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ACSC Essential Eight

24 controls. 34 other frameworks in our corpus share controls with it. Here is all of it, and how much of it you are already doing.

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24 controls 34 frameworks share controls with it Australia verified against its source document

Every control below is one this framework asks for. The right hand column counts how many other frameworks in our corpus carry the same control, which is the difference between doing this work once and doing it again for the next standard.

ACSC Essential Eight Evidence & Implementation Kit

24 controls is the documentation set somebody has to write. This is that set, already written: an adopt-ready artifact for every control in policy and procedure text you edit rather than draft, and the evidence checklist an auditor asks for against each.

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The same set every buyer of this kit receives. Nothing here is produced on request.

What you already have

Frameworks whose controls overlap this one, most first. If you run any of them, the count is roughly what you have already evidenced.

If you runShared controls
ASD Strategies to Mitigate Cyber Security Incidents24measure it →
Azure Security Benchmark24measure it →
CIS Controls v824measure it →
Cloud Security Alliance Cloud Controls Matrix (CCM) v4.0.124measure it →
FedRAMP High24measure it →
FedRAMP Moderate24measure it →
NIST SP 800-53 Rev 524measure it →
NIST SP 800-53 Rev 5 MODERATE24measure it →
NIST SP 800-53 Revision 5.1 HIGH24measure it →
CMMC 2.022measure it →
NIST SP 800-53 Rev 5 LOW22measure it →
C5 (Germany)21measure it →

Every control

CodeControlAlso in
E8-ADMIN-ML1Restrict Administrative Privileges (ML1)28
E8-ADMIN-ML2Restrict Administrative Privileges (ML2)27
E8-ADMIN-ML3Restrict Administrative Privileges (ML3)26
E8-APP-ML1Application Control (ML1)25
E8-APP-ML2Application Control (ML2)26
E8-APP-ML3Application Control (ML3)22
E8-BACKUP-ML1Regular Backups (ML1)26
E8-BACKUP-ML2Regular Backups (ML2)22
E8-BACKUP-ML3Regular Backups (ML3)21
E8-MACRO-ML1Configure Microsoft Office Macro Settings (ML1)24
E8-MACRO-ML2Configure Microsoft Office Macro Settings (ML2)11
E8-MACRO-ML3Configure Microsoft Office Macro Settings (ML3)18
E8-MFA-ML1Multi-Factor Authentication - Maturity Level 130
E8-MFA-ML2Multi-Factor Authentication - Maturity Level 227
E8-MFA-ML3Multi-Factor Authentication - Maturity Level 325
E8-PATCHAPP-ML1Patch Applications (ML1)29
E8-PATCHAPP-ML2Patch Applications (ML2)16
E8-PATCHAPP-ML3Patch Applications (ML3)21
E8-PATCHOS-ML1Patch Operating Systems (ML1)29
E8-PATCHOS-ML2Patch Operating Systems (ML2)17
E8-PATCHOS-ML3Patch Operating Systems (ML3)22
E8-UAH-ML1User Application Hardening - Maturity Level 121
E8-UAH-ML2User Application Hardening - Maturity Level 222
E8-UAH-ML3User Application Hardening - Maturity Level 323

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What this page is

A control-level reference for ACSC Essential Eight, drawn from our framework corpus. Control codes and titles are references to the standard, not reproductions of it. The overlap counts and the auditor artefacts are our own work and are the part you will not find elsewhere.

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