Implement the ACSC Essential 8
Reduce cyber security risks by 85% when you adopt the "Essential Eight" recommended requirements of the ACSC.
Reduce cyber security risks by 85% when you adopt the "Essential Eight" recommended requirements of the ACSC.
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The ACSC Essential 8, (expanded version of ASD Top 4) is a list of essential eight mitigation strategies for businesses and large organisations to prevent cyber security incidents. The Australian Signals Directorate (ASD), in agreement with the Australian Cyber Security Centre (ACSC) has developed the Essential 8 strategies to improve security controls, protect organisations’ computing resources and systems and keep data secure against cyber security threats.
While mandatory for government agencies to an advanced maturity level 3, organisations in the private sector are increasingly looking to the ACSC Essential 8 as best practices to secure their environments and mitigate cyber security incidents. Among the most effective security measures available, implementing whitelisting, patching and restricting administrative privileges will help protect your organisation from 85% of the intrusion techniques to which the ACSC responds. Mitigate risk, reduce threat vectors, and improve remediation and recovery.
Cyber threats pose many challenges, and there’s no silver bullet to combat them. But you can radically improve your security with a multi-layered approach.
Keep desktop and server, Windows and Linux platforms up to date.
Automate updates and deploy patches to 3rd party applications which account for 86% of vulnerabilities
Understand the threat posture of your organization with reporting in real time. You can also check the Australian Government Information Security Manual (ISM) which includes more information on ACSC Australia and the Essential 8 mitigation strategies and how to implement them.
You can also check the Australian Government Information Security Manual (ISM) which includes more information on ACSC Australia and the Essential 8 mitigation strategies and how to implement them.