Essential Eight #4: Restrict Administrative Privileges
This article is the fourth in an eight-part series examining the Australian Cyber Security Centre’s Essential Eight — a baseline set of mitigation strategies recommended for all Australian organisations. The first three Essential Eight strategies focus on preventing attackers from gaining access — through unpatched vulnerabilities or stolen credentials. The fourth strategy acknowledges a harder […]
Essential Eight #1: Patch Applications
This article is the first in an eight-part series examining the Australian Cyber Security Centre’s Essential Eight — a baseline set of mitigation strategies recommended for all Australian organisations. Software is never finished. Every application in use across a business — web browsers, email clients, PDF readers, productivity suites — contains code written by humans, […]