COMPLIANCE
& SOVEREIGNTY
Regulatory exposure
APRA CPS 230, the Essential Eight, IRAP, and the SOCI Act all push toward stronger controls over where data lives and who can access it. Sovereign infrastructure simplifies the assessment burden and removes foreign-jurisdiction risk.
REGULATORY OBLIGATIONS
The frameworks Australian enterprise tends to be measured against. Each one informs architecture decisions; together they make the case for sovereignty.
APRA CPS 230 — Operational Risk
Mandatory operational risk management for APRA-regulated entities. Requires identification of critical operations, third-party service provider management, and tested business continuity. Sovereign infrastructure simplifies the third-party assessment burden.
ACSC Essential Eight
Eight mitigation strategies forming the baseline for protecting Australian government and government-adjacent organisations. Application control, patching, MFA, restriction of admin privileges, and configuration hardening — measured against a maturity model.
IRAP Assessment
Information Security Registered Assessor Program — independent assessment of ICT security against the Information Security Manual. Required for hosting OFFICIAL: Sensitive and PROTECTED government workloads.
SOCI Act — Critical Infrastructure
Security of Critical Infrastructure Act obligations for designated sectors (energy, water, communications, financial services, health). Risk management programs, mandatory cyber incident reporting, and government information requests.
Privacy Act 1988 + APP 11
Australian Privacy Principles, including APP 11 — reasonable steps to protect personal information from misuse, loss, and unauthorised access. Notifiable Data Breaches scheme triggers 72-hour reporting obligations.
HOW WE MEET THESE OBLIGATIONS
Sovereign by default
Capacity in Australian data centres, owned and operated locally. No foreign jurisdiction over your control plane, your hypervisor, your storage layer, or your network egress.
IRAP-assessable architectures
We design for IRAP assessability where it's needed. Documented controls, evidence packages, and architecture aligned to the ISM. We work with your assessor, not against them.
Essential Eight tracking
Maturity-level tracking with documented evidence. Quarterly maturity reviews and roadmap conversations to drive movement up the maturity model where it matters.
Auditor-ready evidence
Documentation, logs, and evidence presented in formats your internal audit, external auditors, and regulators expect. Not slideware — the evidence packs they actually consume.
OTHER ENTERPRISE PROBLEMS
Hyperscale Lock-in
Egress fees, proprietary services, and contractual rebates trap your roadmap.
Budget volatilityUnpredictable OpEx
Cloud bills swing month to month. FinOps overhead grows faster than the savings it produces.
Operational resilienceConcentration Risk
A single hyperscaler outage or policy change can take a critical workload offline.
READY FOR YOUR NEXT AUDIT?
We start with a compliance review aligned to the frameworks that matter to your sector.