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Cyber Action Year 2026: What ASD’s Five Actions Actually Mean in an Accounting Firm

ASD has named five critical actions for Australian organisations this year. Most of the guidance behind them is written for a very different kind of organisation to an accounting, bookkeeping or financial planning practice. This is the translation — what each action means in a firm, which ones can wait, and who actually ends up doing the work. Read more

Shadow AI: What Your Team Is Using, and How to Bring It Into the Firm Properly

Shadow AI is staff using their own personal AI accounts, like ChatGPT, Claude or Gemini, to do firm work. It usually starts with good intentions: someone finds a tool that saves them hours and puts it straight to work. The gap is that the account is in their name rather than the firm's, so anything they enter sits outside your systems and leaves with them if they move on. October is Cyber Security Action Month in Australia, which makes it a good time to find out what your team is using and bring those tools inside the firm's rules. Read more

What Cyber Insurance Questionnaires Actually Ask Accounting Firms

Cyber insurance renewal is one of the few moments a firm is formally asked to describe its own security position. It arrives as a form. The questions look straightforward, the answers feel obvious, and the whole thing gets completed between other work. The questions are more specific than they look — and it is easy to reach the day before the form is due still trying to confirm what your firm actually has in place. Read more

Why Password Managers Aren’t Enough for Australian Accounting Firms — And What the Difference Actually Costs You

Tools like 1Password, LastPass, and Dashlane were built to solve a credential problem. Australian accounting firms in 2026 have a compliance problem — and the two are not the same thing. The TPB Code, Privacy Act, and ATO now require specific security controls from every registered tax agent. This is what those controls look like, why standard password management doesn’t deliver them, and what a platform built specifically for your profession does instead. Read more

Why Accounting Firms Need One-Click Offboarding

When a staff member leaves, do you know exactly which apps and portals they can still access? This article covers why manual offboarding fails under regulatory scrutiny — and what Australian accounting firms need to have in place. Read more

AML/CTF Tranche 2: The Access Control Gap Australian Accounting Firms Need to Close Before 1 July 2026

From 1 July 2026, accounting firms in scope for AML/CTF Tranche 2 need more than a compliance program — they need demonstrable access controls. Here's what good looks like, and what AUSTRAC will be looking for. Read more

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