ITGRC fits into a wider information security management upgrade, which itself is aimed at improving the agency's organisational capability, processes and tools to facilitate information security management transformation.

Wider still, the information security management upgrade is a component of an Efficient Technology Services (ETS) program, aimed at moving the state to a central whole-of-Victorian-government management system.

In July, CenITex was cited as an example of the in the wake of the news that the West Australian government would , following a report from the Economic Regulation Authority (ERA) which advised the state's shared service firm to cease rolling in new agencies and disband entirely.