Governance, Risk & Assurance

Establish confidence in security, compliance, and risk management

As regulatory expectations increase and security risks evolve, organisations must demonstrate strong governance, effective risk management, and continuous assurance. Data Protection Services (DPS) helps organisations move beyond point-in-time compliance to a continuous, evidence-driven approach to governance and risk.

We enable organisations to reduce compliance burden, improve visibility, and confidently demonstrate control across security, risk, and regulatory obligations.

Why governance, risk & assurance matter

Attacks now target people, not just systems.

Threat actors increasingly use social engineering, trusted sender abuse, and compromised accounts to initiate attacks that look legitimate. These threats often bypass secure email gateways, endpoint protection, and native platform controls.

Effective threat prevention requires behavioural analysis, context, and continuous monitoring of how users and attackers actually operate, not just what an email or message looks like.

75%+
Australian organisations struggle to maintain continuous compliance evidence
70%+
Security incidents expose gaps in governance, risk, or control oversight
60%+
Compliance teams rely on manual processes for audits and reporting
50%+
Organisations face increasing regulatory scrutiny across privacy, security, and resilience obligations
GOVERNANCE, RISK & ASSURANCE CAPABILITIES

Continuous visibility and control across security, risk, and compliance

DPS delivers governance, risk, and assurance capabilities designed to replace manual compliance efforts with automated evidence collection, continuous monitoring, and real-time risk visibility.

Continuous Compliance & Audit Readiness

Automate compliance evidence and stay audit-ready year-round

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Risk, Control & Assurance Visibility

Strengthen assurance with continuous risk and control visibility

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Continuous Compliance & Audit Readiness

Automate compliance evidence and stay audit-ready year-round

Manual evidence collection slows teams down and creates gaps in assurance. DPS delivers continuous compliance enablement using Drata to automate evidence collection, map controls to frameworks, and maintain real-time audit readiness across your environment.

Our capabilities include:
Automated evidence collection across cloud and security tools
Control mapping to frameworks (e.g. SOC 2, ISO 27001)
Continuous monitoring of control effectiveness
Audit-ready reporting and evidence packaging
Risk, Control & Assurance Visibility

Strengthen assurance with continuous risk and control visibility

Governance and assurance require more than point-in-time checks. DPS uses Drata to provide continuous insight into control posture, surface gaps early, and support faster remediation—helping security and compliance teams demonstrate confidence to auditors and customers.

Our capabilities include:
Real-time compliance posture dashboards
Risk and control gap visibility with guided remediation
Vendor and third-party assurance support (where applicable)
Trust-facing artefacts to support customer assurance reviews