Your clients — SMEs, listed companies, AFSL holders — face Privacy Act obligations, APRA requirements, and Board-level cyber governance questions they cannot answer internally. You refer. We assess. You receive a referral fee and your client gets Board-ready evidence.
Your advisory practice covers strategy, compliance planning, and regulatory guidance — but not the technical assessment that proves posture. That's where we come in.
AFSL holders and super funds carry specific APRA CPS 234 and Privacy Act obligations. When your client asks about cyber governance, you have an answer. We handle the assessment.
Business advisory clients increasingly face cyber questions from insurers, procurement teams, and regulators. A GRC assessment gives them documented evidence without requiring technical expertise from your practice.
Directors need to demonstrate they've exercised due care on cyber risk. A Board-ready GRC assessment gives them documented evidence of the organisation's external posture.
When APRA, the OAIC, or a sector regulator asks questions, your client needs evidence — not assurances. Our assessments provide sourced, framework-mapped findings.
Government and enterprise procurement increasingly requires GRC evidence. A structured assessment with framework mapping satisfies the requirements your client can't produce internally.
After a breach, your client needs to understand what was visible before the incident. A passive assessment reconstructs the external picture without interfering with forensics.
No technical expertise required from your side. No client confusion. No overlap with your legal services.
The trustee has no cyber assessment capability. You refer them to BlackFlag Advisory. We deliver a passive assessment within 7 days — risk register, framework mapping, Board-ready summary. The auditor gets the evidence they need. You receive a referral fee and your client relationship is strengthened.
The insurer wants independent evidence before they price the policy. Your client has nothing to show them. You refer them to us. We produce the assessment. The insurer gets what they need, the client gets renewed, and you've added tangible value to the relationship.
The following is drawn from a real passive OSINT assessment conducted in 2026. Company details have been anonymised.
An ASX-listed retail company with over 200 locations nationally had its DMARC policy set to p=none — meaning anyone on the internet can send emails that appear to come from the company’s domain. No DKIM signing was configured. SPF was set to softfail.
In practical terms, a phishing email sent to a supplier, a customer, or a staff member — appearing to come from the company’s own domain — would pass most email filters. The company had no visibility of this. No privacy policy was published on their website.
The remediation was straightforward — configure DMARC to p=reject, add DKIM signing, and tighten SPF to -all. The cost: negligible. The exposure before the fix: significant.
An advisory client’s accountant or business advisor is often the first person they call when something goes wrong. Knowing this gap exists before the phishing email lands is the value of an external assessment.
The following is a reduced extract from a real BlackFlag Advisory assessment conducted in 2026. Company details have been anonymised. The full engagement includes a complete risk register, framework mapping, remediation roadmap, and Board-level executive summary.