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Identity Sprawl: Why Australian Businesses Need an Identity Maturity Assessment in 2026
Identity Sprawl: Why Australian Businesses Need an Identity Maturity Assessment in 2026
Identity Sprawl: Why Australian Businesses Need an Identity Maturity Assessment in 2026
Identity Sprawl: Why Australian Businesses Need an Identity Maturity Assessment in 2026

Identity Sprawl: Why Australian Businesses Need an Identity Maturity Assessment in 2026

A Perth engineering consultancy discovered during a routine software licence audit that a project manager who had left the company eight months earlier still had active login access to the firm’s cloud file storage, its project management platform, and two …

Cybersecurity for Professional Services Firms in Australia: Accountants, Lawyers, Consultants

A Melbourne accounting firm discovered last year that a staff member’s email had been silently monitored for six weeks. The attacker — who had accessed the account using credentials stolen in a third-party data breach — waited patiently, watching invoice …

Penetration Testing vs Vulnerability Scanning: What’s the Difference?

Penetration testing and vulnerability scanning are often used interchangeably — even by IT vendors who should know better. They are not the same thing. They answer different questions, produce different outputs, and are suited to different situations. Confusing them can …

APRA CPS 234: A Practical Compliance Checklist for Australian Financial Services

If your organisation is regulated by APRA — a bank, insurer, superannuation fund, or other APRA-regulated entity — then CPS 234 is not optional. It is a legally binding prudential standard that requires you to maintain an information security capability …