What Are the Essential Eight?
The Essential Eight was introduced by the Australian Cyber Security Centre (ACSC) in 2017. Starting with a holistic list of 37 strategies that can mitigate cybersecurity incidents, the ACSC categorised each based on its relevance to Australian businesses, ranging from ‘Essential’ to ‘Limited’. The strategies classed as ‘Essential’ became the Essential Eight.
Each strategy includes a variety of prescriptive controls for technical implementation, along with stipulated timeframes for specific processes and initiation activities.
The Essential Eight cybersecurity strategies come in four Maturity Levels (numbered zero to three). Each level represents progressively robust cybersecurity defences, meeting increasing minimum criteria, and provides protection against adversaries of rising sophistication and determination.
As your organisation advances through the maturity levels, the number of controls required for each mitigation strategy increases, and the criteria to meet controls fulfilled at earlier maturity stages become increasingly strict.
The ACSC encourages every business to select a target maturity level based on its unique risks and the likelihood that different types of adversaries will target it.
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