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ASD Essential Eight

Australian Signals Directorate, ASD Essential Eight

Australia’s baseline mitigation strategies against cyber threats, assessed across maturity levels one to three.

  • Application control and patching applications
  • Microsoft Office macro settings and user application hardening
  • Restricting admin privileges and patching operating systems
  • Multi-factor authentication
  • Regular backups

Best for: Government and regulated organisations in Australia.

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