Cybercriminals continue to target critical infrastructure for substantial financial gain while also strategically attacking third-party vendors. And because, like any enterprise, they aim to maximize the returns on their investments in these attacks, their approach is both aggressive and persistent. To effectively defend themselves from these campaigns, businesses need to proactively manage their cyber risk to reduce the implications of a cyberattack, including revenue loss, loss of intellectual property, brand erosion, reputation damage, upstream and downstream victims, and even regulatory fines and penalties.
The Essential Eight framework, developed by the Australian Cyber Security Centre (ACSC), is a set of strategies explicitly designed to help organizations protect their IT networks against today’s relentless cyberthreats […]