ASIC Cyber Resilience Good Practices
Protective Measures and Controls

ASIC Cyber Resilience Good Practices ASIC-CR-PR-1: Implement the ASD Essential Eight

Implement the Australian Signals Directorate's Essential Eight strategies to mitigate targeted cyber incidents, and self-assess maturity using the Essential Eight Maturity Model.

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This control maps to 17 controls across 3 other frameworks. If you already hold one of them, the evidence you collected for it is the starting point here rather than new work.

ACSC Essential Eight · 8 controls

  • E8-ADMIN-ML1 Restrict Administrative Privileges (ML1)
  • E8-APP-ML1 Application Control (ML1)
  • E8-BACKUP-ML1 Regular Backups (ML1)
  • E8-MACRO-ML1 Configure Microsoft Office Macro Settings (ML1)
  • E8-MFA-ML1 Multi-Factor Authentication - Maturity Level 1
  • E8-PATCHAPP-ML1 Patch Applications (ML1)
  • E8-PATCHOS-ML1 Patch Operating Systems (ML1)
  • E8-UAH-ML1 User Application Hardening - Maturity Level 1

ASD Strategies to Mitigate Cyber Security Incidents · 8 controls

  • ASD37-01 Application control (Essential)
  • ASD37-02 Patch applications (Essential)
  • ASD37-03 Configure Microsoft Office macro settings (Essential)
  • ASD37-04 User application hardening (Essential)
  • ASD37-18 Restrict administrative privileges (Essential)
  • ASD37-19 Patch operating systems (Essential)
  • ASD37-20 Multi-factor authentication (Essential)
  • ASD37-34 Regular backups (Essential)

NIST Cybersecurity Framework 2.0 · 1 control

Every mapping shown was judged rather than inferred from wording similarity, and the ones that failed review are published too. See the coverage reports and what was rejected.

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