A focused course, tailored for you
Regulated CTIR for Diversified Financial Groups
Build incident classification and notification workflows that satisfy APRA CPS 234, SOCI, and board evidence requirements.
The 72-hour notification window under CPS 234 does not wait for the classification meeting to finish. When first responders disagree on severity at 11pm and every reclassification reopens the evidence chain, the regulatory clock is already running.
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Includes a hand-built implementation playbook delivered alongside course access, generated for your specific situation.
Why this course
A cyber threat and incident response function in a regulated financial group operates under a constraint that pure-play technology firms do not face: every decision made in the first hours of an incident has regulatory consequences that cannot be undone. The 72-hour notification window under CPS 234 is absolute. Miss it, and the question is not whether you had the right intentions, it is whether you had the right process. For a diversified financial group, that process has to work across entity types, banking, funds management, commodities, capital markets, where the same incident has different regulatory implications depending on which entity is affected. Most CTIR functions were built for speed, not for the evidentiary architecture that APRA examiners look for. The gap is not technical skill. It is the workflow, the classification decision logic, and the documentation standards that transform a well-run incident response into a defensible regulatory record.
The 12 modules
Module 1. The Incident Classification Decision Tree
The classification tool your on-call team can use at 2am without calling the compliance officer. This module builds the branching logic from first alert to regulatory determination, calibrated to APRA CPS 234 materiality thresholds and SOCI critical infrastructure trigger criteria. Produces one artefact: a tested classification decision tree with worked examples for financial services incident types including account compromise, ransomware, and API abuse.
Module 2. Threat Intelligence Triage for a Diversified Financial Group
How to ingest and operationalize threat intelligence for a group where the same threat actor TTP has different implications depending on which entity type is affected. This module builds the entity-scope mapping your analysts need before an incident starts: which threat clusters are relevant to the banking entity, which to the asset manager, which to the commodities trading book, and how to brief on-call responders accordingly.
Module 3. The 72-Hour APRA Notification Workflow
Step-by-step build of the notification workflow that CPS 234 paragraph 36 requires for material cyber incidents. From first classification to formal notification document, this module covers the internal escalation gates your CRO and Group CISO must clear, the parallel SOCI notification track for critical infrastructure-designated entities, and the evidence checkpoints that prevent a notification being returned as incomplete. Template notification document included.
Module 4. Evidence Chain Architecture for Regulated Incident Response
The specific log sources, timestamp standards, and documentation requirements that create a defensible evidence chain for APRA review and potential legal proceedings. This module specifies what your SIEM and case management system must produce at each stage of an incident, provides a gap-assessment checklist against your current logging architecture, and identifies the five most common evidence-chain deficiencies that APRA examiners find on review.
Module 5. Incident Playbooks That Generate Audit Artefacts
Most IR playbooks are built for speed, not auditability. This module rebuilds five high-frequency financial services incident types, account compromise, ransomware, insider exfiltration, API abuse, and third-party breach, as workflows that produce audit-ready artefacts at each step. Each rebuilt playbook runs at tier-2 analyst level and still generates the evidence chain a tier-3 examiner expects. Templates for all five included.
Module 6. Third-Party and Supply Chain Incident Scoping
When a supplier notifies you of a breach affecting your customer data, multiple teams inside a large financial group will simultaneously claim and disclaim ownership of the notification obligation. This module builds the contractual trigger map that clarifies which vendor agreements require notification to you, the internal escalation path when a supplier incident affects your data, and the APRA and SOCI notification workflow for incidents originating outside your perimeter.
Module 7. Board and Executive Reporting During an Active Incident
The board update circulated during an active incident is not the same document as the post-incident report filed 30 days later. This module produces both: a real-time executive summary template that gives the board situational awareness without contaminating the evidence chain, and the post-incident report structure that APRA expects. Includes the three questions every independent director asks that your CTIR lead needs to answer cold.
Module 8. Cross-Entity Incident Coordination for a Diversified Group
An incident that starts in the banking entity may implicate the asset management entity. Different regulatory timelines, different notification obligations, potentially different legal teams. This module builds the cross-entity coordination protocol: when to treat an incident as group-wide versus entity-specific, how to manage parallel notification tracks with different 72-hour windows, and the role of the Group CISO in resolving conflicts between entity-level and group-level obligations.
Module 9. Threat Hunting Cadence for Regulatory Context
Proactive threat hunting in a regulated financial environment means hunting against known threat actor TTPs and against your own regulatory exposure surface. This module builds a fortnightly threat hunt cadence tied to the ACSC financial services advisory cycle, with a standardised hunt report that doubles as APRA-ready evidence of proactive security posture. Covers the five TTP clusters most relevant to diversified financial group infrastructure, mapped to MITRE ATT&CK.
Module 10. Post-Incident Review That Closes the Loop with Compliance
The post-incident review that produces a 30-page document nobody reads versus the PIR that actually changes your notification workflow. This module builds a structured PIR template that maps each finding to a specific CPS 234 paragraph or SOCI obligation, produces a closure memo your CRO can sign off on, and feeds back into the classification decision tree from Module 1. Three-hour facilitation guide included.
Module 11. CTIR Metrics for CPS 234 Board Attestation
Group CISO attestation to the board under CPS 234 paragraph 29 requires evidence that your information security capability is adequate. This module builds the CTIR metrics your CISO needs to support that attestation: mean time to classify, notification lead time, playbook coverage rate, evidence chain completeness score. Each metric includes a collection method, a reporting cadence, and the threshold that indicates a capability gap requiring remediation.
Module 12. CTIR Maturity Roadmap for a Regulated Financial Group
The gap assessment between your current incident response capability and what CPS 234, SOCI, and board expectations require. This module produces a 90-day and 12-month roadmap structured around the regulatory calendar: the APRA triennial review cycle, the board attestation cycle, and the SOCI annual review, with resourcing estimates calibrated to the size and complexity of a diversified financial group that your CFO can actually approve.
How this addresses your situation
Specific modules that map to what you said you are dealing with.
Your on-call responders classify an incident at 11pm and you discover the next morning that the determination needs to be reopened because severity criteria were applied inconsistently. Modules 1 through 3 address the classification workflow, the decision logic, and the notification process that prevents this loop.
APRA asks for your evidence chain six weeks after an incident and you are assembling it from memory, SIEM exports, and chat logs under time pressure. Modules 4 and 5 address the evidence architecture and the playbook rebuild that makes this a documentation exercise rather than a reconstruction effort.
A third-party supplier notifies you of a breach affecting your customer data and four internal teams are simultaneously claiming and disclaiming ownership of the regulatory notification obligation. Modules 6 through 8 address third-party scoping, cross-entity coordination, and board reporting during an active incident.
The board attestation is due and your Group CISO needs metrics that demonstrate the CTIR function is adequately resourced, performing against its classification SLA, and proactively addressing the threat landscape your regulators care about. Modules 9 through 12 address threat hunting, post-incident review, board-level metrics, and the maturity roadmap.
Who it is for
Senior cyber threat and incident response professionals at APRA-regulated financial institutions, specifically those in diversified financial groups where a single incident may implicate multiple legal entities with different regulatory notification obligations. CTIR leads, threat intelligence managers, and security operations managers who are accountable for the group's CPS 234 attestation posture and who carry personal responsibility when the 72-hour notification clock is running.
Who this is NOT for. General IT security professionals without regulatory notification obligations. Pure red team or penetration testing specialists. Security architects without operational incident response accountability. Professionals at unregulated entities where APRA and SOCI obligations do not apply.
How it arrives
Text-based course in the Art of Service learning environment, plus downloadable templates and worked examples for every module, plus the hand-built implementation playbook delivered alongside course access.
Time investment. 12 modules, designed to be worked through one per week or as an intensive over two to three weeks. Each module produces one or two implementation-ready artefacts. The course is complete when you have rebuilt your CTIR capability, not when you have read all the content.
FAQ
Is this relevant if our group includes SOCI-designated critical infrastructure entities?
Particularly relevant. The classification decision tree in Module 1 branches on SOCI critical infrastructure designation, so covered entities get a separate notification track built into the same workflow as your CPS 234 process. Modules 3, 6, and 8 address SOCI specifically in the context of notification workflows, third-party incidents, and cross-entity coordination.
Does the course address incidents that affect multiple legal entities simultaneously?
Module 8 is built specifically for this. It covers cross-entity coordination when the same incident implicates entities with different regulatory timelines, the role of the Group CISO in resolving conflicts between entity-level and group-level notification obligations, and how to manage parallel CPS 234 notification tracks when the 72-hour windows start at different times.
How long does it take to implement the classification decision tree from Module 1?
The module produces a draft decision tree in two to three hours of focused work. It is designed to be tested in a tabletop exercise before it goes to the on-call rotation, so expect four to six hours from module completion to an endorsed, tested artefact your first responders can use without escalating.
