ACSC

Essential 8 Maturity Assessment

The Essential 8 framework, developed by the Australian Cyber Security Centre (ACSC), is strategically tailored to reduce your organization’s vulnerability to cyber threats. This comprehensive approach is structured into three key segments:

Prevention: Proactive measures to avert unauthorized access and attacks.
Limitation: Strategies to confine the impact of potential security incidents.
Recovery: Robust recovery plans to ensure business continuity in the wake of cyber events.

Discover the resilience of your company’s cyber defenses with an Essential 8 Assessment. This critical evaluation is not just about identifying weaknesses—it’s an investment in fortifying your business against the ever-evolving landscape of cyber threats. As leaders and decision-makers, understanding and enhancing your cybersecurity posture is imperative to safeguard your organization’s future.

ACSC

Essential 8 Assessment

The Essential 8 Security framework is strategically tailored to reduce your organization’s vulnerability to cyber threats. This comprehensive approach is structured into three key segments:

Prevention: Proactive measures to avert unauthorized access and attacks.
Limitation: Strategies to confine the impact of potential security incidents.
Recovery: Robust recovery plans to ensure business continuity in the wake of cyber events.

Discover the resilience of your company’s cyber defences with Cymax’s Essential 8 Security Assessment.

We can support your organisation through all of the Essential 8 maturity Levels.

The ACSC’s Essential 8 Security Framework provides your organisation with the following benefits:

Prevent:

Application Control: Ensuring only authorised applications run, thereby blocking unauthorised and potentially harmful programs, including malicious code.
Patch Applications: Addressing known security weaknesses in applications to prevent them from being exploited for malicious code execution.
Configure Microsoft Office Macro Settings: Configuring settings to prevent untrusted macros, which can be vectors for delivering and executing malicious code on your systems.
User Application Hardening: Strengthening your security posture against vulnerabilities in features like Flash, Java, and ads commonly exploited by adversaries to deploy and run malicious code.

Limit:

Restrict Administrative Privileges: Limiting high-level access to systems, reducing the risk of adversaries gaining comprehensive control over information and systems.
Patch Operating Systems: Fixing known flaws in operating systems to prevent them from being leveraged to compromise system integrity further.
Multi-Factor Authentication: Enhancing security for sensitive operations through robust user authentication, making it more challenging for adversaries to access important information and systems.

Recover:

Regular Backups : Keeping critical and sensitive data readily available and ensuring accessibility post-cybersecurity incidents.

This critical evaluation is not just about identifying weaknesses—it’s an investment in fortifying your business against the ever-evolving landscape of cyber threats.

As leaders and decision-makers, understanding and enhancing your cybersecurity posture is imperative to safeguard your organization’s future.

Contact us to discover how your organisation measures against the Essential 8 framework.

We offer these optional add-ons to our Essential 8 managed services packages:

Microsoft 365 Tenancy Hardening, ongoing maintenance and security
Data Inspection and classification of Personally Identifiable Information (PII)
3rd Pary Penetration (Pen) Testing
PCI DSS Assessments
ISO 27001 Assessments

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