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 IAM and PAM 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.
Every engagement starts with understanding your requirements. We work alongside your team to build pragmatic solutions that integrate people, processes, and automation, delivering incremental value and buying down risk. Our philosophy: maximise what you already have, not sell you more licences.
- 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 uplift, pen-testing, application monitoring, reporting governance, and secure collaboration with Microsoft Entra ID.
Federal Government
Essential Eight maturity, ISM compliance, sovereign delivery, and security-cleared engineering for federal and state agencies.
Healthcare & Pharmaceutical
Customer identity protection, IAM strategy, CIAM, OT assessment, modern workplace uplift, and SOCI compliance.
Transport & Infrastructure
OT/IT privilege separation, multi-site identity management, and conditional access frameword 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. Modern 42 specialises in every aspect of your identity perimeter: workforce, partner, customer, agentic, privileged, and non-person identities. Each engagement is shaped to 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 needs, from no-code configuration through to full end-to-end delivery.
Customer Obsessed
We listen before we advise. Every engagement starts with understanding your challenges, constraints, and goals, then advising on the right direction, not just the fastest one.
Maximise What You Have
Most organisations aren't getting full value from their existing tools. We consolidate what you don't need, maximise the platforms you keep, and close the gap between the security posture you're paying for and the one you have.
Research-Backed
Our M42 Labs division discovers and discloses vulnerabilities (CVEs) in the platforms we implement. Our engineers understand these products beyond the documentation, and that knowledge flows directly into every engagement.
100% Australian-Owned & Sovereign
Entirely Australian-owned with active security clearances. We deliver sovereign capability for organisations that require it. Your data, environment, and people, all supported locally.
Uplifting Your Capabilities
We equip your team to maintain and evolve your identity environment independently. Knowledge transfer is a standard part of every engagement.
Partnered with the platforms we really know
Advanced certifications and delivery partnerships with the vendors behind Australia's leading 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.
Azure AD B2C to Entra External ID migration partner
Microsoft and Modern 42 are partnering to migrate Australian organisations from Azure AD B2C to Microsoft Entra External ID. As the only Australian sovereign capability for this migration path, Modern 42 delivers end-to-end CIAM migration services with security-cleared engineers who understand Australian regulatory requirements.
Australian Sovereign
100% Australian-owned with security-cleared engineers. The only sovereign Microsoft-recommended partner for Entra External ID migrations in Australia.
Full Migration Lifecycle
From readiness assessment and architecture design through to phased migration, production cutover, and post-migration observability.
Regulated Industries
Purpose-built for healthcare, banking, government, and enterprise organisations with complex compliance and identity requirements.
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 across your IAM ecosystem to verify alignment to your ICT policies surfacing orphaned accounts, excessive entitlements, and automation gaps that your existing tools miss.
Reporting on Your Data Hygiene
Data-driven insight into your IAM practice. Without observability, you can't be sure your policies are being met. Apporetum provides a single pane of glass across HR, Active Directory, Microsoft Entra ID, and disconnected systems, identifying non-compliant processes and automation gaps.
Frequently asked questions
The essential answers to identity, privilege, and cyber security. Don't panic, we've got you covered.
Let’s talk about your identity challenges
No pitch decks. No pressure. Just a straightforward conversation about where you are, where you need to be, and how we can help you get there.
- Understand your current identity posture
- Identify quick wins and critical gaps
- Get actionable recommendations — no strings attached
Free 30 min discussion
No commitment required
Book a time that works for you. We’ll come prepared with initial observations about your industry and common identity challenges.