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Streamline Essential Eight assessment and get continuous protection through CyberSmart Active Protect threat-detection software
What is Essential Eight?
The Essential Eight is an Australian Cybersecurity Centre-developed cybersecurity framework, proven to mitigate online threats and improve organisations’ defences. It focuses on eight key controls that are crucial for preventing cyberattacks.
Why do you need Essential Eight?
Essential Eight is a compliance requirement for some industries, such as financial services, defence and healthcare. However, all businesses can benefit from completing the assessment which helps you attain and maintain a government-approved standard of cybersecurity, reducing cyber risk.
Cybercrime is on the rise in Australia, with 94,000 reports made to law enforcement in 2023 (or one every 6 minutes!). Can your business afford to be unprepared?
CyberSmart Active Protect
Benefits of CyberSmart Active Protect
Easy-to-use digital portal
Our proprietary Essential Eight questionnaire offers easy-to-understand questions, useful in-platform guidance, and unlimited support. Essential Eight assessment couldn’t be easier.
Simplified progression framework
Our simple, step-by-step progression framework helps you establish what you need to do and when to do it. So you can move through the Essential Eight maturity levels at your own pace.
365-day compliance
Stay safe beyond assessment day, with endpoint monitoring, cyber awareness training and policy management to ensure continuous compliance and year-round protection from Active Protect.
Unlimited support
All the support you need to get started and scale up your security through the Essential Eight maturity levels.
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Partner with CyberSmart and HAT Distribution
CyberSmart have partnered with HAT Distribution, a value-added technology distributor in Australia committed to bridging the gap between vendors and channel partners across the ANZ region. Founded with the principles of simplicity, expertise and value-add solution selling, HAT’s services are underpinned by continuous improvement, creative solutions and the innovative use of business systems and technology – all geared towards delivering real commercial success for customers.
Join our Partner Programme and get all the software, expert support, and resources you’ll need to be the partner your clients can’t live without. Expand your portfolio, extend your reach through new solutions and win more business effortlessly, with CyberSmart.
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Frequently asked questions
- Protection from the most common threats
- Better control over your operations
- Reduced risk of human error
- Greater insight into how applications, operating systems and devices are used
- The ability to bid for government tenders and contracts
- A competitive advantage over your rivals
- Prove to partners and customers that you take cybersecurity and data protection seriously
The 8 technical controls are:
- Application whitelisting
- Patching Applications
- Patching Operating Systems
- Configuring Microsoft Office macro settings
- User application hardening
- Restricting Administrative Privileges
- Multi-factor authentication
- Daily backups
Essential Eight has three maturity levels, each one requiring you to implement further cybersecurity controls. Our questionnaire includes the three maturity models as tabs within the platform.
As you complete each question set, it will turn green, signifying you’re ready to move to the next level. Our progression bar displays all of the questions and includes a handy percentage so you’ll always know how close your business is to full security maturity.CyberSmart Active Protect is a powerful on-device agent that delivers comprehensive endpoint monitoring, risk management, policy enforcement, and cybersecurity awareness training.
Active Protect regularly monitors and reports the status of a device by running through a series of security controls, identifying any vulnerabilities in an easy-to-understand traffic light system.
Active Protect is plug-and-play within your existing IT setup. It provides an intuitive organisation dashboard that can be easily utilised by non-technical personnel throughout your company. This simplicity empowers your non-expert workforce to actively participate in protecting your business.