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Organisations today are progressing their businesses at pace – investing in new initiatives, expanding capabilities, and leveraging new technology. As they grow, they are also working to protect the investments, operations, and assets that underpin their success.

In this environment, leaders are facing an increasingly complex risk landscape. Rising threats to business resilience and greater regulatory expectations create challenges that demand well-informed decision making.

Our Advisory team partners with boards, executives, and leaders to help navigate this landscape and build resilient, risk-aware organisations. We provide practical, focused support across the risks that emerge from cyber, data, and technology, delivered through three core pillars:

Understand

Identifying, assessing and quantifying the risks that matter most, providing visibility into exposures, obligations, and opportunities for improvement.

Plan

Designing pragmatic strategies, roadmaps, controls, and response approaches that strengthen resilience and ensure you are prepared for disruption.

Transform

Supporting organisations on their transformation journey by providing independent and objective advice focused on driving successful outcomes.

Our specialists help identify risks, strengthen key controls and processes, and support you in meeting your obligations. Whether you’re preparing for technology-driven transformation, responding to a live cyber event, or restoring and strengthening operations, we provide clear, actionable guidance that helps increase success, improve return on investment, minimise disruption, and maintain trust.

Cyber, Data and Technology Advisory

We partner with organisations to strengthen cyber readiness, uplift technology risk management, and support resilience before, during, and after disruption. Our services are delivered through three core pillars: Understand, Plan, and Transform.

Cyber

We work with organisations to understand their current cyber risks, plan uplift to manage these risks effectively, and transform their organisation’s cyber capabilities. As organisations continue to invest in more technology, as threats continue to grow in volume, velocity, and sophistication, and as regulatory obligations grow, we are focused on assisting clients to evolve their cyber operations at speed, aligned to their business needs.

Data Privacy and Regulatory Compliance

Data privacy is becoming a critical priority for organisations as legal requirements and regulatory expectations intensify. We support clients in assessing, maturing, transforming, and operationalising privacy and data frameworks. This includes privacy health checks, privacy impact assessments, maturity and compliance reviews, policy review, and the development of governance structures and operating models to ensure responsible collection, handling, and protection of personal information.

Technology Advisory

We provide boards and executives with independent advice over cyber and technology programs and major transformation initiatives. We anchor on planning and governing for the successful execution of technology initiatives, and our focus includes identifying risks introduced through complex delivery models, third-party service providers, and outsourcing arrangements – helping ensure critical investments deliver the intended outcomes.

Articles and Thought Leadership

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ASIC’s FIIG Enforcement Action Through a Privacy and Cyber Governance Lens

Federal Court imposes first civil penalties for cyber security failures under AFSL obligations, confirming cyber and data governance sit squarely within s 912A licensing duties.

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Wotton Kearney launches advisory practice to support clients across the full risk lifecycle

Wotton Kearney launches WK Advisory, expanding beyond legal services to deliver end-to-end cyber, data and technology risk guidance across the full risk lifecycle.

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Stay ahead of Cyber, Data, and Technology Risks

We’ll keep you updated with quarterly bulletins and key cyber alerts

24/7 Cyber Hotline

We operate a cyber incident response hotline that is monitored 24/7 by our dedicated team of breach response lawyers. By using a lawyer as an incident manager, we can immediately protect key reports and other sensitive communications with your customer and other vendors under legal professional privilege.

Australia

1800 316 706 cyber@wottonkearney.com

Singapore

+65 6967 6478 SGcyber@wottonkearney.com

New Zealand

0800 9525 2467 NZclaims@wottonkearney.com

Thailand

+66 2460 7314 THcyber@wottonkearney.com

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