Since we’ve quickened our pace towards making the Essential Eight mandatory for some (and hopefully almost all) organisations, I’m pleased to see many businesses taking this seriously and making the strategies a key part of their future security vision. They offer increased guidance as businesses implement the Essential Eight to keep pace with (and even get ahead of) the evolving threat landscape. Overall, I am quite chuffed with the changes. While the eight overarching strategies remained the same, with minor tweaks to names (like changing ‘Daily Backups’ to ‘Regular Backups’ and previously adjusting ‘Application Whitelisting’ to ‘Application Control’), the controls are more granular, and cover more ground. The new model is thorough in addressing omissions from previous versions. On July 12, 2021, the Australian Cyber Security Centre (ACSC) updated the Essential Eight Strategies to Mitigate Cybersecurity Incidents Maturity Model, to keep pace with the current threat landscape.
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