A practice, not a product line.
CyberCrest is an independent network engineering Christchurch practice specialising in networks, connectivity, security and surveillance. The firm designs systems rather than supplying equipment, specifies hardware on technical merit rather than distributor margin, and retains accountability for the architecture long after the installation is signed off.
The gap between fitting equipment and engineering a system.
The small and mid-sized market in New Zealand is served largely by product resellers and installation contractors. Many are entirely competent at mounting hardware and getting an indicator light to turn green. Considerably fewer are accountable for whether the architecture underneath it was sound, and almost none document it.
The failure pattern is consistent. Cameras fitted onto a flat network where a compromised terminal can reach the recorder. Access points positioned for cable convenience rather than modelled coverage. A firewall left on factory defaults because the installer's remit ended at the bracket. Payment devices sharing a broadcast domain with the guest wireless. Backups configured once, never restored from, and quietly failing for eleven months.
None of those are installation failures. They are design decisions nobody consciously made — and by the time the consequences surface, whoever made them has moved on and left nothing written down.
CyberCrest exists to make those decisions deliberately, record them, and remain answerable for them.
What CyberCrest delivers →Assessment first
Hardware is not quoted against a phone call. The design follows the survey; the survey does not follow the price list.
Documented
Topology, addressing plan, VLAN map, port schedule, policy statement and credentials handed over as standard, in the same format on every site.
Narrow standard
A small number of platforms known to depth, rather than whatever carries the best margin this quarter.
Straight answers
Including "that is not worth doing", "the equipment you have is fine" and "this is not a problem we should be solving for you".
Design authority in one place. Delivery through certified specialists.
CyberCrest is structured as an engineering practice rather than a contracting business, and the two are not the same thing.
The specification, configuration, hardening, commissioning and documentation of every system sit with CyberCrest and do not move. Physical installation — cabling, containment, mounting, electrical work — is delivered by licensed and certified partner trades working to CyberCrest drawings, under CyberCrest sign-off, and inspected against the specification before handover.
That structure exists for a reason. It means the practice can scale a project's physical labour to the site without diluting who is answerable for the design, and it means the client is never in the position of arbitrating between a cabling contractor, a security installer and an IT provider who each hold one third of the picture. There is one specification, one document set and one organisation accountable for whether the system does what it was designed to do.
Held by CyberCrest
Architecture, specification, configuration, hardening, commissioning, documentation, ongoing operations and change control.
Delivered by licensed partner trades
Structured cabling, containment, mounting, electrical work and physical installation, carried out to CyberCrest specification and signed off against it before handover.
Owned by the client
Hardware, recorded data, credentials and the complete as-built document set. No leverage is retained.
Jake Stamper — Director and Principal Engineer
"Most of what fails in a small network was decided before anything was installed."
Technical direction of the practice sits with Jake Stamper, director and principal engineer, whose background spans network infrastructure, security and systems engineering across the United Kingdom and New Zealand — eight years in commercial IT infrastructure, the majority of it on live sites where the network was carrying something that mattered.
Every engagement is scoped and specified against the same standard regardless of size, and the design authority for a project does not change hands partway through it.
- Ubiquiti UniFi Partner Program
- NZQA Unit Standard 497 — health and safety
- Current first aid certificate
- Base
- Christchurch, Canterbury
- Also operating
- London, United Kingdom
Two jurisdictions, one standard.
The practice is based in Christchurch and works across Canterbury, the South Island and wider New Zealand by scope. Client sites in London are under active support, managed remotely with attendance where the work warrants it.
The same technology standard, documentation format and engagement model applies in both countries. What differs is the regulatory frame — the Privacy Act 2020 in New Zealand, UK GDPR and the Data Protection Act 2018 in Britain — and the practical consequence of that difference is one of the reasons CyberCrest holds recordings on the local site rather than shipping them to a third-party cloud.
Recorded data stays in the jurisdiction that captured it. That is a design decision, not an accident of where the hardware happened to be installed.
How local recording works →Where the practice stands.
CyberCrest is a specialist practice rather than a volume installer, and the figures reflect that deliberately. Engagements are taken on where the architecture is the constraint rather than the labour.
8
Years in IT and network infrastructure
8
Environments under ongoing support
2
Countries operated in — New Zealand and the United Kingdom
24h
Response window under a managed agreement
The practice, on paper.
- Registered company
- CYBERCREST LIMITED
- NZBN
- 9429053871725
- Company number
- 9450143
- GST registered
- Yes
- Platform partner
- Ubiquiti UniFi Partner Program
- Hardware warranty
- Manufacturer warranty, with extended cover available on request at time of order
- Workmanship warranty
- 12 months
Start with a conversation.
Tell us about the site and what is not working. If there is a fit we will scope an assessment. If there is not, we will say so early and you will have lost nothing but a phone call.