ACSC Essential Eight covers 32.4% of ASD Strategies to Mitigate Cyber Security Incidents
12 of the 37 controls in ASD Strategies to Mitigate Cyber Security Incidents are already satisfied by evidence you collected for ACSC Essential Eight. 25 are genuine gaps. Every claim below was judged against both control sets and then argued against; the ones that did not survive are published further down with the reason each failed.
This number is directional. It says how much of ASD Strategies to Mitigate Cyber Security Incidents your ACSC Essential Eight evidence satisfies. The reverse pair is a different number, often very different, because a security standard has enormous depth for access control and almost none for lawful basis or data subject rights.
29 candidate mappings were examined and 0 were removed. Signed off 2026-08-19, review level machine verified. Mappings were judged by Claude Code rather than read line by line by a practitioner. Every claim shows its reasoning so you can check it. Ask and a practitioner will review this pair.
Where the gaps are
Coverage is never evenly spread. A source standard usually satisfies one part of a target almost completely and barely touches another, and which part is which is the thing worth knowing before you plan the work.
Theme level, not control level, deliberately. The per-control list of what is evidenced and what is a gap is the report itself, so publishing it here would be publishing the thing being sold.
Claims that held
A sample. Each one names the control whose evidence does the work, the control it satisfies, and why.
Control extends to internet facing servers and all locations, with a vendor blocklist.
Application control restricts executables, libraries, scripts and installers to an approved set.
The forty eight hour window covers priority applications where working exploits exist.
Applications outside the priority classes are scanned fortnightly and patched within one month.
Critical application patches are applied within forty eight hours and unsupported versions removed.
Macros are additionally blocked from making Win32 API calls.
Macros from the internet are blocked, macros disabled without business need, settings locked.
Browsers, office suites and PDF readers are hardened to published guidance.
Claims that did not hold
Nothing proposed for this pair was rejected in review. That is unusual and worth knowing rather than hiding: it means the candidate set was small and every candidate held.
The full report
Everything above is a sample. The report is every evidenced control and every gap, with the reasoning and the source document behind each one, in a form you can hand to an assessor. $299, emailed immediately.
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