About Us
Cipher Advisory is a specialist governance advisory firm, founded on the belief that the risks facing organisations today, particularly across AI, cybersecurity, privacy and ESG, demand a new kind of expertise.
Our goal is to be the trusted partner that boards and leadership teams turn to when the governance challenges are complex, the stakes are high, and getting it right matters.
Our Story
We are one of the first firms in Australia to specialise exclusively in governance across these four critical and interconnected domains. While many advisory firms treat AI, cyber, privacy and ESG as peripheral services bolted onto a broader offering, they are our entire focus, and that specialisation makes a meaningful difference to the quality and relevance of the advice we provide.
We work with listed corporations, private organisations, government entities and not-for-profits. What our clients have in common is that they are navigating governance territory that is unfamiliar, fast-moving and consequential - and they need advisors who are genuinely ahead of the curve.
Our approach is always tailored. We don't arrive with a predetermined framework or a standard methodology. We listen carefully, engage deeply with your organisation's specific context, and develop governance solutions that are practical, defensible and built to last.
We don't just advise. We help you lead.
Why Cipher Advisory?
The governance landscape is changing faster than most organisations can keep up with.
Regulatory obligations around AI are emerging. Cybersecurity has moved from an IT responsibility to a board one. Privacy law is expanding in scope and consequence. ESG accountability is shifting from voluntary to mandatory. The organisations that get ahead of these changes, rather than react to them, will be better governed, more resilient, and better positioned for success in the long term.
Cipher Advisory exists to help organisations get there.
How We Work
Cipher Advisory is engaged at the board and executive level, by directors, chairs, CEOs, general counsel and company secretaries who need specialist expertise they can trust, delivered in a way that drives real organisational change.
We don't arrive with a generic framework and retrofit it to your organisation. Every engagement begins with genuine curiosity, listening carefully to understand your organisation's specific risk profile, obligations, culture and appetite before we offer a single recommendation.
From there, we conduct rigorous analysis, undertake targeted reviews, test our thinking with your leadership, and develop practical, evidence-based deliverables, whether that's a governance framework, a board report, a policy suite, a training programme, or a prioritised roadmap for action.
Everything we produce is designed to be activated, not filed away. And because we work at the leading edge of governance in these four areas, our advice is always calibrated to where regulation and best practice are heading - not just where they are today.
We stay connected.
Governance isn't a one-off exercise. The regulatory environment shifts, new risks emerge, and organisations evolve. We stay in contact with the clients we work with, not to generate more work, but because we're genuinely invested in the outcomes we help create. Many of our engagements grow into longer-term advisory relationships, and we think that's how good governance advice should work.
Strategic Partnerships & Recognition
We are committed to advancing the standard of governance practice across Australia. We actively contribute to the broader governance community through thought leadership, published insights, industry forums and engagement with peak bodies across the legal, risk, technology and ESG sectors.
We believe that raising the collective understanding of these governance challenges, across boards, leadership teams and the advisory profession, is as important as the individual work we do with clients.