The Australian Cyber Security Centre (ACSC) has strengthened its recommendations for application whitelisting, with an updated version of its ‘Essential Eight’ maturity model pushing for organisations to implement whitelisting on all servers.
Web browsers on Australian government workstations should, by default, be configured to block online ads, Adobe Flash and Java.
The government's Australian Cyber Security Centre (ACSC) has released a guide intended to help organisations lock down network assets, such as application servers and domain controllers, by protecting accounts that have admin privileges.
The Australian Signals Directorate has released a collection of four new hardening guides designed to help government agencies secure their IT environments.