Nordic Cyber Group Australia
Cybersecurity, Operational Risk & Compliance Professional Services
Australian regulatory fluency, European regulatory depth, and security-cleared consultants who can work where it matters.
From Stockholm to Melbourne.
Nordic Cyber Group was founded in Stockholm and built its practice under some of the most demanding regulatory regimes in the world — DORA, NIS 2, GDPR and the EU AI Act. We now run an Australian practice from Melbourne, applying that same discipline to the Australian regulatory landscape.
That experience shapes how we work in Australia. We bring the same regulatory rigour, control discipline and attention to evidence that European requirements demand, then apply it in a way that fits the Australian regulatory and operating environment.
Who you will be working with
Liam Allison
Country Lead, Australia
Melbourne, Victoria
Liam leads Nordic Cyber Group in Australia, running delivery for Australian clients across regulated industry and government. They are the first point of contact for every Australian engagement.
Government & critical infrastructure
Cleared to work where it counts
Government and critical infrastructure work has an entry requirement before capability is even assessed: cleared people who can be in the room. Our Australian consultants meet it.
Our Australian consultants hold current Australian Government security clearances, and can be engaged on work where clearance is a condition of award.
Security-cleared consultants
Our Australian consultants hold current Australian Government security clearances, so cleared engagements do not wait on a vetting process before they can start.
Australian government delivery experience
Years of assurance and uplift work inside Commonwealth and state agencies, and for the suppliers those agencies onboard — we already know how agency governance, gate reviews and evidence expectations work.
Defence and national security sector experience
Experience supporting organisations that supply into defence and national security programmes, including the security governance and evidence those programmes ask for before award.
Critical infrastructure and regulated industry
Delivery for responsible entities under the SOCI Act and for APRA-regulated institutions, where the obligation is set by a regulator rather than by a customer.
Assessor-recognised credentials
Our consultants hold the professional certifications assessors and audit committees look for, and we work to the same frameworks an IRAP assessor, ISO auditor or APRA review will apply.
Onshore delivery and data handling
Australian engagements are delivered by our Melbourne-based team, and client evidence and data stay in Australia — so onshoring requirements are satisfied by how we work, not by an exception.
Our Australian Services
We bring the same service pillars we deliver in Europe, tailored to the priorities, risks and regulatory expectations of the Australian market.
Digital Compliance & Cybersecurity
The Australian regulatory and assurance work an Australian board, regulator or procurement panel will ask you about.
- Cyber maturity and risk assessments — Essential Eight, ISM, NIST CSF, ISO 27001
- Regulatory compliance and assurance — CPS 234, CPS 230, SOCI/CIRMP, Privacy Act
- Government sector assurance — IRAP, PSPF and hosting certification
- Security testing — penetration testing, red teaming and vulnerability management
- Third-party and supply chain risk
- Operational resilience — business continuity, incident response and crisis simulation
- Security advisory and vCISO services
- GRC technology selection and implementation
Identity Security
Our five identity capabilities — IGA, PAM, CIAM, access management and trust services — applied to Australian access, verification and trust obligations.
- Identity strategy, operating model and roadmap
- Identity governance and administration (IGA) — access lifecycle, reviews, role design and the access evidence Essential Eight and CPS 234 reviews turn on
- Privileged access management (PAM) — privileged account discovery, vaulting and session control
- Customer identity and access management (CIAM) — onboarding journeys, consent and preference management
- Access management (AM) — zero trust and modern authentication, passwordless, MFA and conditional access
- Digital identity, verification and trust services — eIDAS in Europe, Digital ID Act, AGDIS and TDIF alignment in Australia
- Managed identity services and operational support
Digital Fraud & Financial Crime
AUSTRAC-facing programme work and the fraud and scams controls Australian customers are losing money to today.
- AML/CTF program design and independent review
- Tranche 2 readiness for newly regulated sectors
- Customer due diligence — KYC/KYB, screening and sanctions
- Transaction monitoring optimisation and model validation
- Fraud and scam prevention — account takeover, mule detection, payments fraud
- Financial crime technology selection and implementation
- Investigations, remediation and look-back reviews
- Managed analytics and monitoring services
Regulatory applicability, thresholds and commencement dates change, and nothing here is legal advice — talk to us about your specific circumstances.
How we can be engaged
Australian work reaches us in more than one way. Where the budget sits on a panel arrangement or with an incumbent supplier, we are just as willing to deliver underneath it as in front of it.
Direct consulting engagement
A scoped statement of work with our consultants delivering it end to end, contracted directly with you.
Contractor and embedded resourcing
Our consultants working inside your team under your direction, for a defined period — useful when the gap is capacity and continuity rather than a discrete piece of work.
Subcontracting to primes and panels
We deliver the security, identity or financial crime component under another supplier's head contract, including work that reaches government through an existing panel arrangement.
Partnership and joint delivery
Joint delivery with local firms, integrators and product vendors, where our specialists cover the part of the engagement their team does not.
Managed and retained services
Ongoing operational support and monitoring on a retained basis, rather than a project that ends and leaves the running of it with you.
Why a Nordic firm in Australia
European regulatory depth, applied locally
We built this practice under DORA, NIS 2, GDPR and the EU AI Act. Those regimes are years ahead of most jurisdictions on operational resilience and third-party risk — the thinking transfers directly to CPS 230, SOCI and the Privacy Act.
One adviser across both jurisdictions
If you are an Australian subsidiary of a European group, or an Australian firm selling into Europe, you are carrying two regulatory regimes. We are one of very few boutiques that can hold both without handing you to a second firm.
Senior-only delivery
The consultant who scopes your engagement delivers it. No pyramid, no bench, no graduate doing the interviews and a partner presenting the findings.
Cleared to be in the room
Security clearance is an entry requirement for government and critical infrastructure work, not a differentiator you can develop mid-engagement. Our Australian consultants hold current clearances.
Questions Australian clients ask us
Does Nordic Cyber Group have consultants in Australia?
Yes. Nordic Cyber Group runs an Australian practice from Melbourne, led by Liam Allison as Country Lead, Australia. Australian engagements are delivered by that team, with the Stockholm practice available where an engagement touches European regulation.
Do your Australian consultants hold security clearances?
Yes. Our Australian consultants hold current Australian Government security clearances and can be engaged on work where clearance is a condition of award. We can confirm the specific level required for your engagement on request.
Can you help us reach Essential Eight Maturity Level 2?
Yes. We assess your current maturity against each of the eight mitigation strategies, produce a prioritised and costed uplift roadmap, and build the evidence pack an assessor will ask for. Where you also hold ISO 27001, we run one control set that satisfies both rather than two parallel programmes.
Do you work with Victorian government suppliers?
Yes. The Victorian Protective Data Security Standards apply to Victorian public sector bodies and, importantly, flow through to the service providers they contract with. We support both sides of that relationship — Protective Data Security Plan work for agencies, and supplier attestation for the private-sector firms serving them.
We are an Australian subsidiary of a European group. Can you cover both regimes?
That is the case we are built for. We work under GDPR and the Australian Privacy Act simultaneously, and can map a single control environment against both European and Australian obligations rather than maintaining two disconnected compliance programmes.
Where is your Australian office?
Melbourne, at 90 Collins Street. Our head office is in Stockholm, Sweden. Australian enquiries are answered on Australian business hours, AEST/AEDT.
Talk to us in Melbourne
Australian enquiries reach our Melbourne office first. You will speak to the consultant who would run the work, not an account manager.
We respond to Australian enquiries within one business day.
Melbourne Office
- Australia
- +61 421 934 521
- Business hours
- Monday–Friday, 9:00–17:30 AEST/AEDT