Essential 8 Audit

How can Azlink help with assessing my Essential 8 security posture?

  • Providing recommendations to enhance your security controls while fully adhering to zero trust principles.

  • As an experienced MSP, Azlink combines consulting expertise with service delivery to help simplify and organise the overall journey.

The Essential 8 is a set of eight cyber security controls that help protect against cyber threats. It’s an Australian framework that provides a baseline level of protection for commonwealth entities.

What’s in the Essential 8?

  • Application control: Restricts the execution of software and scripts on user profiles and temporary folders

  • Application patching: Fixes vulnerabilities in applications

  • Restricting administrative privileges: Limits who can access sensitive data

  • Patching operating systems: Fixes vulnerabilities in operating systems

  • Configuring Microsoft Office macro settings: Restricts the use of macros

  • User application hardening: Strengthens applications

  • Multi-factor authentication: Requires multiple factors to log in to services

  • Regular backups: Creates copies of data to restore from in case of a cyber attack