The Essential Eight for Security program

Don’t miss this upcoming introductory webinar session, facilitated by Mark Anderson, Microsoft Australia’s National Security Officer, to learn more about:

• The threat landscape – where and how risks are increasing for your organisation.
• What is the Essential Eight? – what the controls are, how they came about, and how they can offer protection?
• The Essential Eight in practice – learn about how NSW Department of Customer Service implemented some of these controls.
• Best practice tips and recommendations – key insights about how to get the most out of the Essential Eight for your organisation.

This session will cover these topics to help you accelerate your Essential Eight maturity journey:

• Understand how you can effectively manage patching in your end user computing environment using Microsoft Modern Management and Windows Update for Business
• Explore how you can effectively manage patching across your data centre (whether on-premises, in the cloud, or both)
• Discover how you can manage threats and vulnerabilities more effectively through Microsoft's TVM capabilities

This session will cover these topics to help you accelerate your Essential Eight maturity journey:

• Understand how you can leverage Identity and Authentication features in Azure AD at Levels 1, 2 and 3 of the Essential Eight maturity model
• Explore how Azure AD Conditional Access brings all these features together to help you accelerate your zero trust journey
• Discover how the Essential Eight template in the Microsoft 365 Compliance Manager tool helps you accelerate your Essential Eight maturity

This session will cover these topics to help you accelerate your Essential Eight maturity journey:

• Understand how you can leverage key Microsoft Security capabilities to harden the security posture of your digital estate
• Explore how you can implement effective application control to prevent the execution of unapproved and/or malicious programs across your digital estate

This session will cover these topics to help you accelerate your Essential Eight maturity journey:

• Provide Application Hardening guidance and insights across the ASD Essential 8 maturity levels
• Describe the Security Baselines available to expedite Application Hardening across Windows, Office and Edge
• Summarise the options available to control web application access through web content filtering and shadow IT management
• Provide Office Macro configuration guidance and insights across the ASD Essential 8 maturity levels

This session will cover these topics to help you accelerate your Essential Eight maturity journey:

• Mitigation strategies to recover data and system availability, including restoring system state through Windows autopilot
• Backup and availability addressed in Office 365
• Leveraging the Azure backup service to backup your on-premises and Azure resources