What are the Essential Eight Cyber Threat Mitigation Strategies?
Pacific Transcription achieves the highest level attainable for all Essential Eight Cyber Threat Mitigation Strategies, as set by the Australian Signals Directorate!
Pacific Transcription is pleased to announce that the company has successfully attained Maturity Level Three (the highest level attainable) across all eight Australian Signals Directorate’s Essential Eight Cyber Threat Mitigation Strategies.
What is the Essential Eight?
In November 2022 the Australian Signals Directorate (ASD) published a baseline set of mitigation strategies, called the “Essential Eight”, to help Australian companies mitigate cyber security incidents caused by various cyber threats.
While no set of mitigation strategies is guaranteed to protect against all cyber threats, implementing the Essential Eight Cyber Threat Mitigation Strategies helps Australian businesses make it much harder for adversaries to compromise their systems.
What Types of Cyber Threats are Targeted by the Essential Eight?
The types of cyber threats targeted and addressed by the Essential Eight Cyber Threat Mitigation Strategies include:
- targeted cyber intrusion, such as those executed by advanced persistent threats (i.e. foreign intelligence services) and other external adversaries who steal data,
- ransomware denying access to data for monetary gain, and external adversaries with destructive intent (i.e. to destroy data and prevent computers/networks from functioning),
- malicious insiders who steal data such as customer details or intellectual property, and/or who destroy data and prevent computers/networks from functioning,
- Business Email Compromise (BEC), where an adversary uses email to trick someone into sending money or divulging confidential company information, and
- industrial control systems.
The development of the Essential Eight Cyber Threat Mitigation Strategies has been informed by the ASD’s significant experience in responding to cyber security incidents, performing vulnerability assessments, and penetration testing in Australian government organisations.
What does this mean for Clients?
The implementation of the Essential Eight Cyber Threat Mitigation Strategies, as well as the successful and ongoing attainment of both ISO:27001 (Information Security Management Systems) and ISO:9001 (Quality Systems) Certifications means that Pacific’s clients can continue to have peace of mind that their data is safe with Pacific.
Cyber Security Continues to be a Major Concern for All Companies
As we are all acutely aware, cyber security continues to be a major concern for all companies. Much company time, expenditure, investment in infrastructure and secure systems, and external tests to evaluate data security is invested in identifying and mitigating these risks. However, the complexity and delivery of cyber threats continually evolve, making it difficult for everyday companies to keep abreast of developments.
Thankfully the Australian Signals Directorate, through the dedicated teams committed to monitoring, mitigating, testing, and preventing cyber threats, is actively helping companies by sharing their wealth of experience.
The Essential Eight Cyber Threat Mitigation Strategies is just one of the many tools developed by the ASD. The ASD is continually developing and communicating detailed and accurate cyber threat mitigation strategies and other useful information. Australian companies use these strategies, information, and tools to prevent and proactively address most threats to their cyber security systems.
For further information on the strategies and other tools Pacific Transcription implements to mitigate cyber threats, contact us today!
For further information on the ASD’s Essential Eight Cyber Threat Mitigation Strategies, contact the Australian Signals Directorate.
