPTED, protective design, security zone consulting for Defence and government estate, and assurance that decide what a project needs, and what it doesn't, while the drawings can still change.
Enter the projects laneThe evidence
Most security advice rests on the adviser's say-so. Ours can be checked.
Datasets we built, methods reviewed by people we have never met, and measurement that can be re-run. Read the studies, their methods and their limits. No other protective security practice in Australia publishes this way.
Data & method
Our own data, peer-reviewed methods
Our vehicle-as-a-weapon research includes an incident taxonomy published in Crime Science. Read the study, its method and its limits.
PublicationsNew publication
The State of CPTED in NSW
One hundred consultant CPTED reports coded against ISO 22341: the first systematic look at what the practice actually produces. Published July 2026.
The CPTED programmeStanding programmes
Five named research programmes
From protective placemaking to security culture measurement, research that feeds directly into how the firm advises.
The research hub- Published in Crime Science and Terrorism and Political Violence
- Daniel Versaci — SCEC Endorsed Security Zone Consultant
- NSW Government Scheme 5 prequalified
- TfNSW Technically Assured Organisation
- OSPA Finalist 2024, 2025 & 2026
- $80Bn+ in principal project experience
Current work & thinking
What this looks like in practice
Barangaroo — vehicle security strategy
Powerhouse Museum — security operations strategy
Vehicle as a Weapon — the Crime Science taxonomy
135 incidents, 2010–April 2025. Six attack clusters provide a basis for reviewing the vehicle scenarios relevant to a public place.
All insightsTwo ways to start.
An executive briefing for the people accountable for an organisation, or a 30-minute call with a principal about a project or place.