The ACSC Essential Eight is a set of strategies to mitigate cybersecurity incidents, created by the Australian Cyber Security Centre. These strategies are designed to help organizations protect their systems against a wide range of cyber threats. Compliance with the ACSC Essential Eight is crucial for organizations looking to strengthen their cybersecurity posture and safeguard sensitive information. The framework includes essential measures such as application whitelisting, patching applications, user application hardening, restricting administrative privileges, patching operating systems, multi-factor authentication, and daily backups.

This CentOS 7 virtual machine image is hardened with over 500+ security controls built-in to ensure the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of sensitive data. With this preconfigured CentOS 7 image, companies can easily deploy an ACSC Essential Eight-compliant environment, reducing the time and resources required for security implementation. Foundation Security's image is regularly updated to keep up with the latest security threats and compliance regulations, providing customers with peace of mind that their data is well protected. This offering is ideal for organizations that need a secure and compliant environment to protect against cyber threats.

Foundation Security has a team of industry experts with deep knowledge of security and compliance regulations. This ensures that their virtual machine image is well-designed and implemented with the highest level of security standards. Additionally, their experienced team provides ongoing support to ensure their customers' security needs are met. As proud AWS Partners, Foundation Security's images are used by several Fortune 500 companies, demonstrating the reliability and trustworthiness of their solutions.