Business & Privacy Impact Assessment

Cyber Solution (AU) will deliver two core advisory services and conduct workshop services for Australian organisations: Business Impact Analysis (BIA) and Privacy Impact Assessment (PIA). Both services are part of our offerings business resilience includes Business and Privacy Impact Assessment is a featured service.

Business Impact Analysis (BIA)

A PIA is a structured assessment of how a project or system collects, uses, stores, shares and secures personal information, and whether that handling complies with the Privacy Act 1988 (Cth) and the Australian Privacy Principles (APPs). We follow the national regulator’s methodology.

Why it matters in Australia?

APRA’s CPS 230 Operational Risk Management explicitly requires regulated entities to maintain critical operations within tolerance levels and have credible BCPs — it commences on 1 July 2025. Our BIA directly supports those obligations.
The ACSC Essential Eight maturity approach benefits from a BIA baseline to prioritise mitigations that protect the most critical operations.

Who it’s for

Software or SaaS, technology, retail industry, financial services, government agencies — any organisation that relies on always-on processes and third-party providers and must evidence resilience to boards, customers, regulators, or insurers. Our published services already cover Business Resilience and GRC, which complement this work.

What are the deliverables?

Critical process inventory with impact categories (financial, operational, legal/regulatory, safety, reputational) and tolerance metrics: Maximum Tolerable Downtime (MTD), Recovery Time Objective (RTO) and Recovery Point Objective (RPO).
Dependency maps across people, tech, facilities, data, vendors, single points of failure (SPOF) and interdependencies.
Scenario analysis and quantified outage impacts, board-ready heat maps with prioritised treatments.
Continuity & recovery strategies (workarounds, failover, data restore patterns) aligned to ISO 27001.
Test and exercise plan table-tops to technical Disaster Recovery (DR) tests, improvement backlog, and metrics your execs can track.
Regulatory mapping pack for APRA CPS 230/CPS 234, where relevant.

How we work:

1. Rapid discovery (interviews, process & asset triage).
2. Data-driven criticality scoring.
3. Dependency and risk modelling.
4. Treatment selection and alignment to standards.
5. finalisation and executive sign-off with an exercise roadmap.

We anchor the approach in our broader Governance, Risk or Compliance capability to ensure it embeds, not just documents.

Privacy Impact Assessment (PIA)

A BIA pinpoints which business processes you can’t afford to lose, how long you can live without them, and what it takes to keep them running or get them back quickly. We align our method with ISO/IEC 27001:2022, focusing on ICT readiness for business continuity, ensuring your business continuity plans (BCP) are audit-ready and resilient.

Why it matters in Australia?

The OAIC (Office of the Australian Information Commissioner) requires Australian Government agencies to conduct a PIA for high-privacy-risk projects under the Australian Government Agencies Privacy Code — and to publish a PIA register. We align with that Code and its expectations.
The Notifiable Data Breaches (NDB) scheme means eligible breaches must be assessed and, if required, notified to affected individuals and the OAIC. A robust PIA reduces the likelihood and impact of such events.

Who it’s for

Any entity subject to the APPs (most Australian businesses with ≥$3m turnover, and many smaller regulated entities), plus agencies and regulated sectors (financial services, health, telecoms, education, retail, and vendors processing personal data for Australian customers). Our Privacy Advisory service is a published part of our portfolio.

What are the deliverables?

Project and data inventory with data-flow diagrams, collection → processing → storage → sharing → retention/destruction.
APPs compliance map, including cross-border disclosure analysis and security expectations, and a remediation plan for gaps.
Risk assessment and mitigations, including de-identification or re-identification risks, vendor or processor controls, and incident response or NDB alignment.
Privacy by design recommendations, consent and notice improvements, role-based access, retention schedules, and destruction methods.
AI/GenAI privacy add-on: model inputs and outputs review, prompt or content logging controls, training data considerations, and cloud or overseas processing checks that tie back to broader AI guidance.

How we work:

We follow the PIA lifecycle: screening → scoping → stakeholder consultation → privacy analysis → risk rating → recommendations → publish/record. For agencies, we structure outputs so they are “register-ready” and evidence compliance with the Code.