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Gain cyber resilience with Essential Eight strategies

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Evolution of the Essential Eight

The Australian Signals Directorate (ASD) has announced the ACSC Essential 8 will be retired over the next two years and replaced by a broader, more flexible Essentials framework. Grounded in the ASD’s Information Security Manual (ISM), the new Essentials framework will offer prioritised, threat‑informed mitigations, practical tools and clear implementation guidance. Organisations already using the Essential 8 can expect strong alignment with their existing controls and investments, while new adopters will benefit from established best‑practice guidance.

While the model is evolving, the core controls and security outcomes remain relevant, ensuring organisations’ current investments continue to deliver strong cyber resilience.

See how to reduce the attack surface with discovery, patching and privilege control.

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Achieve SaaS Essential 8 Compliance with One Vendor

Ivanti delivers a purpose-built platform that breaks down the barriers between IT Operations and Security, enabling organisations to adopt the ACSC Essential 8 controls all on a single SaaS platform. Irrespective of the level of maturity you are looking to achieve Ivanti can assist in achieving compliance.

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Achieve strong cyber resilience with one vendor

Ivanti’s autonomous endpoint management solutions delivers a purpose-built platform that breaks down the barriers between IT Operations and Security, enabling organisations to mitigate threats all on a single SaaS platform.

Simplify Implementation of the Essential 8

Ivanti have designed Essential 8 Solution Bundles to help customers reduce cyber risks by addressing the highest risks in their environment first. The goal is to reduce the attack surface to make sure all hygiene efforts have a positive impact and improve Essential 8 alignment.

Professional bundle is aimed at customers utilising Microsoft Intune and looking to augment this with Application Control and supporting controls.
Premium bundle is designed for those looking for deeper visibility of their assets and attack surface, coupled with a cloud-native patch management solution for a risk-based approach to vulnerability remediation.

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Strengthen security with multiple layers of defence

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.

Understand your Attack Surface

The ACSC recommends you understand your hardware & software assets before starting Essential 8 implementation.

Application Control

Application allowlisting prevents unauthorised code execution to protect against ransomware and malware. See how Ivanti helps to simplify and streamline management of this essential control from the cloud.

Patch the OS

Ensure all your operating systems are updated with the latest patches using a risk-based approach. Support for Windows, macOS and Linux from one SaaS platform.

Patch 3rd party applications

Automate updates and deploy patches to 3rd party applications which account for 86% of vulnerabilities. Integrate with Microsoft Intune or Ivanti cloud-native delivery.

Privilege management

Implement a least privilege model to protect and limit lateral movement. Remove full admin rights to servers and define who can use specific devices and applications.

Harden applications

Control how applications are configured and interact with the system and user environment.

Manage macros

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Multi factor authentication

Enable zero sign on with passwordless authentication by using mobile devices as the user ID and primary factor for authentication.

Compliance you can prove

Understand the threat posture of your organization with reporting in real time. You can check the Australian Government Information Security Manual (ISM) for more information on 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.

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