Security Solution Consultants provides cyber security services in Sydney for organisations caught between two compliance pressures that are live right now, and both arrive through contracts rather than through regulation aimed directly at you.
APRA CPS 230 commenced on 1 July 2025, and transitional arrangements for pre-existing material service provider contracts expired on 1 July 2026. If you supply a bank, insurer, private health insurer or RSE licensee in a way that supports a critical operation, you are being reassessed. APRA-regulated entities must notify APRA within 20 business days of a new or materially changed agreement, and before any material offshoring.
The NSW Cyber Security Policy 2026 to 2027, issued in July 2026, embeds the Essential Eight at Maturity Level One across mandatory requirements 3.3 to 3.10. Agency attestations are due 31 October, which is what drives the supplier assessment requests landing through the third quarter.
Our Cyber Security Services in Sydney
- CPS 230 material service provider readiness. Operational resilience, tolerance levels, and the evidence an APRA-regulated client needs before they can sign you off.
- CPS 234 information security assessment. Control testing and material weakness identification, including the notification obligation under paragraph 36.
- NSW Cyber Security Policy supplier assurance. Independent Essential Eight Maturity Level One assessment mapped to the 31 mandatory requirements, timed for the October attestation.
- ISO 27001 ISMS certification. The most efficient single foundation when you face CPS 230, the NSW policy and customer questionnaires at the same time.
- SOCI and CIRMP advisory. Relevant to Sydney’s data centre concentration following the December 2024 extension of obligations to data storage systems holding business critical data.
- Security maturity assessment and board reporting. Benchmarking a board can act on, rather than another heat map.
Why Sydney Is Different
Financial and insurance services generate 15.4 percent of Greater Sydney’s economic output, rising to 29.4 percent within the City of Sydney local government area. Professional services add another 12.6 percent. That concentration means a large share of Sydney businesses sit somewhere inside an APRA-regulated supply chain, often without realising it until an assurance questionnaire arrives.
When we scope cyber security services in Sydney, the first question is usually not which framework you want, but who your customers are regulated by. That determines what you actually have to evidence, and it is frequently CPS 230 rather than anything you chose for yourself.
GRCLens: One Control Model, Many Frameworks
GRCLens, our multi-framework GRC platform, maps CPS 230, CPS 234, the NSW policy, ISO 27001 and SOCI to a single shared control model. Evidence captured once satisfies several obligations at the same time, with dashboards your risk committee can read without translation.
Why Sydney Organisations Choose Security Solution Consultants
- We work both sides of the CPS 230 relationship, for regulated entities and for the providers they assess.
- Assessment output written for the assessor, so your client can accept it without a second round of questions.
- Consultants who deliver these engagements daily across banking, insurance, superannuation and critical infrastructure.
- Fixed-scope delivery, so cyber security services in Sydney come with a defined deliverable and price rather than an open retainer.
Frequently Asked Questions
When did CPS 230 actually commence?
1 July 2025. This is commonly misstated as 2026. The APRA determination dated 23 April 2026 and commencing 1 July 2026 is the non-traditional service provider amendment, not a delay to the regime itself.
We are not APRA regulated. Why are we being asked about CPS 230?
Because you are a material service provider to an entity that is. The obligation belongs to them, but it flows to you contractually, and their transitional relief for pre-existing contracts ended on 1 July 2026. That is why the requests intensified this year.
Does the NSW Cyber Security Policy apply to us?
It binds NSW departments, public service agencies, statutory authorities and bodies reporting to a secretary, minister or the Premier. It expressly does not mandate state-owned corporations, non-government organisations, local government or universities. Suppliers are reached through agency assurance rather than directly.
What Essential Eight maturity level does NSW require?
Maturity Level One, under mandatory requirements 3.3 to 3.10. This is lower than the Commonwealth’s Maturity Level Two for non-corporate Commonwealth entities, so evidence prepared for one is not automatically sufficient for the other.
What do cyber security services in Sydney typically cost?
It depends on scope, and any firm quoting before understanding your environment is guessing. A CPS 230 evidence pack is a different exercise from full ISO 27001 certification. We scope to a fixed price after a short discovery call.
Get Started
If you need cyber security services in Sydney from a team that works to the actual instruments, request a CPS 230 readiness review, an Essential Eight assessment, or a GRCLens demo. Contact us to talk it through. We also work in Melbourne, Brisbane and across New Zealand.
