Guidance and support is available to help you protect your online accounts, digital networks, assets and data.
Cybersecurity resources
The Australian Government's Australian Signals Directorate (ASD) website provides practical cybersecurity resources to help protect your small business from common cyber threats.
Find out how you can safeguard your business data, customers and reputation with the educational packs for small business.
Small business hub
Visit the ASD's small business hub to find out how to keep your business secure from common cyber threats.
Essential Eight
ASD has developed strategies to mitigate cybersecurity incidents to help organisations protect themselves against various cyberthreats.
The most effective of these mitigation strategies are the Essential Eight.
The Essential Eight has been designed to protect organisations’ internet-connected information technology networks.
ASD publish guidance on the Essential Eight maturity model and implementation. They also publish guidance on:
- cloud service security
- remote working and security for mobile devices
- operational technology
- architecture
- secure-by-design technology
- secure outsourcing and procurement
- Questions to ask your managed service provider.
Information Security Manual (ISM)
The ISM sets out cybersecurity principles to provide strategic guidance on how your organisation can protect against cyber threats.
These cybersecurity principles are grouped into 5 functions.
- Govern: Develop a strong cybersecurity culture.
- Identify: Identify assets and associated security risks.
- Protect: Implement controls to manage security risks.
- Detect: Detect and analyse cybersecurity events to identify cyber security incidents.
- Respond: Respond to and recover from cybersecurity incidents.
The ISM is intended for:
- chief information security officers
- chief information officers
- cybersecurity professionals
- information technology managers.
Resilience and recovery
The below documents and web pages from ASD are recommended reading:
Information provided on this site will refer to advice published by the Australian Signals Directorate (ASD) and their Australian Cyber Security Centre service as the lead Australian Government authority for technical advice, guidance and support.
You can visit the ASD’s website at cyber.gov.au and read more about their services.