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Free Essential 8 Audit for Small Businesses
Which Essential 8 Maturity Level Is Right for Your Business?
Safeguard your business with Techtrums’ Free Essential 8 Compliance Checker. This easy-to-use tool assesses your cybersecurity against the Australian Cyber Security Centre’s (ACSC) Essential 8 framework, helping you pinpoint the ideal maturity level for your needs.
Note: This information is general in nature and should be used alongside advice from a cybersecurity expert and a risk assessment tailored to your business, resources, and data.
What Is the Free Essential 8 Compliance Checker?
Techtrums’ Free Essential 8 Compliance Checker is a web-based tool for Australian SMEs. It assesses your cybersecurity against the ACSC’s Essential 8 strategies, including Application Control, Patch Management, and Multi-factor Authentication, identifying strengths and gaps to boost your cyber resilience.
ACSC Essential 8 Maturity Levels Explained
The Essential 8 framework offers three maturity levels, each with increasing security controls suited to your business’s risk profile and resources:
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Maturity Level 1
Perfect for small businesses with limited resources and low-risk profiles. Focuses Jaime on foundational controls like patching software, restricting administrative privileges, and enabling multi-factor authentication to fend off basic threats, such as opportunistic cybercriminals.
Example: A small local café with a basic website, POS system, and guest Wi-Fi, handling minimal customer data and operating with a few staff.
2.
Maturity Level 2
Designed for medium-sized businesses with moderate risk profiles. Builds on Level 1 with advanced controls like daily backups, application control to block unauthorised software, and regular privilege reviews to tackle more sophisticated threats, including organised cybercrime groups.
Example: A mid-sized NDIS service provider with 8–50 employees, using cloud systems to manage sensitive client data and operating across multiple devices and locations.
3.
Maturity Level 3
Tailored for large organisations or those in high-threat environments, such as critical infrastructure. Demands robust controls to detect, respond to, and recover from advanced threats, like nation-state actors or APT groups, ensuring minimal risk exposure.
Example: A large organisation such as a healthcare provider or critical infrastructure company managing highly sensitive data and requiring advanced security measures to defend against sophisticated cyber threats.
Essential 8 Assessment
In this assessment, we will be covering the following areas of your IT best practices in regards to Cyber Security.
The assessment will cover the following areas:
- Patch applications
- Patch operating systems
- Multi-factor authentication
- Restrict administrative privileges
- Application control
- Restrict Microsoft Office macros
- User application hardening
- Regular backups
Please select a survey to take:
Which Essential 8 Maturity Level is right for my business?
