The Australian Signals Directorate has developed a number of strategies to mitigate cybersecurity incidents to help organisations protect themselves against various cyber threats. The most effective of these mitigation strategies are known as the Essential Eight.
While no set of mitigation strategies are guaranteed to protect against all cyber threats, organisations are recommended to implement the Essential Eight strategies as a baseline, which constitutes:
- patching applications
- patching operating systems
- multi-factor authentication
- restrict administrative privileges
- application control
- restrict Microsoft Office macros
- user application hardening
- regular backups.