ACSC Essential 8 Cybersecurity Strategies | Qualys
Summary: The ACSC's Essential 8, first published in 2017 as an evolution of the Australian Signals Directorate's mitigation strategies, sets out eight security controls with four maturity levels, where ML 3 requirements rose from 29 to 69. The blog ties rising adoption to recent Australian breaches, including Medibank Private and Optus, and cites a reported 489 percent increase in data breaches in Australia in the last quarter of 2022 versus previously reported figures.
Key Takeaway: The ACSC recommends the highest maturity level an organization can reach, but ML 3 now carries 69 requirements rather than 29 - a gap that lands on teams already juggling separate agents and dashboards for each control.
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