A specialist practice built around one idea: compliance should be simpler than it is
Compliance365 is an Australian specialist practice delivering cyber, privacy, and AI governance for mid-market and enterprise organisations — senior-led, fixed-price, with audit-ready evidence at every milestone.
- Based in Brisbane
- Serving Australia nationally
- Senior-led delivery
- Fixed-price engagements
- 100% first-time pass rate
Who we are
Compliance365 is a deliberately small specialist practice. Engagements are delivered by a senior practitioner end-to-end — the same person who scopes the programme designs the controls, configures the environment, and signs off the evidence. No partner pitching, no junior handover, no account manager between you and the work.
That structure is a choice, not a limitation. We work with a focused number of clients at any one time so that every engagement gets senior attention. If you're looking for a large consultancy with hundreds of consultants and a project pyramid, that's not us. If you want the person who scopes your programme to be the same person delivering it, that's exactly who we are.
Why Compliance365 exists
Compliance too often arrives as a project that disrupts the organisation, absorbs months of senior time, produces a folder of policies nobody reads, and still leaves the team anxious about the next audit.
We've seen the same pattern across Australian SaaS companies, mid-market manufacturers, regulated healthcare businesses, and government-adjacent technology firms:
- Over-scoped programmes that never seem to close
- Generic templates that don't reflect how the organisation actually works
- New tools pushed as mandatory when the existing stack already does the job
- Long timelines that stall deals, contracts, and funding rounds
- Evidence reconstructed at the last minute rather than captured as work happens
- Junior consultants learning on your time, at your cost
The truth is that most organisations already have most of what they need. What's missing is a clear, defensible way to turn existing reality into evidence that auditors, customers, and procurement teams can trust.
Compliance365 was built to close that gap — with a methodology that's lean, repeatable, and built around what auditors actually look for, not what generates the most billable hours.
Who we serve
Mid-market & Enterprise
Procurement panels that demand evidence — not just a policy document. ISO 27001, Essential Eight, SOC 2 and ISO 42001 with vCISO integration.
ISO 27001 for enterprise →SaaS & Technology
Enterprise buyers require SOC 2 or ISO 27001 before signing. We deliver both — often simultaneously — with reusable evidence for every deal.
SOC 2 for SaaS →Government & Defence
Defence panel entry, DISP, IRAP and Essential Eight maturity. We map your existing M365 stack to ASD and ISM requirements.
Essential Eight & DISP →Healthcare & Regulated
Privacy Act, My Health Records Act, APRA CPS 234 — ISO 27001 + 27701 with DPIA workflows and regulator-ready evidence.
Privacy & ISO 27701 →How we work — and why it's different
We're not a large consulting firm, a third-party GRC vendor selling you software licences and calling it done, or an IT managed services provider with a compliance add-on. We're a specialist practice — which means the way we work is structurally different.
Senior-led, end-to-end
Every engagement is delivered by a senior practitioner. The same person who scopes the programme, designs the controls, configures the environment, and signs off the evidence. No handoffs to junior staff, no account manager between you and the person doing the work.
Fixed-price, milestone-gated
All engagements are fixed-price with milestone-based payments tied to evidenced outcomes. You only pay when controls are demonstrably delivered to the agreed standard. This protects you from cost overruns and aligns our incentives with your outcome — not our utilisation.
Evidence at the point of change
We capture configuration exports, policy records, and decision logs as work happens — not retrospectively at milestone close. Evidence that's reconstructed is evidence that doesn't survive scrutiny. Ours does.
Inside your environment
Controls, policies, and runbooks are built inside your Microsoft 365 environment — not in a third-party GRC platform that creates dependency and ongoing subscription cost. Everything we build belongs to you from day one.
Honest about risk and exceptions
Where operational reality requires a deviation from the framework, we document it, risk-assess it, time-bound it, and get it approved. ML2 or ISO 27001 with a clean exception register is more defensible than a certificate hiding known gaps.
Built for Australian organisations
We work within the Australian regulatory context — PSPF, SOCI Act, Privacy Act, APRA guidance, ASD frameworks. Not a US-first methodology localised for Australian compliance theatre, but a practice built around how Australian procurement, regulation, and assurance actually work.
Our track record
Engagements completed across Australian SaaS, healthcare, defence-adjacent technology, and government-adjacent organisations.
What we deliver
Three practice areas, all delivered using the same methodology and evidence infrastructure — so if you need more than one, the work overlaps rather than duplicates.
Cyber Security
ISO 27001, Essential Eight, SOC 2, DISP/ISM/IRAP, NIST CSF — practical controls, fast uplift, and audit-ready evidence. From first assessment through to certification and ongoing sustainment.
Privacy
ISO 27701, Australian Privacy Act compliance — DPIAs, ROPAs, data rights workflows, consent management, and third-party privacy risk. Built on top of ISO 27001 so there's no duplication of effort.
AI Governance
ISO 42001 AI Management System — model inventory, risk and impact assessments, human oversight, monitoring, and audit-ready evidence. Aligned to the Australian AI Safety Standard and EU AI Act supply chain obligations.
What we stand for — PRIDE
Five principles that govern how we scope, deliver, and hand over every engagement. Each letter is something we'll be held to — not a slogan.
Put the client's outcome first
If you need Essential Eight ML1 more than ISO 27001, we'll scope the smaller engagement and say so. The 30-min call is diagnostic, not a pitch.
Reward long-term relationships
Surveillance audits and follow-on work are offered to existing clients at preferential rates. We'd rather earn the next three years through trust than maximise year one revenue.
Inspire confidence through evidence
Every control comes with an evidence artefact an auditor can independently verify — a configuration export, a workflow log, a decision record. Not a policy claiming the control exists.
Deliver with no shortcuts
Two weeks before any external audit, we run an internal dress rehearsal. If we wouldn't pass our own review, we don't book the external one. That's what produces the 100% pass rate.
Empower independence
Every engagement closes with runbooks, configurations, and drift detection in place — so your team can sustain the posture without ongoing dependency on us. You own everything we build.
Organisations we work with
We work with Australian organisations that need to demonstrate cyber, privacy, or AI governance to customers, insurers, regulators, or government procurement panels.
Mid-market organisations
100–500 staff. Complex environments, real operational constraints, vCISO governance, and procurement panels that demand evidence. ISO 27001, Essential Eight, SOC 2.
SaaS & technology
Enterprise procurement requires SOC 2 or ISO 27001 before signing. We deliver both — often simultaneously — with reusable evidence for every deal.
Government & defence-adjacent
Defence panel entry, DISP, IRAP, and Essential Eight maturity for government-adjacent organisations. M365 stack mapped to ASD and ISM requirements.
Healthcare & regulated sectors
My Health Records Act, Privacy Act, APRA CPS 234 — ISO 27001 and ISO 27701 delivered together with DPIA workflows and hospital procurement-ready evidence.
Want to know if we're the right fit?
A 30-minute call is the fastest way to find out. We'll ask about your situation, tell you honestly what you need, and give you a realistic picture of timeline and cost. No sales pitch, no obligation.
Based in Brisbane · Serving organisations across Australia
