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A free cyber academy plus curated threat intel for Australia & New Zealand teams. The academy modules inside Aegis are personalised to your CRS and Cyber Security maturity score — these are the universal must-haves.

Free cyber academy

Popular courses, by level

Bite-sized, universally useful. Inside Aegis, Maverick curates a personalised pathway from your CRS, Human Risk and maturity scores.

Foundational

6 courses

Foundational

Phishing & Social Engineering

Spot lures, BEC, MFA fatigue and QR-code phishing aimed at AU/NZ teams.

12 min Start

Foundational

Passwords, MFA & Passkeys

Why MFA matters, where it fails, and how passkeys close the gap.

10 min Start

Foundational

Data Handling & Privacy 101

Privacy Act 1988 (AU) & Privacy Act 2020 (NZ) basics for everyday work.

15 min Start

Foundational

Safe Email & Collaboration

Attachments, links, shared drives, Teams/Slack hygiene.

8 min Start

Foundational

Incident Reporting

What to report, to whom, and how fast — OAIC NDB & NZ NCSC pathways.

9 min Start

Foundational

Working From Anywhere

Home Wi-Fi, public networks, BYOD and travel security essentials.

11 min Start

Practitioner

4 courses

Practitioner

Essential Eight in Practice

Implement, measure and uplift ACSC Essential Eight across Maturity Levels 1–3.

35 min Start

Practitioner

Zero Trust Foundations (NIST 800-207)

Identity, device, network and workload trust signals — for AU/NZ enterprises.

40 min Start

Practitioner

Threat-Led Defence with MITRE ATT&CK

Map adversary TTPs to your controls and detections.

45 min Start

Practitioner

Cloud Security Essentials (Azure / AWS / GCP)

Shared responsibility, IAM, posture management and logging baselines.

50 min Start

Leadership

3 courses

Leadership

Cyber Risk Quantification (FAIR)

Talk about risk in dollars — annualised loss exposure for the board.

30 min Start

Leadership

Regulator-Ready Reporting (AU & NZ)

SOCI Act, APRA CPS 234, OAIC NDB, NZ Privacy Act 2020 — what execs must know.

25 min Start

Leadership

AI & Cyber: Risk and Resilience

Shadow AI, prompt injection, model theft, and governance for AU/NZ orgs.

28 min Start

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Threat intel

Curated feed from CISA, ACSC, NIST, ENISA, Verizon DBIR, IBM X-Force, Mandiant, MITRE, SANS, NCSC and others. Maverick summarises and tells you why it matters.

IBM2025-07-01

IBM Cost of a Data Breach Report 2025

Average breach USD 4.44M; 241 days mean time to contain; AI defence saves ~USD 1.9M.

Maverick: Anchors your ROI model. Quantifies the cost of doing nothing.

NIST CSF

Verizon2025-05-12

Verizon DBIR 2025

~60% of breaches involve a human element; ~8% of employees cause 80% of incidents.

Maverick: The 'soft underbelly' thesis. Why Aegis scores the people, not just controls.

NIST CSF

ACSC2025-02-01

ACSC Essential Eight Maturity Model

ML 0–3 across eight mitigation strategies — the ANZ hygiene spine.

Maverick: Your Maturity score derives directly from these levels.

Essential Eight

NIST2024-02-26

NIST CSF 2.0

Adds 'Govern' as the sixth function — board accountability at the centre.

Maverick: Drives the wheel on your dashboard.

NIST CSF

MITRE2024-10-15

MITRE ATT&CK v15

Standard threat technique taxonomy used by Aegis risk register.

Maverick: Every risk and Maverick forecast maps to a MITRE technique.

MITRE

CISA2025-11-05

CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog

Vulnerabilities under active exploitation worldwide.

Maverick: Drives patch-prioritisation in Remediation.

CIS

OAIC2025-06-20

Privacy Act amendments — mandatory data breach reform (AU)

Tighter notification windows and statutory tort for serious invasions of privacy.

Maverick: Drives ANZ regulatory weighting in Governance scoring.

ISO 27001

GCSB / NCSC NZ2025-03-10

NZ Information Security Manual (NZISM) v3.7

Baseline controls expected of NZ government and regulated industries.

Maverick: NZ region mapping in Aegis Governance dimension.

ISO 27001