ESSENTIAL EIGHT COMPLIANCE SERVICES

Reduce your security risks and harden your controls to protect your organisation's critical information and data by implementing the Essential Eight mitigation strategies.

Understanding the Essential 8



    The Essential 8 is a set of mitigation strategies, developed and maintained by the Australian Cyber Security Centre (ACSC), that are designed to help organisations of all sizes protect themselves from the online threats that are recognised as being the root cause of most intrusion events and unplanned outages.

    These cybersecurity advisory services can be applied across a broad spectrum of networks, systems and applications, from local installations through to cloud and other online services - although it is largely targeted at Microsoft Windows based networks. Essential 8 provides the building blocks of a robust cybersecurity strategy.

What does the Essential 8 focus on?

Each element of the Essential 8 focuses on a different aspect of cybersecurity strategy: the eight core elements identified as the most common areas resulting in cybersecurity incidents. The Essential Eight provide information and data management strategies, and guidance on secure configuration, to protect the confidentiality, integrity and availability of an organisation's critical information and data.


The Essential 8 focus areas are:

  • Application control
  • Patch applications
  • Configure Microsoft Office macro settings
  • User application hardening
  • Restrict administrative privileges
  • Patch operating systems
  • Multi-factor authentication
  • Regular backups


    How can Tesserent help you reach Essential Eight (E8) Compliance?

    A current state assessment of your current controls against the Essential Eight mitigation strategies.

    Develop a tailored plan to bridge the gaps between your current state and the right level of Essential Eight maturity.

    Help implement or update a rigourous vulnerability management solution or provide sanity checks on existing systems.

    Provide services to implement the right controls, governance and procedures to reach your desired E8 maturity level.

    Do you need a tailored Essential Eight maturity roadmap?