About us

Welcome to Northbridge

Twenty-seven years of excellence in the industry, and an engineering team that has deployed, fixed and run more enterprise security platforms than most providers have quoted for. We're specialists, we're sovereign, and we finish what we start.

Meet the team Our story

Sovereign Australian capability

Australian-owned. Australian-operated. Australian engineers, on Australian soil, with the clearances your environment requires. Your data, your platform and the people who run it stay within Australian jurisdiction, which for government, defence supply chain and critical infrastructure isn't a preference, it's a condition of doing business.

Our culture

People working with people

That's how trust gets built, not through the technology. We say what we think, and we say it early.

A named lead on every engagement Fixed scope, flexible method We move when the unknowns surface
Our team

Engineers who've seen it before

Thirty-one Netskope certified architects and engineers at the highest partner tier. You work with them directly.

Certified at the top tier Cleared for government and defence work Onshore, in your time zone
Our expertise

Deep on three platforms

Netskope, Illumio and Material, deployed across seven regulated sectors. We know them well enough to know where they break.

27 years of excellence in the industry Data protection, secure access, AI security Government to retail, and everything regulated between
Our story

27 years, and counting

From Australian networks to Australian security. The turns along the way are the reason we're good at this now.

Advancing automatically. Drag or use the arrows.
1999

Northbridge is founded, building and running network and voice infrastructure for Australian business and government organisations. Two decades of learning how enterprise environments work.

VExpress
2003

VExpress is founded as a hardware distributor. Learning what channel partners actually need starts here.

Exltech
2012

Exltech is founded, a purpose-built distributor for Telstra. Deep channel relationships that still shape how we go to market today.

Northbridge
2020

Northbridge diversifies into cyber security. The team upskills the same engineers across data protection, secure access and the platforms that deliver them.

Fifteen
2022

VExpress and Exltech are brought together as Fifteen, a partner distribution channel for taking Northbridge cyber security services to market through partners.

Recognition 2025

Netskope names Northbridge its Service Delivery Partner for APAC. Recognition for what the team had been doing quietly for years.

2026

Global expansion begins. Northbridge opens in Singapore, taking the same delivery model into the wider Asia-Pacific region.

Benchmark Security Awards
Recognition 2026

Named Netskope Service Delivery Partner for APAC for the second year in a row. The same year, Northbridge is named a finalist in the Benchmark Security Awards.

Our Credentials

Independently audited against the standards your procurement team and your tender documents will ask for.

Accredited, audited and certified: JAS-ANZ, Essential Eight Verified, ISO 27001, ISO 9001, ISO 14001 and ISO 45001
Our team

The people who'll do the work

Small enough that the people who set the direction still sit in on delivery. Named at the start, on your account through to handover.

Mike Harte
Mike Harte
Chief Executive Officer
Chris Moustra
Chris Moustra
General Manager
Aiden Whiteman
Aiden Whiteman
Sales Manager, Cyber
Andre Hauser
Andre Hauser
Technical Manager
James Newell
James Newell
Service Operations Manager
Graham
Graham Arden
Project Manager
Harshita Sood
Harshita Sood
Marketing Manager

As seen in the industry

iTnews · September 2026

Cleanaway is modernising its network connecting 350 sites

Netskope SD-WAN across more than 350 Australian sites, delivered through Macquarie Technology Group.

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techpartner.news · 2026

Benchmark Security Awards finalist

Finance & Professional Services (Security Partners) category. Winners announced November 2026.

See the finalists
techpartner.news · August 2026

Netskope hands out 2026 ANZ Partner Awards

Northbridge takes the Service Delivery Excellence award for the second consecutive year.

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techpartner.news · February 2026

Australian cybersecurity provider Northbridge Systems expands into Singapore

Formalising a long-term commitment to Asia, with regional leadership hired from Telstra International.

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Work with people who've done it before

Scoping a deployment, mid-rollout with another provider, or starting again after a stalled project. We'll give you an honest read on what it takes to get it done.

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