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ASD Essential 8 solution overview
The ASD Essential 8 is a cybersecurity framework by the Australian Signals Directorate (ASD) with eight strategies to protect against cyber intrusions, including application whitelisting, patching, restricting administrative privileges, enabling multi-factor authentication, daily backups, disabling untrusted macros, and hardening user applications.
The 6clicks platform simplifies compliance with cybersecurity standards like the ASD Essential 8. It includes templates for Essential 8 assessments and offers features for third-party risk management, auditing other frameworks (ISO 27001, IRAP, VPDSS, etc.), and integrated end-to-end risk management for easy remediation.
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Assessment and reporting
Leverage ready-to-go ASD Essential 8 maturity assessment templates (Level 1, Level 2 and Level 3), including out-of-the-box paginated report templates and analytics for assessments results.
Issue and action planning
Raise issues and actions (automatically) based on observed non-conformity with the ASD Essential 8 in order to create and manage corrective actions through to closure.
Risk and treatment planning
Raise risks and risk treatment plans (automatically) based on observed non-conformity with the ASD Essential 8 in order to create and manage any risk acceptance and long term treatment plans. Also consider carrying out a top-down cyber risk assessment using a risk library and risk review workflow in advance of carrying out your ASD Essential 8 control assessment.
Ongoing policies and control management
Following remediation, take advantage of 6clicks' policy and control set module to put in place ongoing measures to ensure the continued effective operation of ASD Essential 8 controls including configuration/control reviews and scheduled tests.
Explore our expert's guide to ASD Essential 8
This authoritative guide provides an in-depth look at the ASD Essential 8 (E8), a set of eight measures developed by the Australian Signals Directorate (ASD) to protect organizations from cyber threats.
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