INDUSTRIES / Higher Education
INDUSTRIES, HIGHER EDUCATION
Research, records, federated identity.
Universities, research institutes, training organisations and TEQSA-regulated providers. We work alongside institutional IT, delivering project capability, security uplifts, M365 / Workspace administration, and the kind of compliance documentation review bodies actually want to see.
WHAT WE TYPICALLY DELIVER
The higher-ed baseline
RESEARCH
Research data governance
Sensitivity classification, controlled-access folders, ethics-aligned retention, FAIR data principles applied to SharePoint and Drive.
IDENTITY
Federated identity
Entra ID or Cloud Identity integration with AAF, eduGAIN, SAML federation to institutional IdPs. Guest access governed properly.
STUDENT DATA
Student records protections
Privacy Act + state-level student record protections (e.g. Vic Information Privacy Act). DLP rules tuned for student PII.
REGULATION
TEQSA-aligned documentation
Information management policies, BCP plans, incident response runbooks, documented to a standard your TEQSA reviewer expects.
COLLABORATION
Teams & M365 / Workspace
Tenant configured for academic collaboration, external researchers, cross-institutional projects, conference workflows.
PROJECT CAPACITY
Augment institutional IT
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WHAT WE SOLVE FOR HIGHER EDUCATION
IT that respects academic autonomy and institutional control.
Federated identity that respects the difference between staff, student and research roles, research data governance with proper classification, AARNet-friendly architectures, and faculty-bound application portfolios that central IT does not have to micromanage. We work with research offices, IT directors and individual faculty to deliver systems that support thousands of independent projects without forcing every one through a central choke point.
Universities are not enterprises. The IT must enable the work the institution exists to do, not constrain it. We design so academic autonomy and institutional control sit alongside each other rather than fighting, with sensible defaults that handle 90 percent of the cases without exception requests.
Higher ed or research institute? Talk through a defined project.
We work best when we're brought in for a specific outcome, Essential 8 uplift, M365 migration, research-data SharePoint redesign, federated identity integration. Tell us the project, we'll scope it.