Melbourne, Australia – 9 January 2026: Logicalis Australia, a leading global technology services provider, has announced the launch of Technology Assurance Services (TAS), a consulting-led capability designed to help large, regulated organisations in Australia translate rising regulatory and operational resilience requirements into governed, measurable technology outcomes. 

Logicalis TAS team has been assembled to address a growing gap facing CIOs, CISOs, and risk leaders. Regulatory obligations increasingly demand demonstrable resilience across critical systems and third-party providers; however, accountability often breaks down between policy, contracts, and day-to-day technology operations. 

TAS provides a structured assurance layer that aligns controls, supplier obligations, service design, and delivery across enterprise technology environments, supporting organisations operating in highly regulated sectors, such as banking and financial services, insurance, manufacturing, law, government, and critical infrastructure. 

Regulators globally are tightening expectations around operational resilience and third-party risk management. The Australian Prudential Regulation Authority (APRA)’s cross-industry prudential standards (CPS) 230 Operational Risk Management standard introduces formal requirements to maintain critical operations through disruption and manage risks arising from service providers, with compliance deadlines commencing from 1 July 2026.1 Similar obligations are emerging internationally through frameworks such as the European Union’s Network and Information Systems 2 (NIS2) directive and the Digital Operational Resilience Act (DORA). 

These requirements expose a practical challenge for many organisations operating in Australia and globally, requiring assurance responsibilities that span technology, procurement, legal, risk, and operations even when delivery remains fragmented across internal teams and external providers. 

Logicalis’s TAS is designed to bridge this divide. The team delivers assessment-led engagements that clarify ambiguous or program-scale requirements, then connects those findings directly into delivery and managed services. TAS works across Logicalis’s core technology domains, including end-user computing, cloud and infrastructure, connectivity, and identity and collaboration, ensuring resilience objectives are embedded into how services are designed, contracted, operated, and measured. 

Luke Gardiner, principal, Technology Assurance Services, Logicalis, said, “TAS exists to close the last mile between policy and production. Regulated organisations don’t need another slide deck; they need defensible evidence that their critical operations, suppliers, and contracts can withstand disruption. By building technology assurance capability inside a leading systems integrator, we pair governance and controls with the engineering, project management office, and managed services that make resilience real.
“Regulated organisations don’t need another framework or report that sits on a shelf. They need evidence that critical systems, suppliers, and contracts can withstand disruption, and a clear path to uplift where gaps exist. TAS can help Australian organisations move from compliance activity to operational confidence by pairing assurance expertise with delivery capability.”
“Across every regulated sector, we’re seeing the same issue, and that is that organisations understand what regulators expect; however, translating those expectations into practical, auditable technology outcomes is where things often break down. TAS will provide the connection between contracts and controls that directly links to how technology is delivered and operated within the organisation.”  

A core component of Logicalis, technical services director, Peter Cardassis strategic roadmap is the Technology Operations and Readiness Assessment (TORA), a structured methodology developed to accelerate discovery against unified control standards relevant to Australian regulated industries, including CPS 230, Security of Critical Infrastructure Act 2018 (SOCI) obligations, and privacy requirements. TORA produces defensible gap analyses and costed uplift roadmaps that organisations can use to prioritise investment and demonstrate progress to boards and regulators. 

TAS embeds assurance capability inside a systems integrator, connecting governance with the engineering, program management, and managed services required to make resilience measurable and sustainable. 

Peter said: “The launch of TAS is a strategic evolution of our Transformation Services, Managed Services, and Private Cloud portfolios. We recognised that in a CPS 230 world, ‘standard’ managed services aren’t enough; clients need a governance layer that is baked into the technology itself. My objective in forming this capability was to ensure that every dollar our clients invest in cloud and infrastructure is inherently ‘regulatory-ready’ from day one.” 

Turning Regulatory Pressure Into Operational Outcomes for Industries

TAS supports compliance with CPS 230 for banking and financial services organisations by aligning critical systems, service providers, and contracts to define resilience tolerances. This will help executives demonstrate continuity planning, supplier oversight, and evidence to boards and regulators. 

TAS can help to assess operational risk concentration, uplift governance frameworks, and embed measurable controls across outsourced services without slowing delivery in sectors where third-party technology and cloud dependencies only continue to grow, such as insurance and legal and professional services firms. 

Manufacturing, utilities, and infrastructure organisations can also benefit from TAS by gaining clearer visibility into the resilience of operational technology environments and supplier ecosystems, particularly in areas where downtime, cyber incidents, or vendor failure could have material, safety, financial, or reputational implications. 

Designed for Executive Accountability

TAS engagements are structured to support board-level oversight and executive accountability to help CIOs, CISOs, CROs, and CFOs align regulatory requirements with real-world delivery. This includes translating obligations into technology and supplier requirements, aligning contracts and service level agreements (SLAs) to the resilience objectives of the organisation, as well as establishing reporting mechanisms that stand up to regulatory scrutiny. 

The launch of TAS reflects growing demand from Australian organisations for assurance models that move beyond assessment and into sustained, governed execution.  

About Logicalis

We are Architects of Change™. We help organisations succeed in a digital-first world. 

At Logicalis, we harness our collective technology expertise to help our clients build a blueprint for success, so they can deliver sustainable outcomes that matter. Our lifecycle services across cloud, connectivity, collaboration, and security are designed to help optimise operations, reduce risk, and empower employees. 

As a global technology service provider, we deliver next-generation digital managed services, to provide our clients with real-time visibility and actionable insights across the performance of their digital ecosystem including availability, user experience, security, economic performance, and sustainability. 

Our 7000+ ‘Architects of Change’ are based in 30 territories around the globe, helping our 10,000+ clients across a range of industry sectors, create sustainable outcomes through technology. 

Logicalis has annualised revenues of $1.7 billion, from operations in Europe, North America, Latin America, Asia Pacific, and Africa. For more information visit www.logicalis.com