Australia ACSC Essential Eight
ASD's Essential Eight Maturity Model — the foundational cyber baseline for Australian government and broadly used in the private sector.
Commonwealth entities (mandatory at Maturity Level 2+) and broadly adopted in the private sector.
Continuous evidence pipeline available; audit support included for all customers.
What Essential Eight actually requires.
These are the obligations a regulated entity owes — the things an assessor or supervisor will ask about.
Eight mitigation strategies: application control, patch applications, configure Microsoft Office macros, user application hardening, restrict admin privileges, patch operating systems, MFA, regular backups.
Maturity Levels 1 / 2 / 3.
Pre-mapped controls. Continuous evidence.
Each requirement above is bound to live telemetry — not screenshots. The mapping below is what your auditor or regulator sees.
Essential Eight maturity dashboard with per-strategy evidence.
Crosswalks to ISM controls and SOCI Act expectations.
Artifacts your auditor accepts.
Each evidence artifact is signed and timestamped. Auditors can verify integrity without trusting Safeguard.
Essential Eight maturity assessment.
Per-strategy evidence pack.
One evidence base. Many regulators.
These frameworks share substantial control overlap with Essential Eight. Customers running one assessment typically satisfy the others with the same evidence base.
Australia SOCI Act
APAC
Australia's Security of Critical Infrastructure Act — risk management programs and incident reporting for 11 sectors.
APRA CPS 234
APAC
APRA's prudential standard on information security for ADIs, insurers, and superannuation funds.
New Zealand NZISM
APAC
New Zealand's Information Security Manual — the national baseline for government and crown entities.
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