Essential Eight: Your Strategic Cybersecurity Roadmap

The ACSC Essential Eight Maturity Framework delivers progressive, risk-based cybersecurity protection that scales with your organisation's threat landscape, providing a clear pathway from basic commodity threat defence to advanced protection against sophisticated adversaries through four structured maturity levels.

Developed specifically for mid-sized Australian businesses and Government departments, its adoption is a requirement for many Organisations with Government contracts, or regulatory reporting requirements.

As a framework, the Essential Eight maturity levels are non-prescriptive when it comes to solution design, hardware selection or even "best practice" alignment - it is, after-all, a framework rather than a standard.

The Essential Eight framework features Eight control categories, 4 maturity levels and some 132 individual controls that require assessment and integration into the specific processes and policies of an Organisation - this is no trivial task and one that requires understanding of both the framework and the particular requirements, risk profile and operational cadence of the business.

Microsolve have adopted Maturity level 1 and 2 controls across the delivery of the majority of our support services as identified below.