A government standard guidelines to improve the cybersecurity of organisations. Protect your business from cyber threats with the Australian Cyber Security Centre’s Essential Eight cyber security framework. The Essential Eight is a set of mitigation strategies recommended by the ACSC as a baseline to make it much harder for adversaries to compromise systems. We provide comprehensive cyber security services in Australiato help SMEs, enterprises, and government agencies implement these eight essential strategies and protect your organisation from cyber threats.
It provides a roadmap for organizations to prioritize their cybersecurity efforts, ensuring that they are focusing on the most critical risks.
By implementing the Essential Eight, organizations can significantly improve their overall security posture, reducing their risk of a successful cyber attack.
It is a cost-effective approach to cybersecurity, as it focuses on the most critical risks and does not require extensive investment in technology.
Implementing best practices from government standard for cybersecurity can help protect citizens, businesses, and the country as a whole from the growing threat of cyberattacks
Many organizations are required to comply with cybersecurity regulations and standards. Essential Eight provides a roadmap to meet these requirements and improve overall compliance.
The Essential Eight is an Australian cyber security framework comprising eight crucial strategies from the ACSC’s “Strategies to Mitigate Cyber Security Incidents.” Introduced in 2017 (expanding on the ASD’s original Top 4), the Essential Eight has become the baseline for cyber defence across Australia. These mitigation strategies cover the most common attack vectors and collectively provide multi-layered protection. In fact, the ACSC strongly recommends all Australian organisations adopt the Essential Eight as a baseline because doing so “makes it much harder for adversaries to compromise systems.”
Ensure only trusted, approved applications can run on systems
Promptly apply security patches to third-party. Critical Patch update in 48 Hours.
Disable or restrict macros in Office documents, especially from untrusted sources
Harden user applications by turning off or removing risky features that aren’t needed.
Limit admin accounts to only those who truly need them, and use the principle of least privilege,
Keep operating systems (Windows, macOS, Linux) up to date with the latest security patches
Require MFA for all users, especially for remote access and privileged accounts.
Perform daily or frequent backups of important data, software and configuration settings. Store backups securely offsite or offline.
The auditor works on the scope of the audit establishes objectives and develops a plan for conducting the audit.
The auditors identify the people, processes and technologies that are in scope for the audit and identify potential attack vectors using design review and threat assessment.
Considering risks derived from the threat assessment, the auditors devise robust method to evaluate each control sufficing due diligence
We integrate a multi-method approach using NZISM, ISO 27001, NIST 800-53 and PCI DSS to guide the audit process. The approach makes the audit rigorous.
The auditor looks into the effectiveness of the control to verify its presence to reduce the likelihood of threat and risks.
The auditors collect and collate the evidence from different sources to conclude. The auditors take the necessary step to draw an evidence-based report.
Saves time by using audit methodology through unfied assessment of different standards.
Having Tri or more sources of evidences gives credible results for cyber security assessments.
We state true facts or findings corroborated by evidence.
The audit methology indicates the your probable risks and, findings give you true posture of risk-Mitigated or elevated !!!
