Key Facts:
- CyberHeed, an Australian AI-powered governance, risk, and compliance (GRC) platform, has launched Live Integrations, a capability that reads evidence directly from an organisation’s existing systems and feeds it into its compliance platform for continuous assessment.
- The feature builds on SmartPrep, CyberHeed’s compliance brain introduced in April 2026, extending it from documented policy into the live environment by continuously assessing configuration and state across identity, endpoint, and development tooling.
- Unlike traditional compliance tools optimised for speed to certification, Live Integrations evaluates live signals against an organisation’s specific controls and context, surfacing exposures with remediation guidance whenever configuration diverges from what a control expects.
- At launch, Live Integrations connects with GitHub, Microsoft Defender for Endpoint, Microsoft Entra ID, and Microsoft Intune, with further connectors planned, and natively supports frameworks including the ACSC Essential Eight and ISO/IEC 27001.
- CyberHeed is Australian-built and Australian-hosted, was a finalist in both the 2025 Australian AI Awards and the 2026 Australian Cyber Awards, and was founded by Raif Al Bedewi, a former cybersecurity leader at a major financial regulator in Dubai and current PhD candidate at the University of Melbourne.
MELBOURNE, VICTORIA, AUSTRALIA – August 21, 2026 – CyberHeed, an Australian AI-powered governance, risk, and compliance (GRC) platform, today launched Live Integrations, a capability that reads evidence directly from the systems an organisation already runs and feeds it into the platform’s compliance brain. The release extends CyberHeed’s core idea, that compliance should be assessed continuously and in context, from documented policy into the live environment.
The launch builds on SmartPrep, the compliance brain CyberHeed introduced in April 2026, which captures how an organisation actually operates and retains that knowledge as it evolves. Where the brain established what an organisation is and how it works, Live Integrations gives it a pulse: a continuous read of configuration and state from identity, endpoint, and development tooling, assessed against the organisation’s controls the moment anything changes.
“A certificate is a photograph of one day, and like every photograph it stops being true the moment it’s taken,” said Raif Al Bedewi, Founder and CEO of CyberHeed. “Most compliance tools were built to collect evidence faster. Collecting was never really the hard part, and it’s largely solved. The hard part is judgment: whether a control actually holds, in your context, today. Live Integrations doesn’t just pull the signal, it assesses it against your controls the moment anything changes.”
Assurance, not just compliance
CyberHeed argues the GRC market has optimised for speed to certification. Speed was a real problem, just not the one that decides whether an organisation is secure. Passing an audit confirms that controls looked correct on a single day. It says little about whether they hold in the months between assessments, as permissions change, devices fall out of patch, and policies acquire quiet exceptions that never make it back into the documentation.
Live Integrations addresses this by pulling live signals on their own cycle, daily, weekly, or monthly depending on the control, and evaluating them not against a generic checklist but against the organisation’s specific context. When configuration diverges from what a control expects, the platform surfaces the exposure with remediation guidance tied to what changed and why it matters. At launch, Live Integrations connects with GitHub, Microsoft Defender for Endpoint, Microsoft Entra ID, and Microsoft Intune, with further connectors on the roadmap.
Built in Australia, for the frameworks Australian organisations answer to
CyberHeed is Australian-built and Australian-hosted, with native support for the frameworks local and Commonwealth-facing organisations are measured against, including the ACSC Essential Eight and ISO/IEC 27001, alongside a broader international library. The company was a finalist in the 2025 Australian AI Awards (AI Innovator – Cyber Security) and the 2026 Australian Cyber Awards (GRC Provider of the Year), and is itself ISO/IEC 27001:2022 certified.
CyberHeed was founded by Raif Al Bedewi, who spent his career leading cybersecurity at a major financial regulator in Dubai before relocating to Melbourne to build what he saw the industry lacked. He is a PhD candidate at the University of Melbourne, researching cybersecurity regulation.
“Most platforms certify you,” Al Bedewi said. “We wanted to build one that understands you first, your organisation, how it actually works, and then certifies you. The compliance is the same. The organisation that comes out the other side isn’t.”
About us:
CyberHeed is an Australian AI-powered governance, risk, and compliance platform that helps organisations build, manage, and maintain cybersecurity compliance across multiple frameworks. Founded by cybersecurity professionals and led by Raif Al Bedewi, PhD candidate at the University of Melbourne, CyberHeed is headquartered in Melbourne and serves organisations, regulators, MSSPs, and consultancies across APAC, the Middle East, and beyond.
