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How to manage your security when engaging a managed service provider   Publication

Oct 6, 2021 - Understand the actions organisations can take to manage the security risks posed by engaging and authorising network access for managed service providers.

Pro-Russia Hacktivists Conduct Opportunistic Attacks Against US and Global Critical Infrastructure   Advisory

Dec 10, 2025 - This joint Cybersecurity Advisory outlines the tactics, techniques and procedures used by pro-Russia hacktivist groups conducting unsophisticated attacks against US and global critical infrastructure, as well as recommended mitigations.

ASD’s role in cyber security: For legal practitioners   Guidance

Dec 11, 2024 - During a cyber security incident, or suspected cyber security incident, our goal is to work with impacted organisations, their legal representation, and any external vendors engaged to investigate an incident on behalf of the organisation.

Scammers impersonating police to target victims for cryptocurrency/seed wallet theft   Alert

Nov 13, 2025 - The ASD’s ACSC is aware that criminals are using Australia’s national cybercrime reporting channel and impersonating police to try to scam Australians out of funds from their cryptocurrency or seed wallets.

Cloud assessment and authorisation   Publication

Jan 18, 2024 - This publication is co-designed with industry to support the secure adoption of cloud services across government and industry.

Managed service providers: How to manage risk to customer networks   Publication

Oct 6, 2021 - There are several mitigation strategies that managed service providers can implement to protect their own networks and manage the security risks posed to their customers’ networks.

Security configuration guide: Viasat Mobile Dynamic Defense   Publication

Oct 6, 2021 - ASD has developed this guide to assist Australian’s to understand risks when deploying Viasat MDD devices and the security requirements that need to be met to allow them to handle classified data.

2022-004: ASD's ACSC Ransomware Profile – ALPHV (aka BlackCat)   Advisory

Apr 14, 2022 - ALPHV (aka BlackCat, Noberus) is a ransomware variant first observed in late 2021, used by cybercriminals to conduct ransomware attacks against multiple sectors and organisations worldwide, including Australia.

Creating and maintaining a definitive view of your operational technology architecture   Publication

Oct 28, 2025 - How organisations who deploy or operate operational technology systems should build, maintain and store their systems understanding.

Deploying AI systems securely   Publication

Apr 16, 2024 - AI security is a rapidly evolving area of research. As agencies, industry, and academia discover potential weaknesses in AI technology and techniques to exploit them, organizations will need to update their AI systems to address the changing risks, in addition to applying traditional IT best practices to AI systems.

Secure by Demand   Publication

Jan 14, 2025 - This Secure by Demand guide, authored by CISA with contributions from the following partners, describes how OT owners and operators should integrate security into their procurement process when purchasing industrial automation and control systems as well as other OT products.

Travelling with mobile devices   Publication

Mar 26, 2024 - Learn how to keep mobile devices secure when travelling. This guidance provides advice from both an individual and organisational perspective.

Multiple vulnerabilities in Jenkins products   Alert

Jan 30, 2024 - ASD’s ACSC is aware of multiple vulnerabilities impacting Jenkins products including CVE 2024-23897 (Critical) & CVE-2024-23898 (High). Organisations using Jenkins products are strongly advised to follow the mitigation advice provided by Jenkins and patch affected versions.

Update your devices to keep cybercriminals out   News

May 3, 2021 - Updating the software on electronic devices is one of the easiest and most important ways all Australians can defend against cybercriminals and be protected from online threats.

Password managers   Guidance

May 12, 2025 - Learn how to create and store passwords in a secure location for your important accounts.

Mitigation strategies for edge devices: Practitioner guidance   Publication

Feb 4, 2025 - This publication expands on Mitigation strategies for edge devices: executive guidance. It provides IT practitioners with a list of mitigation strategies for the most common types of edge devices and appliances across enterprise networks and large organisations.

Gateway security guidance package: Gateway technology guides   Publication

Jul 29, 2025 - This guidance is one part of a package of documents that forms the gateway security guidance package. When designing, procuring, operating, maintaining or disposing of a gateway, it is important to consider all the documents from the gateway security guidance package at different stages of governance, design and implementation, and not to consume this guidance in isolation.

The Commonwealth Cyber Security Posture in 2022   Reports and statistics

Dec 16, 2022 - The Commonwealth Cyber Security Posture in 2022 (the report) informs Parliament on the implementation of cybersecurity measures across the Commonwealth government, for the period January 2021 to June 2022. As of June 2022, the Commonwealth comprised 97 non-corporate Commonwealth entities (NCCEs), 71 corporate Commonwealth entities (CCEs) and 17 Commonwealth companies (CCs).

Choosing secure and verifiable technologies   Publication

Dec 5, 2024 - The Australian Signals Directorate’s Australian Cyber Security Centre (ASD’s ACSC) and international partners have provided recommendations in this guide as a roadmap for choosing secure and verifiable technologies.

Explore, analyse and correlate malware at scale with Azul   News

Feb 24, 2026 - ASD’s open‑source malware analysis tool is now available on GitHub. The Azul tool helps enhance the ability of network defenders and incident responders to understand and respond to malware.