Here is the honest situation. The Essential Eight are the eight highest-rated ASD strategies, but the Australian Signals Directorate publishes 37 in total, rated by effectiveness. Organizations that stop at the Essential Eight leave the next tier of defence on the table: application and email hardening, network segmentation, monitoring and insider-threat controls. Turning the full list into controls, evidence and a sequence of work is left to you, and reading the ratings and mapping each strategy takes time.
This Kit removes the interpretation. It is all 37 ASD strategies as adopt-ready controls you personalize in a weekend, each with its effectiveness rating and the evidence an assessor examines.
What you get, the moment you buy
Grounded in the ASD Strategies to Mitigate Cyber Security Incidents, across the five categories, with the Essential, Excellent, Very Good, Good and Limited effectiveness ratings preserved and the Essential Eight flagged. Editable Word and Excel files.
What one control looks like
This is ASD-1, Application control, one of the Essential Eight and the highest-rated strategy. All 37 are built to this depth.
Why this is not another template pack
- The evidence is the point. A ranked list is not a program. This tells you exactly what an assessor examines and the shortfall organizations show, for every strategy. That is what actually raises your posture.
- The full 37, not just eight. You get the Essential Eight plus the next tier of defence, sequenced by ASD's own effectiveness ratings.
- Built on a mapped compliance corpus, not one person's opinion, from a graph of thousands of controls across standards.
- It compounds. The strategies align with the Essential Eight, the NIST CSF and ISO 27001, so this work reinforces your wider security program.
Who buys this
Australian government suppliers and agencies going beyond the Essential Eight, managed service providers hardening client environments, and security leads who own the posture. Whether it is a first uplift or a maturity push, you save weeks and walk in with the strategies and evidence structured.
Common questions
Is it really editable? Yes. Word and Excel files you own and adapt. No portal, no subscription.
How does this relate to the Essential Eight? The Essential Eight are the eight highest-rated of these 37 strategies. This Kit includes them, flagged, plus the other 29 for a fuller posture.
Are these mandatory? They are ASD recommendations. Australian government entities are expected to meet the Essential Eight; the full 37 lift you beyond that baseline.
Does it show effectiveness? Yes. Each strategy carries its ASD effectiveness rating, so you sequence the highest-value work first.
What if it is not for me? A 30-day money-back guarantee.
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