Foundations for modern defensible architecture
Build secure and more resilient systems using modern defensible architecture. Apply key design foundations to help prevent, detect, and respond to cyber threats.
Critical processes and services are the core processes and services needed to deliver an organisation’s primary outcomes. Compromise or loss can directly prevent the organisation from delivering critical outcomes or services.
Malicious actors targeting this domain typically pursue disruption (rendering services unavailable through ransomware or destructive attacks) or theft (exfiltration of high-value data for intelligence, competitive advantage or extortion). As these assets represent the highest-value targets, they attract the most capable and deliberate malicious actor activity.
The guidance within the ASD Essentials is organised into Domains, Principles and Actions.
These resources provide additional guidance to support the implementation of the Essentials for enterprise IT. They provide implementation guidance for achieving the indicators of good practice associated with each Action.
ASD’s Information security manual (ISM) also provides a catalogue of security controls that can be used to achieve the implementation of each Principle and Action.