Essential 8 Overview
Since 2010 the Australian government has disseminated information to improve cybersecurity and better protect our nation’s digital assets. The “Essential-8” is the latest iteration that began with the Defence Signals Directorate’s (DSD now ASD) “Top 35” mitigation strategies. Over the ensuing decade little has changed with poor patching still posing the most insidious risk to organisations. The ASD have distilled more than a decade of analysis into the Essential-8 analysis that will help organisations of every size validate their existing safeguards and prioritise their security requirements based on cold, hard data from an independent source.
Airlock Digital Whitelisting is built to scale with ease in Enterprise class environments or is equally at home within SMB ecosystems. The solution can be rapidly deployed, is easily integrated into existing infrastructure and helps organisations become more secure by enforcing controls across all files and applications across the organisation and digital assets. Whitelisting helps achieve compliance with PCI-DSS and HIPAA standards and is a security safeguard recommended by the ADSD and NIST.
SafeNet’s Trusted Access suite offers Identity-as-a-Service (IaaS) and Single-Sign-On (SSO) to bolster identity safeguards and streamline Cloud identity management, password administration and enforcement of security policies.Flexible Cloud management lowers the complexity and cost of administration while IaaS lowers the risk of error, omission or oversight. For environments that demand rigorous compliance enforcement, IaaS provides an independent, unimpeachable audit trail and the means to glean insights into access policies.
Thycotic’s Enterprise grade PAM enables administrators to discover, manage, assign access using RBAC to accounts from a central dashboard. The Thycotic solution is a low impact PAM that’s simple to deploy in either terrestrial on-premises environments or in the Cloud and provides an important layer of added security to lock-down employee or third-party privilege. Thycotic’s solution family includes password and service account administration to provide a comprehensive range of layered security safeguards.
Software patching still poses one of the gravest security threats to organisations. Flexera’s Software Vulnerability Manager’s “Vendor Patch Management” solution identifies, prioritises and remediates gaps in application and operating system patching. Flexera’s Secunia Research division provides Enterprise class security research that captures data from software vendors and enables IT administrators to keep abreast of patching threats.