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/resources-business-and-government/maintaining-devices-and-systems/system-hardening-and-administration/system-monitoring/best-practices-event-logging-threat-detection

Best practices for event logging and threat detection   Publication

Aug 22, 2024 - This publication defines a baseline for event logging best practices to mitigate cyberthreats.

Small & medium businesses
Organisations & Critical Infrastructure
Government
/about-us/view-all-content/news-and-media/best-practices-event-logging-and-threat-detection

Best practices for event logging and threat detection   News

Aug 22, 2024 - Today we have released new event logging guidance, alongside our international partners, that defines the baseline for logging best practices to mitigate malicious cyber threats.

Small & medium businesses
Organisations & Critical Infrastructure
Government
/resources-business-and-government/maintaining-devices-and-systems/critical-infrastructure/cybersecurity-best-practices-smart-cities

Cybersecurity Best Practices for Smart Cities   Publication

Apr 20, 2023 - This guidance is the result of a collaborative effort from the United States Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), the United States National Security Agency (NSA), the United States Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), the United Kingdom National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC-UK), the Australian Signals Directorate’s Australian Cyber Security Centre (ASD’s ACSC), the Canadian Centre for Cyber Security (CCCS), and the New Zealand National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC-NZ).

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/about-us/news/joint-guide-cybersecurity-best-practices-smart-cities

Joint guide for cybersecurity best practices for Smart Cities   News

Apr 20, 2023 - This guide provides three recommendations to help communities strengthen their cyber posture.

Small & medium businesses
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/resources-business-and-government/governance-and-user-education/practical-cybersecurity-tips-business-leaders

Practical cybersecurity tips for business leaders   Publication

Jan 17, 2024 - Business leaders can be appealing targets for malicious actors due to the sensitive information they can access, the important people they interact with and the influence they hold. This publication includes a checklist of practical tips business leaders can implement to improve their cybersecurity. The checklist is followed by a brief explanation of each tip and why it is recommended.

Small & medium businesses
Organisations & Critical Infrastructure
/about-us/view-all-content/news-and-media/practical-cyber-security-tips-business-leaders

Practical cyber security tips for business leaders   News

Jan 17, 2024 - Business leaders are at higher risk of a cyber incident due to the information they have access to, the people they interact with and the influence they have.

Small & medium businesses
Organisations & Critical Infrastructure
/about-us/view-all-content/reports-and-statistics/cyber-security-research-report

Cybersecurity Research Report   Reports and statistics

Dec 15, 2020 - The Australian Signals Directorate’s Australian Cyber Security Centre (ASD’s ACSC) commissioned exploratory research to better understand audience awareness of cybersecurity threats and practices.

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/resources-business-and-government/maintaining-devices-and-systems/cloud-security-guidance/asds-blueprint-secure-cloud

ASD's Blueprint for Secure Cloud   Publication

Feb 21, 2024 - The Blueprint provides better practice guidance, configuration guides and templates covering risk management, architecture and standard operating procedures developed as per the controls in ASD’s Information security manual (ISM).

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/resources-business-and-government/maintaining-devices-and-systems/outsourcing-and-procurement/managed-services/questions-ask-managed-service-providers

Questions to ask managed service providers   Publication

Oct 6, 2021 - Asking the right questions to managed service providers can help organisations better understand the cybersecurity of their systems and the services they provide.

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/resources-business-and-government/maintaining-devices-and-systems/outsourcing-and-procurement/cyber-supply-chains/choosing-secure-and-verifiable-technologies-executive-guidance

Choosing secure and verifiable technologies: Executive guidance   Publication

Dec 5, 2024 - This guide supports senior leaders to enable their organisations to understand their threat environment and make better-informed assessments and decisions to procure secure technologies.

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Passphrases  

Protect your accounts from cybercriminals with a secure password or passphrase.

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/protect-yourself/resources-protect-yourself/personal-cyber-security-guides/seniors-guide

How to use the internet securely: A guide for seniors   Guidance

Oct 1, 2021 - Some basic cyber security practices that you can use to protect yourself when accessing the internet.

Individuals & families
/about-us/view-all-content/alerts-and-advisories/enhanced-visibility-and-hardening-guidance-communications-infrastructure

Enhanced visibility and hardening guidance for communications infrastructure   Advisory

Dec 4, 2024 - This guide provides network engineers and defenders of communications infrastructure with best practices to strengthen their visibility and harden their network devices against successful exploitation carried out by PRC-affiliated and other malicious cyber actors.

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/resources-business-and-government/governance-and-user-education/artificial-intelligence/strengthening-multimedia-integrity-in-the-generative-ai-era

Content Credentials: Strengthening Multimedia Integrity in the Generative AI Era   Publication

Jan 30, 2025 - This cybersecurity information sheet discusses how Content Credentials (especially Durable ones) can be valuable to protect the provenance of media, raises awareness of the state of this solution, provides recommended practices to ensure the preservation of provenance, and discusses the importance of widespread adoption across the information ecosystem.

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/resources-business-and-government/maintaining-devices-and-systems/system-hardening-and-administration/network-hardening/implementing-network-segmentation-and-segregation

Implementing network segmentation and segregation   Publication

Oct 6, 2021 - Learn about practical strategies to make it harder for malicious actors to access sensitive data. This guidance is for those responsible for an organisation’s network architecture and design.

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/protect-yourself/securing-your-accounts/passphrases/creating-strong-passphrases

Creating Strong Passphrases   Guidance

Oct 6, 2021 - The longer your passphrase, the better. As adversaries can crack a short password with very little effort or time, you can increase the time and effort it takes by using a passphrase instead.

Individuals & families
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/resources-business-and-government/maintaining-devices-and-systems/system-hardening-and-administration/email-hardening/how-combat-fake-emails

How to combat fake emails   Publication

Oct 6, 2021 - Organisations can reduce the likelihood of their domains being used to support fake emails by implementing Sender Policy Framework (SPF) and Domain-based Message Authentication, Reporting and Conformance (DMARC) records in their Domain Name System (DNS) configuration. Using DMARC with DomainKeys Identified Mail (DKIM) to sign emails provides further safety against fake emails. Likewise, organisations can better protect their users against fake emails by ensuring their email systems use and apply SPF, DKIM and DMARC policies on inbound email.

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/resources-business-and-government/assessment-and-evaluation-programs/australian-information-security-evaluation-program

Australian Information Security Evaluation Program (AISEP)   Program page

Jul 2, 2025 - The Australian Information Security Evaluation Program (AISEP) evaluates and certifies products to provide a level of assurance in its security functionality in order to protect systems and data against cyberthreats. These evaluation activities are certified by the Australian Certification Authority (ACA).

Organisations & Critical Infrastructure
Government
/new-asds-acsc-guidance-released-help-australians-avoid-risks-related-social-media-and-messaging-applications

New ASD’s ACSC guidance released to help Australians avoid risks related to social media and messaging applications   News

Jul 14, 2022 - The Australian Signals Directorate’s Australian Cyber Security Centre (ASD’s ACSC) has today released updated guidance to help all Australians better understand how social media and messaging apps can pose a risk to the security and privacy of individuals and organisations.

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/resources-business-and-government/maintaining-devices-and-systems/system-hardening-and-administration/gateway-hardening/gateway-security-guidance-package-gateway-operations-management

Gateway security guidance package: Gateway operations and management   Publication

Jul 29, 2022 - This guidance is one part of a package of documents that forms the Australian Signals Directorate (ASD)’s Gateway security guidance package written for audiences responsible for the operation and management of gateways.

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/about-us/view-all-content/news/new-joint-advice-on-artificial-intelligence-data-security

New joint advice on artificial intelligence data security   News

May 23, 2025 - Learn about significant data security risks and best practices for securing data throughout the artificial intelligence (AI) system lifecycle.

Organisations & Critical Infrastructure
Government
/about-us/view-all-content/news-and-media/seeking-industry-feedback-on-new-asd-foundations-for-secure-by-design

Seeking industry feedback on new ASD Foundations for Secure-by-Design   News

Nov 2, 2023 - Have your say on how Secure-by-Design practices should look.

Small & medium businesses
Organisations & Critical Infrastructure
/about-us/view-all-content/news-and-media/new-translated-cyber-security-guides

Translated cyber security guides   News

Nov 3, 2023 - We have released 5 of our popular cyber security guides in more than 20 languages.

Individuals & families
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/resources-business-and-government/governance-and-user-education/artificial-intelligence/ai-data-security

AI Data Security   Publication

May 23, 2025 - This publication provides essential data security guidance for organisations that develop and/or use AI systems, including businesses, government and critical infrastructure. It highlights the importance of data security in ensuring the accuracy and integrity of AI outcomes, and presents an in-depth examination of 3 areas of data security risks in AI systems: data supply chain, maliciously modified (poisoned) data, and data drift.

Organisations & Critical Infrastructure
Government
/resources-business-and-government/essential-cybersecurity/ism/cybersecurity-guidelines

Cybersecurity guidelines  

Jun 13, 2024 - Practical guidance on how an organisation can protect their information technology and operational technology systems, applications and data from cyberthreats.

Organisations & Critical Infrastructure
Government
/smallbusiness/business-continuity-in-a-box

Business Continuity in a Box   Guidance

Aug 21, 2024 - Business Continuity in a Box assists organisations to swiftly and securely stand up critical business functions during or following a cybersecurity incident that has affected the availability or trust of existing systems.

Small & medium businesses
/about-us/view-all-content/news-and-media/new-secure-design-publication-released-collaboration-international-partners

New Secure-by-Design publication released in collaboration with international partners   News

May 15, 2024 - Today, the Australian Signals Directorate has released a new Secure-by-Design advisory, Choosing Secure and Verifiable Technologies, developed and co-sealed with our Five Eyes partners.

Small & medium businesses
Organisations & Critical Infrastructure
/resources-business-and-government/governance-and-user-education/secure-by-design/secure-design-foundations

Secure by Design foundations   Publication

Jul 30, 2024 - ASD’s ACSC's Secure by Design foundations represent a first step in a new approach to assist technology manufacturers and customers to adopt Secure by Design. While the foundations are primarily designed to foster discussion within technology manufacturers on how to best approach Secure by Design, they contain relevant information and actions for technology customers.

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/about-us/view-all-content/news/updates-to-asds-blueprint-for-secure-cloud

Updates to ASD’s Blueprint for Secure Cloud   News

Mar 18, 2025 - We have updated the Blueprint to reflect recent changes to Microsoft Purview.

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/resources-business-and-government/exercise-in-a-box

Exercise in a Box  

Nov 17, 2022 - This service provides an all-in-one platform that organisations can use to assess and improve their cybersecurity practices, in a controlled environment, and as many times as they want.

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