A NEW ERA IN DIGITAL RISK MANAGEMENT
Helping organisations to better understand and manage digital risks such as cyber, privacy and AI
We help you manage your cyber, privacy and AI risks
Novera is an experienced professional services firm that specialises in helping organisations understand and mitigate their digital risks.
Our team of experienced information technology, cybersecurity, privacy, AI and legal professionals are dedicated to helping you achieve digital risk resilience while making the most of your technology investments.
- We are client first in everything that we do. We understand that our success hinges on our clients success.
- We provide pragmatic, actionable and valuable advice to our clients, helping them understand digital risks and how to best address those.
- We use industry leading methodologies and standards to ensure that our advice is consistent with the best way to understand and manage your risks.
Digital Risk Management
Novera is an experienced and professional digital risk management firm that specialises in assessing and managing digital risks. Our team of experienced IT, cyber, privacy, AI and legal consultants are dedicated to helping you protect what is most valuable to you.
Cybersecurity
Comprehensive cybersecurity expertise to help you understand, manage and mitigate your cyber risk.
Our team can assist with services such as:
- Cybersecurity strategy development including policy design, implementation and compliance support.
- Virtual CISO support services
- Risk, gap, maturity and compliance assessments using standards such as the NIST Cybersecurity Framework, the ASD Essential Eight, SMB1001, SOCI, IRAP and APRA CPS-234
- Cyber resilience uplift
- Third party cybersecurity assessments and policy development / implementation.
- ISO27001 readiness assessments and advisory services.
- Expert reports and expert evidence for legal matters
Privacy
We help your business understand and manage privacy related risks, wherever in the world you may be operating.
Our services include:
- Privacy Impact Assessments
- Privacy policy and strategy development
- Advisory services to assist in achieving compliance to privacy regulations and regimes globally.
- Virtual Data Privacy Officer (DPO)
Artificial Intelligence (AI)
With the ever-increasing use of AI within organisations, we help decision makers understand what those risks look like and how to best manage them.
Our services include:
- AI risk assessments for organisations using or considering the use of AI technologies.
- AI strategy and roadmap development for organisations planning to deploy large scale AI systems.
- ISO42001 AI management systems (AIMS) compliance assessment and uplift
- Regulatory compliance for organisations planning to use AI systems.
- Cybersecurity and privacy advisory for AI systems
Expert Evidence
Novera's highly skilled and accredited professionals have unrivaled depth of experience in assisting with independent expert evidence support for legal matters.
- Our team have acted as independent experts for commercial, legal, government and regulatory clients and our clients have come to rely on our deep expertise to identify and analyse the pertinent facts of a matter in dispute and provide an independent analysis and opinion that will withstand legal challenge and scrutiny.
- We are experienced in presenting our findings in an independent, transparent and clear manner in our written reports. Additionally, we have extensive experience in providing expert witness testimony at trial, before mediation and arbitration and in alternative dispute resolution proceedings.
- Our team have provided consulting support to law firms and regulators that are considering their legal options with respect to a matter in dispute. This includes consulting services for interlocutory proceedings such as discovery requests as well as assistance in determining the probability of success in pursuing a matter in dispute.
Our Team
Our team is passionate about helping clients achieve their financial goals and have the expertise to provide comprehensive solutions.
Randy Marsh
Managing Partner
Jake Schitt
Senior Partner
Frequently Asked Questions
Providing answers to frequently asked questions related to digital risk management including cyber risk, privacy, AI and digital infrastructure.
Novera offers a wide variety of cybersecurity related advisory services including cybersecurity maturity and compliance assessments, cybersecurity risk assessments, and consulting services to assist organisations achieve accreditation to standards such as ISO27001. Additionally, we assist organisations in incident preparedness including board and senior management training and scenario exercises, breach simulation and third party risk management.
Novera advises on how clients can protect personal and sensitive data while ensuring compliance with global regulations. Novera assists in data privacy audits, policy development, and impact assessments to identify risks and safeguard information. Our experienced professionals assist in aligning your organisation with privacy frameworks like GDPR, CCPA, and the Australian Privacy Act.
Novera's AI risk consultancy experts provide guidance to help organisations manage the unique risks posed by artificial intelligence. We offer AI risk assessments, ethical framework development, and compliance support to ensure responsible AI implementation. Our team evaluates AI models for biases, privacy concerns, and regulatory compliance, aligning with standards such as the GDPR, the EU AI Act, and Australia’s AI Ethics Principles. We assist clients to develop governance frameworks, model transparency, and monitoring to address potential risks throughout the AI lifecycle.
Novera provides independent expert evidence reports to support legal cases, regulatory inquiries, and compliance audits. We specialize in delivering thorough, unbiased assessments across cybersecurity, privacy and AI. Our experts analyze complex technical data, conduct detailed investigations, and compile findings into clear, court-ready reports. Each report is crafted to withstand legal scrutiny, with conclusions grounded in rigorous analysis and adherence to industry standards. With experience working with regulators and law firms across the region, Novera can assist.