Advance Essential Eight maturity with confidence
Implement mitigation strategies, assess maturity, and strengthen your cybersecurity posture with one integrated platform.
ASD Essential Eight AT A GLANCE
Align with Australia’s leading baseline for cyber resilience
Essential Eight helps organisations reduce exposure to common cyber threats through eight prioritised mitigation strategies.
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Framework overview
Developed by the Australian Signals Directorate, the Essential Eight is a set of mitigation strategies designed to help protect IT networks against a range of cyber threats.
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Key components
The framework includes eight mitigation strategies, such as application patching and multi-factor authentication, each assessed against defined maturity levels (0–3).
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Requirements
Organisations define their target maturity level, implement the mitigation strategies and supporting controls, and self-assess their maturity to achieve a consistent target level across all mitigation strategies.
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Who needs to comply
The framework is mandated for Australian Government non-corporate Commonwealth entities, and recommended for all Australian organisations seeking to strengthen their cybersecurity posture.
HOW 6CLICKS HELPS
Essential Eight implementation made simple
From turnkey content to AI-powered control mapping and built-in remediation, 6clicks helps teams move faster with less manual effort.
Step 1
Start with ready-to-use content
Leverage out-of-the-box Essential Eight maturity assessment templates from our built-in Content Library.
Step 2
Implement and test controls
Manage controls and evidence in one centralised platform. Automate control testing to identify gaps and validate control effectiveness in real time.
Step 3
Map controls with AI
Use Hailey AI to align your Essential Eight controls with PSPF, ISM, and other regulatory requirements for instant multi-framework compliance.
Step 4
Run assessments and track remediation
Conduct maturity assessments with out-of-the-box templates, automated workflows, and AI-powered responses. Launch and monitor remediation tasks in one place.
CAPABILITIES
Powerful features to support your cyber maturity journey
Streamline Essential Eight compliance and assessments with a full-stack, AI-powered GRC platform.
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Risk Management
Identify, assess, and manage enterprise-wide risks with end-to-end visibility.
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Policy and Control Management
Create or import controls, automate testing, and seamlessly link to frameworks, assets, risks, and more.
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Third-Party Risk Management
Assess vendors, partners, and suppliers, monitor associated risks, and secure your supply chain.
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Asset Management
Integrate with your enterprise systems, catalog and categorize IT assets, and link data across your compliance ecosystem.
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Issue and Incident Management
Manage the full issue and incident lifecycle with built-in registers, custom intake and reporting forms, and configurable workflows.
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Reporting and Analytics
Maintain consistent audit readiness with automated reports and centralized dashboards for board and auditor-ready insights.
WHY 6CLICKS
Designed for scalable cyber assurance
Here’s what makes 6clicks the right platform for Essential Eight alignment.
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Integrated content
1000+ official standards, regulations, and frameworks, as well as control sets, risk and issue libraries, and assessment templates, all ready to use.
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AI-powered automation
Automate control gap analysis, multi-framework mapping, and more with Hailey AI, the world’s first AI engine purpose-built for GRC.
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Enterprise-grade GRC
Native multi-entity architecture, complete cyber GRC suite, and flexible hosting to meet your operational needs.
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