Governance, Risk, and Compliance (GRC) refer to the combined strategies designed to help businesses achieve their objectives whilst still meeting compliance requirements
ISO27001
Our team is fully trained and qualified in ISO27001, which is the international standard for managing information security. This means you can be sure of your compliance, and your customers can feel safe that you are handling their information securely and responsibly.
ASD Essential 8
The Australian Signals Directorate (ASD) lays out eight essential mitigation strategies as a baseline for your security mitigation. Implemented correctly, the ASD claims that ASD Essential 8 will mitigate up to 85% of the most common cyber threats.
NCSC Cyber Essentials
Cyber Essentials is a Government-backed scheme that provides fundamental controls to protect your businesses from 80% of the most basic cyber security breaches. The five controls include; firewalls, secure configuration, user access control, malware protection and security update management.
PCI DSS
The Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS) is implemented to ensure your business adheres to the global standard of Visa and MasterCard management to reduce the risk of a card data breach.
APRA CPS 234
This compliance framework ensures you have implemented sufficient information security protections and applies to the Australian financial services industry. At The Missing Link, our team will take measures to ensure your business is resilient against cyber security attacks by managing your security capabilities.
Information Security Manual (ISM)
The ISM helps organisations to develop efficient risk management frameworks that protect their information and systems from cyber threats. We follow the guidelines in the cyber security framework that promotes a risk management strategy. In addition, we work to protect your information and systems from cyber threats.
Victorian Protective Data Security Framework (VPDSF)
Victorian public sector agencies benefit from fulfilling data security obligations. There are several documents and policies the VPDSF expects applicable agencies will have in place, and The Missing Link team can help ensure you are up to date.
NSW Cyber Security Policy (NSW CSP)
The requirements of the NSW CSP policy include strengthening cyber security governance, identifying valuable or operationally vital systems or information, strengthening cyber security controls, and developing a cyber security culture across all staff.
Defence Industry Security Program (DISP)
If you are an Australian business currently working with Defence, you will have an obligation to contribute to the security of our people, information and assets. The Missing Link team can help you get the correct security requirements when delivering Defence contracts and tenders.
Find out how The Missing Link can help your business manage your compliance and cyber risks
Governance, Risk, and Compliance (GRC) can offer businesses the security of running their business without crossing any regulatory lines.
Ensure compliance: GRC is often an overlooked element of business. But we must improve resilience and prepare for disruption to remain relevant and deliver value to your customers or clients.
Risk visibility: At The Missing Link, we focus our GRC efforts on a holistic risk viability model. This includes:
Compliance/ Regulatory: The degree to which non-compliance can affect regulatory obligations.
Aligning business goals: Using GRC the correct way means you can align all GRC efforts with your business goals and use insights to strengthen and protect your business.
Manage your cybersecurity with our governance and risk management strategy.
Governance, Risk and Compliance refers to the structured framework organisations use to manage cyber risk, meet regulatory obligations and align security controls with business objectives.
Governance defines accountability and oversight. Risk management identifies and prioritises threats. Compliance ensures controls align with recognised standards.
The Missing Link helps organisations implement practical GRC frameworks that integrate security, regulation and executive accountability.
Applicable frameworks depend on industry and regulatory exposure. Common Australian standards include ISO 27001, ASD Essential Eight, APRA CPS 234, DISP, ISM and state-based policies such as the NSW Cyber Security Policy and VPDSF.
The Missing Link assesses your regulatory environment and aligns controls to the frameworks relevant to your sector and operational risk profile.
Essential Eight maturity assessments evaluate how effectively your organisation implements the eight mitigation strategies recommended by the Australian Signals Directorate.
Assessment involves reviewing patch management, multi-factor authentication, application control, and other controls against defined maturity levels.
The Missing Link conducts structured Essential Eight gap assessments and provides a roadmap to improve maturity while balancing operational impact.
Compliance focuses on meeting defined regulatory or industry standards. Risk management focuses on identifying and reducing threats that could impact your organisation.
While related, compliance alone does not eliminate risk.
The Missing Link integrates risk management into compliance programs so controls are practical, measurable and aligned to real-world threat exposure.
Effective GRC provides measurable visibility into cyber risk posture, control effectiveness, and regulatory exposure.
Structured reporting allows executives and boards to understand residual risk, compliance gaps, and investment priorities.
The Missing Link supports organisations with governance frameworks and reporting models that strengthen executive oversight and defensibility.
Cyber risk assessments should be conducted annually at a minimum, and more frequently when significant infrastructure, regulatory, or business changes occur.
Ongoing monitoring is critical as threat landscapes and compliance obligations evolve.
The Missing Link provides recurring risk assessments and maturity reviews to ensure your governance framework remains aligned with operational reality.
The Missing Link did a great job delivering the first step on our digital security journey. Our network refresh replaced ageing equipment with more modern technology to prevent, detect and respond to the growing digital threats. The Missing Link also worked to incorporate other security focused solutions via the ASD as a Service. This combined approach has allowed us to take a proactive and significant step forward in protecting our corporate and regulatory data. The Missing Link has always gone above and beyond, our relationship with them is a proper partnership.
The Missing Link helped us to understand our current level of maturity against the ASD Essential 8. The expertise and in-depth knowledge provided by their Security Consultants helped us immensely to decipher where we currently stand, and they delivered a roadmap to improve our overall security posture as well. Their team were very easy to deal with, and at the end of the project they delivered a brilliant report that included concise action items. I would highly recommend The Missing Link to any organisation looking to implement the ASD Essential 8.
Working with The Missing Link has fundamentally changed the way we do things. They have identified outdated processes that other IT experts have not commented on, and they’ve given us guidance on how to fix them with clear start and endpoints. The Missing Link’s advice and service are incredibly good, we would recommend them to anybody needing to meet ISO standards.
"We’d been working towards aligning our organisation with the Australian Signals Directorate Essential Eight (ASD8), but when our executive team made it a priority, we knew we had to bring in external support. The Missing Link was the obvious solution – they’d been working with us since we operated from internal servers, had migrated us to the cloud, and were managing our infrastructure. They knew our business so well that they barely needed a brief. They completed a Security Controls Review, identified areas needing work and provided full costings. Now we’re working together to reach ASD8 maturity.”
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