Clear direction before you start. Clarity before you build.
CEO-led advisory engagements that start with understanding your business, not recommending a product. We help you see where you are, define where you need to be, and build a roadmap you can actually deliver.
CEO-led. Technically rigorous. Vendor-neutral.
Our CEO has decades of experience working alongside CISOs, IAM architects, and executive stakeholders in some of the most complex and secure environments in Australia. That experience is not behind a desk. She is directly involved in every advisory engagement, which means you get someone who can translate business pain points into technical direction and hold both conversations at the same time.
Advisory engagements don't begin with a product recommendation. They begin with a rigorous understanding of the current state, the business objectives, and the constraints: budget, compliance, team capability, and existing technology investment.
The output is a clear picture of where you are, where you need to be, and a prioritised path to get there. Recommendations are grounded in the platforms you already have wherever possible.
What advisory engagements include
- Advisory backed by decades of experience
- Current state assessment
- Gap analysis against frameworks (Essential Eight, ISO 27001, NIST)
- Target architecture definition
- Prioritised roadmap
- Business case support
- Assistance with FinOps and Chargeback models where required
- IGA project interventions if required
Start with clarity,
not a product recommendation.
CEO-led advisory engagements that begin with a rigorous understanding of your current state, business objectives, and constraints. We help you understand where you are, define where you need to be, and build a roadmap grounded in your environment.
IAM & PAM Strategy & Roadmap
Architecture Advisory
Conditional Access Review
BeyondTrust Assessment
Application Governance Assessment
CIAM Migration Readiness Assessment
Common triggers for an advisory engagement.
These are the situations we most commonly see when organisations first reach out. If any apply to you, it's worth a conversation.
- New CISO or security lead establishing a baseline
- Upcoming APRA, IRAP, or ISO 27001 audit
- Post-incident review requiring identity control assessment
- Board or executive requesting a security posture report
- Planning a major platform migration (Entra ID, BeyondTrust)
- Merger or acquisition requiring identity consolidation
- An IGA or PAM project has stalled and requires an intervention.
- Your IAM tooling is legacy and needs to be replaced.
See the work delivered
Strategy, architecture and roadmap engagements that gave organisations clarity and direction.
View all case studiesTransforming Identity and Cyber Capability for a Federal Government Department
A large Australian Government department partnered with Modern 42 to overhaul its identity infrastructure and strengthen its cyber security posture.
Defining the Digital Identity Blueprint for a Major Australian Bank
A well-established Australian community bank undergoing a significant digital transformation engaged Modern 42 to architect its future-state identity capability, ensuring its digital ecosystem could securely serve customers, employees and partners.
IAM Strategy, Conditional Access Uplift and CIAM Blueprint for a National Health Services Organisation
A national health services organisation, designated as critical infrastructure, engaged Modern 42 to define its IAM strategy and deliver targeted security uplifts across its broad identity ecosystem.
Questions about advisory engagements
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Ready to move forward? Pick your path.
Whether you need a quick conversation, a structured assessment, or hands-on engineering, we’ve got an engagement that fits.
Start a conversation
30 minutes. No commitment. Let’s understand your environment and discuss where identity security can add the most value.
Get an assessment
Identity maturity assessment, gap analysis, or architecture review. Walk away with a clear picture and a prioritised roadmap.
Engage our engineers
PAM migration, identity modernisation, CIAM build, or platform uplift. Our specialist engineers deliver what your team needs.