Essential Eight Consulting

Strengthen Your Cyber Security with the Essential Eight

Bridged Group provides Essential Eight consulting for Melbourne businesses, helping you assess your current cyber security maturity, identify gaps and strengthen the controls protecting your organisation. We provide practical guidance to help align your IT environment with the Essential Eight and build a stronger security posture.

The Essential Eight consists of eight mitigation strategies developed by the Australian Signals Directorate to help organisations protect their internet-connected IT environments against cyber threats.

Essential Eight Assessment

Assess your existing security controls against the Essential Eight maturity model and identify areas requiring improvement.

Gap Analysis

Identify weaknesses across your environment and understand the changes required to improve your Essential Eight maturity.

Implementation & Remediation

Implement practical security improvements across your systems, applications, identities and administrative controls.

Ongoing Security Improvement

Continually review and strengthen your security controls as your technology environment and cyber risks evolve.

Essential Eight Consulting & Implementation

Our Essential Eight consulting services help Melbourne organisations understand their current position and establish a practical pathway towards stronger cyber security.

Support can cover:

Application control – Help control which applications can execute within your environment.
Patch applications – Strengthen processes for keeping applications up to date and addressing known vulnerabilities.
Microsoft Office macro restrictions – Reduce risk associated with potentially malicious macros.
User application hardening – Strengthen the configuration of browsers and other user-facing applications.
Restrict administrative privileges – Reduce unnecessary privileged access across your IT environment.
Patch operating systems – Improve operating system patching and vulnerability management processes.
Multi-factor authentication – Strengthen identity and access security through appropriate MFA controls.
Regular backups – Review backup controls to help protect important business data and support recovery.

Whether you’re beginning your Essential Eight journey or looking to improve your existing maturity level, Bridged Group can help assess your environment, prioritise remediation and implement security improvements that align with your organisation’s requirements.

Ready to strengthen your business with the Essential Eight?