About
Security decisions
you can defend.
A specialist protective security firm for organisations and major projects. We work across threat intelligence, risk and threat analysis, crime prevention, protective engineering, and assurance: for the executives who carry the accountability, and the teams delivering the places.
Why Core42
Security decisions you can defend
$80Bn+
Delivered portfolio
Transport precincts, defence estates, cultural institutions, commercial developments, and public realm. Trusted by government clients and retained by their contractors.
Empirical
Incident evidence base
Proprietary terrorism databases, 80+ project case repository, and longitudinal performance studies. Every recommendation is grounded in empirical evidence.
Proportionate
Not just what to add: what to leave out
We use quantified risk evidence, structured attack analysis, and empirical threat data to determine where protection is justified and where it isn't. Clients consistently tell us the most valuable thing we do is rigorously demonstrate what they can defensibly leave out.
100%
Design integration
Security recommendations delivered in design language, at design decision points — so architects and landscape designers can implement them without a second interpreter. We sit in the meetings, mark up the drawings, and translate threat requirements into spatial parameters the design team can actually use.
The premise
Experience tells you what usually works. Evidence tells you when it won't.
Most protective security advice runs on experience: the last project's threat basis, the standard detail, the measure that has always worked. Experience is a good starting point. On its own, it can't tell you when the site in front of you is the exception.
So we put evidence underneath it. Proprietary incident databases, methods published under peer review, and measurement that can be re-run sit beneath the advice, so when a recommendation is questioned in a design review, a procurement gate, or an audit, the reasoning holds up.
Who we are
The firm, in three parts
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Our Approach
Legible. Testable. Enduring. The three standards that govern every piece of work we deliver.
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Vision & Mission
Security that belongs in the design. Where we are headed and why it matters.
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Team
PhD research. CPP credentials. $80Bn+ in delivered projects. The people who win the work do the work.
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What we do
Advisory structured around the decisions you actually face
For organisations: standing threat intelligence, board-level risk reporting, and enterprise assessment. For projects: threat analysis, CPTED, protective design, and assurance carried from the first scenario through to built-form verification.
Common questions
What people ask about the firm
Is Core42 the same as Core42 (G42) in Abu Dhabi?
No. Core42 (core42.com.au) is an independent Australian protective security advisory firm for the built environment, legally registered as Define42 Pty Ltd, with offices in Sydney and Perth. It has no affiliation with Core42, the Abu Dhabi-based AI and cloud computing company that is a subsidiary of G42.
What does Core42 Australia do?
Core42 provides research-led protective security advisory for organisations and the built environment: standing threat intelligence and board risk reporting, security risk and threat analysis, CPTED and place-based safety, protective design including hostile vehicle mitigation and blast, systems assurance, and SCEC-endorsed security zone consulting. Clients include government agencies, tier-1 contractors, and architecture practices across Australia.
Where is Core42 based?
Core42 has offices in Sydney (Chippendale, NSW) and Perth (St Georges Terrace, WA), and delivers projects in every Australian capital city including Melbourne, Brisbane, Canberra, Hobart, and Darwin.
Credentials & panels
- SCEC Endorsed Security Consultant
- NSW Government Scheme 5 prequalified
- TfNSW Technically Assured Organisation
- CPP ×2
- PhD research (UTS)
- Published in Crime Science
Talk to the people who do the work.
A 30-minute conversation with a principal, whether you're accountable for an organisation's security posture or delivering a project that has to get it right.