XCELIT's Fully Managed Essential 8 Cyber Security Service

Essential 8 Cyber Security is a series of Cyber Security strategies that when implemented make it much harder for adversaries to compromise systems. Essential 8 Cyber Security strategies include:

• Application Control
• Application Patching
• Restricting Administrative Privileges
• Patching Operating Systems
• Configuring Microsoft Office Macro Settings
• Undertaking Application Hardening
• Multi-Factor Authentication
• Undertaking Regular Backups
• EDR or XDR for logging to report security incidents at endpoints
• SIEM (SIEM-as-a-Service) for logging to report security incidents

Recommended Essential 8 Cyber Security strategies do change over time which is why there are currently 10 Essential 8 Cyber Security strategies listed. A more appropriate name may now be Cyber Security Essentials because this is in essence what the Essential 8 represents.

Businesses can assess their Cyber Security Maturity against alignment with the Essential 8 Cyber Security Strategies.  Compliance with The Essential 8 Cyber Security strategies are set out as four maturity levels:

• Zero: Not aligned
• One: Partly aligned
• Two: Mostly aligned
• Three: Fully aligned

In our experience it is best for every organisation to aim for Essential 8 Cyber Security Maturity Level Two with SIEM as a minimum. Lower maturity levels invite challenge from Threat Actors. 

XCELIT, Microsoft and Essential 8 Cyber Security

Microsoft provides many of the required services for Essential 8 Cyber Security, which are listed here:

https://www.microsoft.com/en-au/business/topic/security/essential-eight/

XCELIT provides full Essential 8 Cyber Security implementation and management, across the Microsoft Suite of services including:

• Application control
• Patch Management, with critical patches within 48 hours
• Multifactor authentication
• User application hardening
• Backups and disaster recovery
• Microsoft Defender and XDR
• Microsoft Sentinel SIEM + SOAR

Hybrid solutions that incorporate both Microsoft and other vendors are sometimes needed or preferred by clients. XCELIT can manage and implement all Essential 8 Cyber Security requirements to achieve Maturity Level Three (full maturity) compliance with Essential 8 Cyber Security Strategies.

Our Fully Managed Essential 8 Cyber Security Service

We provide a Managed Service for The Essential 8, providing the people, processes, technology and knowhow to lift your organisation to full Essential 8 Compliance.

To achieve Maturity Level Two or Three (full maturity) compliance with Essential 8 Cyber Security Strategies, we provide

• the people to undertake required implementation, monitoring and response activities
• the technology needed to achieve full Essential 8 compliance
• regularly report on Essential 8 compliance

To learn more about XCELIT, please visit our website:

https://xcelit.io/

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