GOVERNANCE, RISK AND COMPLAINCE (GRC)
OVERVIEW
Our Governance, Risk and Compliance (GRC) Services provide the structured foundations you need to operate securely, confidently, and in full alignment with regulatory expectations. We combine strong governance frameworks, proactive risk management, and clear compliance oversight to ensure your business remains resilient, auditready, and strategically protected. By integrating policies, controls, automation, and continuous monitoring, we help you reduce exposure, improve decisionmaking, and build a security posture that supports longterm growth. With proven experience delivering largescale governance and lifecycle programmes across APAC, we bring clarity, consistency, and control to even the most complex environments.
OUR SERVICES
We provide you with the structure, clarity, and oversight needed to operate securely and confidently in an increasingly complex regulatory landscape. By integrating strong governance frameworks with proactive risk management and continuous compliance monitoring, we help businesses reduce exposure, strengthen trust, and maintain resilient, auditready operations.
Governance Services
Information Governance and Data Retention Management
We design and implement governanceled retention frameworks that ensure your data is kept only for as long as it is legally, operationally, and commercially required. By aligning lifecycle controls with enterprise policies, we help you reduce risk, improve compliance, and strengthen information discipline across every repository.
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Policy Development and Governance Frameworks
We develop clear, actionable governance frameworks that translate regulatory requirements into structured policies your teams can confidently follow. We define roles, responsibilities, and decisionmaking processes that bring consistency, accountability, and clarity to your security and compliance practices.
Access Governance (IGA) and Role Based Controls
We establish enterprisewide access governance standards that ensure users only have the permissions they need, and nothing more. Through identity lifecycle design and rolebased controls, we help prevent privilege creep, strengthen auditability, and reduce risk across the organisation.
Risk Services
Cyber Risk Assessment (including CYBERv360™)
Our assessments reveal your current cyber maturity, pinpointing control gaps and highrisk areas across governance, identity, infrastructure, and compliance. We translate these insights into a clear, prioritised roadmap that helps you strengthen resilience and support informed decisionmaking at the leadership level.
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Third Party and Vendor Risk Oversight
We evaluate your suppliers’ controls, contracts, and delivery practices to ensure they meet your security and compliance expectations. By bringing thirdparty activities under structured governance, we reduce exposure, improve accountability, and prevent vendor misalignment across your environments.
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AI Governance and Model Risk
We help you establish transparency, accountability, and compliance standards for AI adoption, ensuring models operate within safe and auditable boundaries. Our governance approach reduces regulatory risk, strengthens trust, and enables responsible innovation across AIdriven workflows.
Compliance Services
Cyber Risk Assessment (including CYBERv360™)
Regulatory Compliance Management
We guide you through complex frameworks such as GDPR, ISO 27001, Essential Eight, HIPAA, and APRA CPS 234 to ensure you remain continuously compliant. We identifies gaps, define remediation actions, and embed sustainable compliance processes across your operating model.
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Regulatory Compliance Management Data Privacy and Protection (DLPLed Compliance)
We combine strong privacy governance with DLP controls to prevent unauthorised access, disclosure, or movement of sensitive information. By deploying classification, labelling, and monitoring technologies, we help you maintain regulatory alignment while reducing the risk of data loss.
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Compliance Monitoring and Reporting
Our continuous monitoring and scheduled reviews provide clear visibility into compliance status across your systems, policies, and data. With auditready reporting and proactive alerts, we ensure deviations are detected early and corrected before they become risks.
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Lifecycle Enablement
Tooling Implementation and Automation
We deploy and integrate leading lifecycle tools to automate retention, classification, and policy enforcement at scale. This automation ensures consistent governance outcomes while reducing operational overhead and human error.
Large Scale Data Remediation and Migration
We specialise in transforming large, unstructured, or multicountry data estates into organised and compliant repositories. By removing redundant, obsolete, and trivial data and remediating legacy systems, we reduce risk, cost, and complexity across your information landscape.
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Assurance & Response
Audit and Assurance (ISO 27001 / Essential Eight)
We prepare your teams for both internal and external audits by establishing evidence practices, logging standards, and compliance reporting routines. Our assurance services strengthen certification readiness and help you demonstrate robust governance to regulators, partners, and customers.
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Incident Response Readiness and Regulatory Reporting
We build and refine your incident response frameworks, ensuring your organisation can respond quickly and effectively to cyber events. Our advisory ensures that all recovery actions, reporting requirements, and documentation meet legal and industry standards, reducing business and regulatory impact.
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OUR APPROACH
Governance First
We start by establishing clear governance structures that define roles, responsibilities, and scope across your organisation. This ensures alignment from day one, preventing cost overruns, scope drift, and vendor misalignment while creating a foundation of clarity and accountability.
Automation Led
Our approach leverages automation to enforce governance consistently and at scale, reducing reliance on manual processes. From scanning and classification to retention and deletion, automation delivers repeatable, reliable compliance that adapts as your organisation grows.
Independent and Vendor Neutral
We provide objective advice free from vendor influence, ensuring you receive solutions aligned with your needs, risk appetite, and budget. Our independence allows us to recommend only the technologies and approaches that genuinely strengthen your governance, compliance, and operational resilience.
Proven Across APAC
Our team has successfully delivered largescale data governance and lifecycle programmes across Australia, Hong Kong, Singapore, Japan, Indonesia, China, and Malaysia. This regional expertise enables us to navigate complex regulatory environments and implement scalable, crossborder governance frameworks that stand up to scrutiny.
WHY CHOOSE US
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Proven Expertise
We’ve delivered complex governance and compliance programmes across highly regulated, multicountry environments. Our experience means you get solutions shaped by realworld transformation, not theory.
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Independent Advice
We are fully vendorneutral, ensuring every recommendation is based solely on what strengthens your security and compliance. Your strategy, not a product, is always the priority.
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Built to Scale
Our frameworks adapt seamlessly as your business grows, adding new systems, markets, or regulatory requirements without creating complexity. You stay aligned, compliant, and in control.
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Regulatory Confidence
We stay ahead of evolving global and regional requirements, translating regulations into simple, actionable steps. You gain clarity, reduce risk, and maintain trust with auditors and stakeholders.
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Automation Focused
We use automation to ensure consistent policy enforcement, reducing manual effort and human error. This delivers reliable, auditready compliance across your entire environment.
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Customer Driven Delivery
We work collaboratively with your teams to shape solutions that fit your environment, timelines, and objectives. Our approach ensures practical outcomes that deliver measurable value.
CUSTOMER STORIES
BANK DATA LOSS PREVENTION PROJECT (EUROPEAN HIGH STREET BANK)
Business Needs
The Bank required a successful DLP rollout after multiple failed attempts and regulatory pressure to strengthen data protection. It needed clear sensitivedata identification, workable policies, and effective use of existing Microsoft Purview and Defender tools.
Our Approach
We delivered a structured project plan, reviewed existing tools, and engaged IT, Compliance, Audit, and Business teams. Champions were appointed, policies developed, files bulklabelled, retention processes introduced, and reporting dashboards built to support businessowned DLP operations.
Customer Benefits
The Bank gained clear DLP policies, automated labelling, improved retention processes, and actionable reporting. IT and Business teams now jointly manage DLP effectively, meeting regulatory expectations and strengthening protection of sensitive customer and corporate data.
Testimonial
"Very knowledgeable, engaged well, broke the project’s back, and guided IT to implement effective DLP policies."
HEAD OF IT OPERATIONS
DATA MANAGEMENT LIFECYCLE PROJECT (GLOBAL INSURER – APAC)
Business Needs
A leading APAC insurer needed to regain control of a failing regional datalifecycle programme suffering from scope creep, ineffective migration efforts, rising costs, and compliance risks. They required structured governance, retention tooling, and improved vendor accountability to restore stability and meet regulatory expectations.
Our Approach
The consultancy halted the programme, established strong governance, clarified objectives, and redesigned the Statement of Work. They introduced AvePoint Cloud Records, renegotiated vendor contracts, streamlined delivery, and enabled automated lifecycle management across APAC to restore control and accelerate progress.
Customer Benefits
The insurer achieved a 75% reduction in time and cost, regained compliance, and implemented scalable lifecycle governance. Automated retention, improved vendor performance, streamlined processes, and the labelling of over 200 million files delivered measurable operational, financial, and regulatory benefits.
Testimonial
"Brought structure, clarity, and control, reducing costs, restoring compliance, and transforming our data governance programme."
