Someone comes up and claims to be authorised to enter. You’re guarding the door into a building. With the right choices for MFA, privileges restricted to “as needed”, and smart reactions to user behaviours, you’ll see how “never trust, always verify” becomes an achievable goal for cyber security for your organisation. Zero trust becomes a realistic approach that offers reinforced cyber security while safeguarding the user experience and accelerating your Essential Eight maturity. This article discusses multifactor authentication (MFA) and the restriction of admin privileges as part of the ASD Essential Eight security controls.

Uncontrolled user access and unlimited user privileges mean that anyone can do anything in your IT systems, a recipe for immediate cyber security breaches. Don’t delay, view today, and make sure that your organisation has the cybersecurity that it needs! For each strategy, the levels in the model show how to move from partly, to mostly, and then to fully aligned with the intent of the mitigation strategy.Ī series of practical webinars presented by Microsoft Australia can also help you accelerate towards a robust, well-rounded cyber protection foundation.

To help with implementation, the ASD has defined an Essential Eight maturity model. The Australian Cyber Security Centre (ACSC), based within the Australian Signals Directorate (ASD) recommends that all organisations implement these Essential Eight controls for mitigating cyber attacks. Part of a larger group of 37 mitigation strategies for effectively dealing with cybersecurity incidents, the Essential Eight are ones that are rated as… essential! Want to know what you should be focusing on for your organisation’s cybersecurity? The ASD Essential Eight security controls are exactly what you need.

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