Australia
Essential Eight
The Australian Signals Directorate's eight baseline mitigation strategies.
Who it applies to
Australian government bodies and the many companies that adopt it as a baseline.
What it can cost
Lost deals, failed audits and penalties set by your regulator or contract.
- Published by
- Australian Signals Directorate
- Maturity levels
- Zero to three
- Strategies
- Eight
What Essential Eight asks of you
- 01Application control
- 02Patch applications
- 03Office macro settings
- 04User application hardening
- 05Restrict admin privileges
- 06Patch operating systems
- 07Multi-factor authentication
- 08Regular backups
How orta covers Essential Eight
8 Essential Eight requirements, mapped
Each requirement is linked to orta's common controls, so evidence you already have counts here too.
Checked from your own systems
Host, Kubernetes and AWS checks run on a schedule and mark controls passing or failing, every day.
Ready for your auditor
Give them a read-only login to see controls, evidence and documents in one place.