The Essential Eight

• Patch applications
• Patch operating systems
• Multi-factor authentication
• Restrict administrative privileges
• Application control
• Restrict Microsoft Office macros
• User application hardening
• Regular backups

For more information about Essential Eight Model, please visit here.

• Other than that, you also need :
• Information security manual
• Strategies to mitigate cybersecurity incidents
• Strategies to mitigate cybersecurity incidents:Mitigation details

Victoria's Cyber Strategy

Our five-year strategy sets the goverment's vision for creating a cyber-safe Victoria. please visit here.

Victorian Protective Data Security Standards V2.0

The Victorian Protective Data Security Standards(VPDSS) established 12 high level mandatory requirements to protect public sector information across all security area including governance, information, personnel, Information Communications Technology(ICT) and physical security. please visit here.

• OWASP API Security Top 10 - 2023
• OWASP Top10 for LLM Apps. 2025

STORIES & INSIGHTS

• 08/02/2026 - CSF 2.0 Quick Start Guides.
• 27/01/2026 - Privacy is about angency, not secrecy: Privacy isn't about hidding, it's about control, knowing what data is collected, why and under what constraints,when individuals lose agency over that process, privacy becomes theoretical.
• 14/01/2026 - Toothache is killing me!
• 07/01/2026 - CrowdStrike to Acquire SGNL to Transform Identity Security for the AI Era - NHIs and Agents privilege control has been in sight.
• 01/01/2026 - Happy New Year!