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Essential Eight & Security Compliance Services That Strengthen Cyber Resilience and Business Readiness
As your end-to-end Essential Eight consulting partner, operating at Maturity Level 3 across all eight strategies ourselves, we help you define priorities, establish the right foundations, deliver secure and scalable solutions.
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Turn Security Compliance Into Business Confidence
Essential Eight & Security Compliance delivers the greatest value when it is aligned with clear business priorities, secure foundations, effective governance, and confident users. Exigo Tech helps organisations plan, implement, manage, and optimise all eight ACSC mitigation strategies – Application Control, Patch Applications, Configure Microsoft Office Macro Settings, User Application Hardening, Restrict Administrative Privileges, Patch Operating Systems, Multi-Factor Authentication, and Regular Backups, so technology investment translates into stronger performance, resilience, innovation, and measurable outcomes. We don't just help you implement the Essential Eight, Exigo Tech operates at Maturity Level 3 across all eight strategies ourselves, so you're working with a partner who has achieved the same level of security excellence we recommend for you.
Cyber Risk Reduction
Reduce exposure to common attack techniques and strengthen the organisation's ability to defend against evolving cyber threats.
Organisational Resilience
Create a stronger operational foundation that enables critical systems, applications, and services to remain protected and available.
Security Governance Maturity
Establish structured security practices, accountability, and oversight that support ongoing risk management and compliance objectives.
Workforce Security Awareness
Support secure user behaviours, stronger access controls, and better protection against threats that target employees and business processes.
Sustainable Security Improvement
Build a security framework that evolves alongside technology, business requirements, regulatory expectations, and emerging risks.
Core Offerings: Essential Eight & Security Compliance Services
Our Essential Eight & Security Compliance services help organisations move from strategy to sustained value through assessment, design, delivery, governance, adoption, and continuous optimisation.
Application Control
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Patch Applications
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Configure Microsoft Office Macro Settings
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User Application Hardening
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Restrict Administrative Privileges
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Patch Operating Systems
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Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA)
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Regular Backups
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Prevent unauthorised applications from executing by establishing approved software controls that reduce exposure to malware, ransomware, and other cyber threats.
Reduce security vulnerabilities by ensuring internet-facing and business-critical applications are identified, assessed, and updated within recommended timeframes.
Limit the risk of malicious macro execution through secure Microsoft Office configuration and controlled macro management practices.
Strengthen browsers, PDF readers, and commonly targeted applications by disabling unnecessary features and reducing exploitable attack surfaces.
Apply least-privilege principles to minimise the impact of compromised accounts and reduce opportunities for unauthorised system access.
Maintain secure operating environments by keeping Windows and other supported operating systems updated with the latest security patches.
Strengthen identity protection by requiring additional verification methods for user access to critical systems, applications, and data.
Protect business continuity through secure, monitored, and regularly tested backup and recovery capabilities that support rapid restoration when needed.
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Business Outcomes Enabled
Reduced Cyber Risk
Lower the likelihood and potential impact of cyber incidents through stronger preventative and protective controls.
Stronger Business Resilience
Improve the organisation's ability to withstand, respond to, and recover from cyber threats and operational disruptions.
Improved Governance & Compliance
Strengthen security oversight, policy alignment, and compliance readiness through measurable security controls and processes.
Greater Security Visibility
Provide leadership with clearer insight into security maturity, risk exposure, and ongoing improvement opportunities.
Confident Digital Growth
Enable transformation, innovation, and business expansion with security foundations designed to support long-term success.
Reduced Cyber Risk
Lower the likelihood and potential impact of cyber incidents through stronger preventative and protective controls.
Stronger Business Resilience
Improve the organisation's ability to withstand, respond to, and recover from cyber threats and operational disruptions.
Improved Governance & Compliance
Strengthen security oversight, policy alignment, and compliance readiness through measurable security controls and processes.
Greater Security Visibility
Provide leadership with clearer insight into security maturity, risk exposure, and ongoing improvement opportunities.
Confident Digital Growth
Enable transformation, innovation, and business expansion with security foundations designed to support long-term success.
Are You Ready to Turn Essential Eight & Security Compliance into Measurable Business Value?
Move from isolated initiatives to a secure, strategic, and outcome-led approach that connects Essential Eight & Security Compliance with your people, processes, data, and business priorities.
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Learn moreThe Essential Eight is a set of eight prioritised cybersecurity mitigation strategies developed by the Australian Signals Directorate (ASD) through the Australian Cyber Security Centre (ACSC). Designed as a baseline for Australian organisations, the eight strategies are Application Control, Patch Applications, Configure Microsoft Office Macro Settings, User Application Hardening, Restrict Administrative Privileges, Patch Operating Systems, Multi-Factor Authentication, and Regular Backups.
Yes. Exigo Tech is an Essential Eight consulting company that not only helps organisations implement the framework, but also operates at Maturity Level 3 across all eight strategies internally, meaning you're working with a partner who has achieved the same security standard we help you reach.
The Essential Eight Maturity Model defines four levels: Maturity Level 0 (not implemented), Level 1 (partly aligned, protects against basic threats), Level 2 (mostly aligned, protects against more capable adversaries), and Level 3 (fully aligned, protects against adaptive, targeted attackers). The ASD recommends all organisations aim for Maturity Level 3.
User Application Hardening is one of the eight ACSC strategies. It involves configuring web browsers and other applications, blocking Java, web ads, and unneeded browser or PDF features, and disabling legacy components, to reduce the attack surface attackers can exploit. It's one of the most commonly searched and misunderstood Essential Eight strategies, and our assessment identifies exactly where your current hardening configuration falls short.
Microsoft Intune provides configuration and device management capabilities that directly support several Essential Eight strategies, including Application Control, Patch Applications, Patch Operating Systems, and User Application Hardening. As a Microsoft Solutions Partner, Exigo Tech configures and manages Intune as part of a broader Essential Eight implementation, alongside other tooling such as Datto RMM for patch management and backup monitoring where relevant.
We begin with business objectives, current-state challenges, stakeholder needs, risk, and success measures, then shape a practical roadmap that connects Essential Eight & Security Compliance investment to targeted operational and strategic outcomes.
Click Book Your Free Security Assessment above to arrange a no-obligation review of your objectives, current environment, priority opportunities, risks, and recommended next steps.
Yes. Exigo Tech provides Essential Eight assessment, remediation, and Maturity Level 3 implementation services to organisations across Australia, including Melbourne and Sydney, combining local account management with our broader Microsoft security delivery team.
We help organisations apply access, security, data protection, governance, monitoring, and lifecycle practices that support responsible Essential Eight compliance in line with the Australian Privacy Act 1988, the ACSC's Essential Eight Maturity Model, and relevant organisational requirements. Final compliance depends on your specific environment, use cases, data, and legal obligations.
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