If Defence is more than half your revenue, losing DISP isn't a compliance problem — it's existential.
As an SME in the Defence supply chain, you face the same ML2 requirements as the primes — with a fraction of the budget and team. If Defence contracts represent more than half your revenue, losing DISP membership doesn't just mean compliance failure. It means losing the contracts that keep your business alive.
Your specific challenges
An existential business risk
For SME contractors where Defence is more than 50% of revenue, losing DISP membership means losing the contracts that keep the business alive. This isn't a compliance exercise — it's survival.
Same bar, fraction of the budget
ML2 requires the same set of controls whether you have 50 staff or 5,000. Manual pentesting engagements routinely run to tens of thousands of dollars, leaving little budget for the remediation that actually matters.
Small teams, big scope
Your security team may be one person wearing multiple hats. Managing ML2 compliance across all eight strategies simultaneously is overwhelming without the right tools.
Built for your situation
Testing at a fraction of the cost
Autonomous pentesting is estimated at 50-70% lower cost than equivalent consulting pentesting. Spend your budget on fixing problems, not finding them.
Re-test without re-spending
Quick Verify re-tests specific fixes in internal environments at no additional cost, so you can confirm remediation without paying for another engagement.
Essential Eight ML2 evidence within your budget
See how NodeZero gives SME Defence contractors evidence for Essential Eight ML2