Large 4 accounting and consulting agency Ernst & Younger has added Melbourne-based privileged entry administration specialist J Group Consulting, which was established simply two years in the past.
A CyberArk regional award-winner, J Group Consulting is without doubt one of the nation’s main specialists within the ‘identification and entry administration’ (IAM) area, which goals to cut back cyber threats for important on-line infrastructure.
The agency was established in 2022 by former Nationwide Australia Financial institution supervisor Joel Harris, who now joins Ernst & Younger’s Identification observe as companion, together with a group of 20 workers between Melbourne and Sydney.
“Becoming a member of EY represents an evolution of what we’ve constructed,” Harris stated. “It’s a chance to scale our affect, deepen our capabilities, and ship much more worth to our shoppers whereas sustaining the human contact that has all the time been on the core of what we do. I’m significantly excited concerning the unbelievable alternatives it will carry to our group as we contribute to EY’s world imaginative and prescient.”
With a background in cyber forensics, Harris spent the most effective a part of a decade at NAB earlier than launching J Group, which only one 12 months later was named CyberArk’s Asia Pacific development companion of the 12 months. The corporate supplies shoppers throughout the area with technique, implementation, optimisation and engineering companies within the area of interest however fast-growing IAM phase.
With the introduction of latest laws in Australia round important infrastructure, EY stated the addition would bolster the agency’s Identification observe (EYI, to not be confused with EY.ai) in each phrases of scaling its transformation supply companies and bringing in expertise, noting the revolutionary surroundings J Group had established targeted on attracting extremely skilled IAM and PAM practitioners.
“Purchasers proceed to extend funding in identification and privileged entry administration to guard important IT and operational expertise programs,’ said EY’s world cyber consulting chief Richard Watson. “This acquisition bolsters the energy of the EY cybersecurity observe with distinctive abilities in a extremely aggressive area and places EY’s IAM capabilities on the entrance of the Oceania market.”
