Identity security, engineered for your success.
We assess, design, build and operate identity and privilege platforms for Australia's most regulated organisations. Advisory-led. Engineering-driven. 100% Australian-owned and sovereign.
Trusted by leading Australian organisations
End-to-end identity specialists. advisory, engineering and development.
Modern 42 is a specialist identity and privilege consultancy. Our consultants, architects, engineers and developers provide end-to-end services, from strategy and architecture through to hands-on engineering and operations. We are highly experienced, accredited and respected for what we do.
We place great emphasis on listening to our clients and understanding their unique challenges. By working alongside your team we create pragmatic solutions that integrate people, processes, tools and automation, delivering incremental value, increasing organisational efficiency and buying down risk. Our philosophy is to maximise the value of the systems you already have, not just sell you licences to the latest and greatest.
- Certified engineers across Microsoft and BeyondTrust platforms
- AGSVA cleared staff
- Research-backed implementations from our M42 Labs division
- Australian-based team with transparent, outcome-focused engagements
- End-to-end delivery: assess, design, build, operate, and support
Strategic Advisory defines the target. Engineering delivers it.
Strategy meets execution. Every Modern 42 engagement is scoped to your needs and right-sized for your organisation.
Strategic Advisory
We like to start by understanding your business, not your technology. Knowing the whys often drives the hows. Identity maturity assessments, strategy roadmaps, architecture reviews, and zero trust readiness.
Engineering & Delivery
Our specialist architects and engineers go beyond the documentation. PAM migrations, identity modernisation, CIAM engineering, and identity observability, delivered by the team that Australia's most complex environments trust.
of organisations experienced an identity-related breach in the past year
2023 Trends in Securing Digital Identities // Identity Defined Security Alliance
Technology we specialise in
Our engineers hold deep, vendor-certified expertise across the platforms that power enterprise identity.
Microsoft Entra ID
Conditional Access
Build framework driven policies for Zero Trust
PIM
Manage Privileged Roles and Identities
MFA
Enable Multi-factor and move towards Phish-Resistant Methods
Access Reviews
Periodic entitlement review
Lifecycle Workflows
Joiner, mover, leaver
Global Secure Access
Zero-Trust Networking
Govern Application
Govern your Workload Identities and Agent AIs
Entra External ID
Identity Migration
Migrate users from Azure B2C and Auth0
SSO Customisation
Customize sign-in and registration experiences
CIAM MFA
Multi-factor authentication for customer identities
Closed Community
Invite-only access for partner ecosystems
Customer Lifecycle
Onboarding, Offboarding, Step Up
B2B / B2C
External identity federation
JIT Migration
Just-In-Time migration from B2C and Legacy CIAM IDPs
BeyondTrust
Password Safe
Credential vault & rotation
Pathfinder
Credential vault & rotation
EPM
Endpoint Privilege Management
PRA
Privileged Remote Access
Remote Support
Secure remote assistance
Entitle
Privilege just-in-time access.
Identity Security
Directory bridge & SSO
Active Directory
Entra Connect
Optimize and build monitoring for Entra Connect
Hybrid Identity Management
CIAM at scale
Windows Hello for Business
Single sign-on
MIM / FIM
Provisioning & deprovisioning
ASD AD Assessment
Provisioning & deprovisioning
AD Security
Provisioning & deprovisioning
Microsoft 365
Intune
Device & application management
SharePoint
Collaboration and content management
Microsoft Teams
Unified communication and collaboration
Security Copilot
AI-powered security operations
M365 Copilot
AI assistant for productivity and collaboration
Defender
Unified security and threat protection
Trusted by organisations that can't afford to get identity or privilege wrong.
Our clients include some of Australia's largest banks, federal government agencies, and major healthcare, transport, and pharmaceutical organisations. You won't see their logos here because we protect our clients' privacy as seriously as we protect their identities.
Banking & Financial Services
APRA CPS 234 compliance, privileged access governance, Conditional Access pen-testing and uplift, application monitoring, reporting governance, and secure collaboration with Entra ID.
Federal Government
Sovereign delivery, Essential Eight maturity, ISM compliance, self-service application onboarding, and security-cleared engineers for federal and state agencies.
Healthcare & Pharmaceutical
Customer identity protection, IAM strategy, OT assessment, CIAM for healthcare portals, modern workplace uplift, and SOCI compliance.
Transport & Infrastructure
OT/IT privilege separation, multi-site identity management, and conditional access frameworks for operational technology environments.
Retail
Identity access reviews, identity governance uplift, privileged access management, Identity Observability, and CIAM migration.
Education
Student and staff identity lifecycle management, multi-tenant architectures, PAM migration, and secure collaboration with Entra ID.
What sets Modern 42 apart
We are not a generalist consultancy. M42 specialises in strengthening all aspects of your identity perimeter including Workforce Identity, Partner Identity, Customer Identity, Privileged Identities and Non-Person Identities. Each engagement is shaped to meet your needs.
Engineering Mindset, Driven by Advisory
Our engineers don't just implement, they are guided by senior advisory that understands your business context first. We tailor technology to your specific needs through rigorous engineering, from no-code through to full end-to-end delivery that aligns with your requirements and capabilities.
Customer Obsessed
We listen before we advise. Every engagement starts with understanding your challenges, your constraints, and where you need to go. We drive positive change by making sure we are advising on the correct direction, not just the fastest one.
Maximise What You Have
Most organisations have too many tools and are not getting full value from the ones they already own. We help rationalise and consolidate tooling you don't need, maximise outcomes from the platforms you keep, and close the gap so you get the security posture you are already paying for, not sell you more licences.
Research-Backed
Our M42 Labs division actively discovers and discloses vulnerabilities (CVEs) in the platforms we implement. This means our engineers understand these products at a depth that goes beyond the documentation, and that knowledge flows directly into every engagement.
100% Australian-Owned & Sovereign
Modern 42 is wholly Australian-owned. Our team holds active security clearances and delivers sovereign capability for organisations that require it. Your data, your environment, your people, all supported locally.
Uplifting Your Capabilities
We equip your team with the knowledge to maintain and evolve your identity environment independently. You shouldn't be dependent on us long-term. Knowledge transfer is a standard part of how we deliver.
Partnered with the platforms we really know
We hold advanced certifications and delivery partnerships with industry leading vendors behind enterprise identity and privilege platforms.
Microsoft Identity & Access Management Specialisation
Active in Australia's cyber community
Our team regularly presents at major Australian cyber security conferences, sharing research, findings, and hard-won engineering knowledge with the broader community.
Australia's identity security partner
Australian enterprises, state agencies, and federal government bodies choose Modern 42 as their trusted partner for Identity, Privilege, and Cyber Security.
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Apporetum: see across your entire identity ecosystem
Apporetum, our identity observability platform, gives organisations a single pane of glass across their entire identity ecosystem. Available on the Azure Marketplace, it quantitatively measures the effectiveness of your IAM and PAM controls so you can see exactly where you stand and what needs to change.
Confidence Your IAM Controls Are Working
Having an IGA tool in place is not the same as knowing it works. Apporetum gives you full visibility of the data in your ecosystem so you can verify alignment to your ICT policies.
Orphaned accounts, excessive entitlements, missing or incorrect data — if any of these exist, your tools or processes aren't delivering. Apporetum surfaces the evidence.
Reporting on Your Data Hygiene
Data-driven insight into your IAM practice. Without observability you simply can't be sure your policies are being met.
Identify non-compliant manual processes and automation gaps through a single pane of glass across HR, Active Directory, Microsoft Entra ID, and disconnected systems.
Frequently asked questions
The essential answers to identity, privilege, and cyber security. Don't panic, we've got you covered.
Ready to secure your identity environment?
Whether you need a maturity assessment, a migration plan, or hands-on engineering, we start by understanding your business.