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Australia · Enterprise & Government

Identity architecture & access governance.
Engineered for Australia.

MAITS provides independent identity architecture, cyber security and access governance advisory for Australian commercial enterprises, financial institutions and public sector entities. We align cloud and hybrid identity estates with the ASD Essential Eight, the Australian Government Information Security Manual (ISM) and APRA CPS 234.

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Trans-Tasman senior expertise.

Australian organisations operate under intense scrutiny regarding cyber resilience, credential theft and data breach notifications. Regulatory frameworks such as APRA CPS 234, the SOCI Act and Australian Cyber Security Centre (ACSC) baselines place identity at the very center of corporate defense.

MAITS delivers objective, specialist identity architecture free from vendor bias, software resale incentives or offshore generalist outsourcing.

Australian security frameworks

Direct alignment with Australian cyber standards and prudential requirements.

We translate Australian federal guidelines and industry regulations into enforceable technical controls in Microsoft Entra and enterprise identity platforms.

ESSENTIAL EIGHT

MFA & Privilege Restriction

Designing identity journeys to satisfy Essential Eight Maturity Levels 2 and 3: enforcing phishing-resistant MFA (FIDO2 passkeys, CBA), eliminating shared administrative credentials, and preventing privilege accumulation.

ISM GUIDELINES

Information Security Manual

Applying Australian Government ISM identity management principles across user registration, centralized authentication, credential lifecycle management, session inactivity timeouts and access control lists.

APRA CPS 234

Information Security Prudential Standard

Assisting regulated financial entities, banks, superannuation funds and insurers with robust logical access controls, third-party access governance and periodic user entitlement certifications.

PRIVACY & APPS

Australian Privacy Principles (APPs)

Architecting identity verification, customer sign-in (CIAM) and credential exchange around APP 11 (security of personal information) and data minimisation to reduce breach exposure.

Enterprise Microsoft Entra

Hardening Microsoft Entra across Australian corporate tenants.

Australian enterprises extensively utilize Microsoft cloud services hosted across the Australia East (Sydney) and Australia Southeast (Melbourne) regions. Yet many environments suffer from standing administrative access, legacy hybrid sync, and fragmented Conditional Access policies that fail to enforce phishing-resistant controls.

MAITS helps Australian organisations architect and execute:

  • Essential Eight MFA Uplift: Phasing out SMS, voice and basic push MFA in favor of hardware security keys and managed device-bound passkeys.
  • Privileged Identity Management (PIM): Implementing just-in-time role activation with multi-person approval, ticketing justification and time-bound elevation for all Azure and Entra administrative roles.
  • Conditional Access Hardening: Designing structured personas, trusted device compliance rules, and strict risk-based sign-in evaluations.
  • Third-Party & Supply Chain Access: Governing B2B collaboration and contractor access with automated expiration and recurring sponsor review.
  • Hybrid Identity Transition: Decoupling dependencies from legacy on-premises Active Directory to cloud-native Entra ID Join and cloud authentication.

Capabilities in Australia

Specialist identity services delivered for Australian clients.

Engage our team for targeted assessments, architectural guidance or independent assurance of major identity programmes.

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Essential Eight IAM Review

Targeted assessment of your current MFA implementation, Conditional Access policies and administrative privilege controls against ACSC maturity requirements.

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02

Phishing-Resistant Passkeys

Architecture, policy design and user-journey engineering for deploying FIDO2 security keys and passkeys across corporate fleets.

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05

Architecture Advisory

Independent review of vendor proposals, solution architectures and multi-tenant cloud designs before major capital expenditure.

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06

Security Uplift

Comprehensive Zero Trust architecture review, modernizing legacy authentication protocols and establishing continuous access evaluation.

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Whether you are assessing Essential Eight MFA readiness, redesigning Conditional Access, or governing third-party access, MAITS provides authoritative expertise.

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