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CPS 230: How to apply the operational risk management standard.

“CPS 230 isn’t just a compliance exercise, it’s a catalyst for stronger risk governance, real-time resilience, and operational maturity.”
Michael Howell, Head of Risk Research & Knowledge, Protecht

About this eBook 

APRA's CPS 230 Operational Risk Management Standard is now live. For many APRA-regulated entities, the focus has shifted from meeting the deadline to confronting a more difficult question: 

Is your operational risk and resilience capability truly embedded, or just documented? 

This eBook is designed to support the next phase of your CPS 230 journey. It helps you: 

  • Identify and close gaps in your implementation 
  • Improve control testing, tolerance tracking, and assurance 
  • Align your program with APRA’s evolving expectations 
  • Bring risk, continuity and vendor management together in a single view 

Whether you're reviewing your program, responding to regulator feedback, or preparing for board reporting—this guide is your roadmap for turning compliance into lasting capability. 

What you'll learn

  • How to audit and improve your CPS 230 implementation 
  • What to fix across governance, critical operations and third-party risk 
  • How to sustain controls testing and impact tolerance tracking 
  • Tips for post-deadline reporting to boards, execs and APRA 
  • How Protecht ERM helps embed and maintain compliance at scale 
  • What to fix across governance, critical operations and third-party risk 

Who's it for?

  • Risk and compliance teams reviewing CPS 230 readiness 
  • Operational resilience, continuity and vendor risk owners 
  • Program leads responsible for ongoing controls and assurance 
  • Executives seeking real-time oversight and simplified reporting 

How Protecht helps

You can cover all the requirements of the CPS 230 standards with Protecht’s single, off-the-shelf ERM software solution. Ensure that risk stakeholders, executives and the board have insight into critical operations, material service providers, risks and controls.

Protecht ERM streamlines CPS 230 compliance by centralising registers, controls, risk assessments, and reporting. It enables automated workflows for monitoring material service providers, mapping critical operations, testing business continuity plans, and producing APRA-aligned reports.

This reduces manual effort, enhances accuracy, and provides real-time assurance for boards and regulators.

Find out more about Protecht and CPS 230.