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Managed Compliance Services Australia
CyberPulse Managed Compliance Services (MCS) reduce audit effort and turn compliance into a business advantage, without hiring extra staff. We run your compliance programme as a managed service across frameworks such as Essential Eight, ISO 27001, SOC 2 and APRA CPS 234, keeping controls, evidence and reporting continuously audit-ready.
Trusted by leading Australian organisations
CyberPulse clients include Minter Ellison, Veolia, Sydney Roosters, Utopia Digital and Meshed.





Compliance Without Chaos
Our Managed Compliance Service (MCS) keeps you audit-ready year-round.
Led by former CISOs, auditors and cybersecurity consultants, we combine expert GRC advisory with platform integrations and hands-on execution to deliver results that matter.
Why Managed Compliance?
- ✓Faster Audits
- ✓Audit Pass Guarantee
- ✓Audit Experts on call
- ✓Reduce your teams efforts
“We don’t worry about audits anymore. CyberPulse made compliance a strategic asset.”
– Head of Security, SaaS Provider
Business Impact, Backed by Data
- 60% reduction in audit prep time (Ponemon Institute, 2023) 60%
- 129% increase in compliance team output (IDC x Vanta Report) 129%
- $2.18M saved per breach through automation (IBM Data Breach Report, 2023) 200%
- 70% breach reduction with mature awareness (SANS Institute, 2023) 70%
- 79% of data breaches involve third parties (Verizon DBIR, 2023) 79%
Find out more about Managed Compliance
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Our Managed Compliance Approach
Scope, Map and Automate
Our audit experts define applicable frameworks, map controls to your environment, and deploy GRC tooling with automated evidence capture and policy workflows.
Assess, Audit & Remediate
Out Internal Audit team run internal audits, conduct gap analysis, implement missing controls, and maintain a centralised, audit-ready evidence repository.
Certify, Assure & Respond
Our team manage the full certification process, coordinate with auditors, support trust portal operations, and respond to inbound risk assessments and questionnaires.
Our track record in numbers
Some of the frameworks we support
Compliance Automation
API-based integration across AWS, Azure, CrowdStrike, Jira, Okta, and 350+ platforms. Live dashboards. No more spreadsheets.
Audit Support
Internal Audits, end-to-end Audit Readiness, Auditor liaison and External Audits.
Remediation Management
Identified gaps mapped to prioritised action plans, tracked through resolution.
Framework Alignment
Automated control mapping to ISO 27001, SOC 2, PCI-DSS, CPS 234, HIPAA, IRAP, Essential 8, NIST, GDPR & more.
Evidence Repository
Centralised, version-controlled library with audit logs, policy records, and evidence tracking.
Board-Ready Reporting
Monthly and quarterly compliance KPIs, control status summaries, and heatmaps.
Trust Portal & Questionnaires
Branded portals, inbound assurance response workflows, and 3rd party due diligence.
Vendor Risk Management
Continuous monitoring of vendors from onboarding through performance and risk scoring.
Managed Penetration Testing
Continuous testing across internal, external, cloud, mobile, and API.
Actionable findings, risk-based prioritisation, and compliance-ready reporting.
Protecting Industry Leaders
We serve clients across sectors where trust, regulation, and risk intersect:
Finance & Insurance
Legal & Professional Services
Government, Education & Not-for-Profit
Healthcare & Aged Care
SaaS, Cloud & Technology Providers
Energy, Utilities & Critical Infrastructure
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Why CyberPulse?
Expertise
Award Winning Consultants with deep experience across all major cybersecurity and risk standards
Fixed-Price
Fixed-price delivery model with predictable costs and timelines
Support
End-to-end support – from gap analysis to certification and beyond
Managed compliance services in Australia
CyberPulse managed compliance is an ongoing Australian service that keeps your organisation audit-ready year-round by running the controls, evidence and workflows a security framework requires.
Compliance is not a one-off project; frameworks expect controls to keep operating and evidence to keep accumulating. CyberPulse’s Managed Compliance Service takes on that continuous work for Australian organisations, led by former CISOs, auditors and cybersecurity consultants. The team maps the framework to your environment, deploys governance, risk and compliance tooling, and automates evidence capture so proof is collected as controls run. This keeps clients audit-ready year-round rather than scrambling before each assessment, and reduces audit stress by drawing on records already in place. The service also includes policy workflows, a central evidence repository, internal audit support and help responding to customer risk assessments. Related functions such as vendor risk management and a virtual CISO can sit alongside it. Engagements begin with a free 30 minute compliance strategy call.
How CyberPulse’s managed compliance approach works
CyberPulse delivers managed compliance in three connected stages: scope, map and automate; assess, audit and remediate; then certify, assure and respond.
CyberPulse runs managed compliance as three connected stages. In the first, the team defines which frameworks apply, maps their controls to your environment, and deploys tooling to automate evidence collection. In the second, it conducts a gap analysis, then helps implement the controls that are missing or weak. In the third, it manages the certification process, coordinates with auditors, and helps you respond to assurance requests from customers. Because evidence is captured automatically as controls operate, audit preparation draws on records already in place rather than a last-minute scramble. The stages then repeat, which keeps the organisation audit-ready for the next cycle and helps avoid compliance drift. This suits Australian obligations, including breach notification duties, where being able to show working controls matters as much as holding the certificate.
Which frameworks managed compliance covers
CyberPulse managed compliance covers major standards including ISO 27001, SOC 2, the ASD Essential Eight, APRA CPS 234, IRAP and PCI-DSS.
Different obligations call for different frameworks, and CyberPulse supports the ones most relevant to Australian organisations. ISO 27001 sets out an information security management system. SOC 2 reports on controls relevant to service providers. The ASD Essential Eight is a set of eight baseline mitigation strategies published by the Australian Signals Directorate, measured against maturity levels. APRA CPS 234 applies to regulated financial entities. IRAP supports work involving government systems, and PCI-DSS applies where card payment data is handled. The team helps you identify which standards apply, then maps a single set of controls across them where they overlap, so you avoid duplicating effort. This is useful when you need to satisfy several frameworks at once without running separate programmes for each.
Frequently Asked Questions
What is a managed compliance service?
A managed compliance service is an ongoing arrangement where a provider keeps you audit-ready by running the controls, evidence collection and workflows a framework requires. It covers mapping controls, automating evidence, remediating gaps and coordinating certification. The aim is to reduce manual effort while keeping your controls demonstrably in place year-round.
What is the difference between managed compliance and a one-off audit?
A one-off audit checks your controls at a single point in time and then ends. Managed compliance runs continuously, capturing evidence as controls operate and remediating gaps between audits. This keeps you ready for the next assessment rather than preparing from scratch each cycle.
How long does it take to become certified, and what does it cost?
Timelines and cost depend on the framework, the size of your environment and how mature your existing controls are. ISO 27001 or SOC 2 readiness commonly takes several months, driven mainly by gap remediation and evidence gathering. CyberPulse scopes both timeline and price to your situation. Book the free 30 minute compliance strategy call for an estimate.
Which compliance frameworks does CyberPulse support?
CyberPulse supports ISO 27001, SOC 2, the ASD Essential Eight, APRA CPS 234, IRAP and PCI-DSS, among others. The frameworks you need depend on your industry, customers and regulatory obligations. Where several apply, the team maps overlapping controls once to reduce duplicated work.
What is the ASD Essential Eight?
The ASD Essential Eight is a set of eight baseline mitigation strategies published by the Australian Signals Directorate to help organisations protect against common cyber threats. Each strategy is assessed against defined maturity levels. CyberPulse helps map your controls to the Essential Eight and lift your maturity where gaps exist.
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The managed service model delivers that, while freeing my team from the bulk of compliance coordination effort and lifting the quality of both controls and supporting evidence. The outcome is a programme with the capacity to mature further and to take on new certification frameworks proactively, ahead of client and regulatory triggers.
What stands out is the depth of expertise. CyberPulse brings real command of the standards and the threat landscape, and applies it with judgement rather than box-ticking. Year on year they strengthen our security and compliance maturity and give leadership confidence that risk is genuinely understood, not just documented.
CyberPulse gave us clarity we didn't have before, not just on where we stood but a practical path forward. The roadmap they delivered has become the foundation of how we think about security investment.
Their guidance was practical, clear, and always grounded in what actually mattered for our business. They didn't just help us tick boxes; they helped us build a security posture we're genuinely proud of. If you're serious about enterprise-grade security, I can't recommend Cyber Pulse highly enough.