ASD Essential Eight

Harden with the Essential Eight.

The Essential Eight is Australia's baseline of mitigation strategies. Vallorix helps you evidence your maturity.

app.vallorix.ai — Essential Eight
92%
Audit-ready
Essential Eight · continuous evidence
Access controls PASS
Encryption in transit PASS
Change management 1 FIX
Also automates SOC 2ISO 27001HIPAAGDPR+ 16 more
What is Essential Eight?

Australia's eight mitigation strategies

The Australian Signals Directorate's Essential Eight is a prioritized set of eight mitigation strategies — from patching and application control to MFA and backups — with maturity levels organizations work up.

Continuous evidence

Get Essential Eight-ready — continuously

Connect your cloud, code, identity and device systems, and Vallorix gathers the exact evidence Essential Eight needs — automatically, with a live readiness score. No screenshots, no spreadsheets.

  • Automated checks across your stack
  • Live readiness % for Essential Eight
  • Evidence stored inside your boundary
See it in a demo →
app.vallorix.ai — Essential Eight
92%
Audit-ready
Essential Eight · continuous evidence
Access controls PASS
Encryption in transit PASS
Change management 1 FIX
app.vallorix.ai — Monitoring
Evidence collected (30 days)All current
Cloud configuration · 41 checks PASS
Access reviews · quarterly ON TRACK
Always current

Continuous monitoring, not a yearly scramble

Controls are re-tested automatically. When something drifts you know immediately — and your auditor gets a live, always-current evidence room instead of a year-end fire drill.

  • Real-time drift alerts
  • Automated evidence renewal
  • One control, mapped across frameworks
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Fix, don't just flag

Policies, controls & gap analysis

Every gap comes with a plain-English explanation and the exact remediation, re-tested until it passes. Vallorix drafts the policy set and control narratives mapped to Essential Eight, ready for your auditor.

  • Auto-drafted policies & narratives
  • Plain-English remediation
  • Personnel, access & vendor risk
See it in a demo →
app.vallorix.ai — Gap analysis
Change-management evidence missing · 2 repos FIX
→ Draft policy generated. Assign an approver to auto-remediate.
Access review overdue · Finance FIX
MFA enforced · all users PASS
One platform, every framework

Your Essential Eight evidence maps across frameworks

Collect shared evidence once and apply it everywhere. Typical shared-evidence overlap — varies by scope.

ISO 27001
50%
CPS 234
45%
Cyber Essentials
55%
SOC 2
30%
Everything you need

Built for Essential Eight, and the frameworks next to it

Self-hosted by design

Runs on your own infrastructure — evidence never leaves your boundary.

Continuous evidence

Checks run daily across your stack, so you're always audit-ready.

Data residency

Keep data in the region your regulators require.

Policies & controls

Auto-drafted policy set and control narratives, auditor-mapped.

Auditor evidence room

Give your auditor a live, always-current view.

Cross-framework mapping

Collect shared evidence once, apply it everywhere.

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Essential Eight resources

FAQ

Essential Eight questions

What are the Essential Eight?+
Eight prioritized controls the ASD recommends to mitigate cyber threats, measured across maturity levels.
Does Vallorix track maturity?+
Yes — it maps the eight strategies to controls and evidences your current maturity.
Does it overlap with ISO 27001?+
Yes; Vallorix reuses shared evidence across both.

Get Essential Eight-ready — on your terms.

Continuous evidence, auditor-ready reports, and controls that stay in your boundary.

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