Building on your Essential Eight Program to get to Zero Trust

Like many organisations, government and public sector organisations face intensifying cyber threats alongside the challenges of widespread adoption of cloud and mobile technologies. A Zero Trust architecture, built on identity as a foundation, can help public sector organisations keep up with shifting workforce demands and meet increasingly stringent data privacy and security compliance requirements.

Centralise and secure access management

Unify access across your cloud and on-prem apps for all users, ensuring only the right people have access to the right tools and resources they need.

Hyper automate the joiner, mover, leaver process

Prevent dormant account hacks by automatically deactivating old user accounts and eliminate the risk of human error when provisioning users.

Stop cyber attacks in their tracks

Reduce the risk of data breaches through credential theft by removing the reliance on traditional usernames and passwords and securely verifying every login attempt.

Simplify data privacy and compliance

Deliver one set of strict data privacy and compliance standards across the entire network and automatically generate detailed auditing reports.

Add additional security layers when needed

Create contextual access policies that assess risk factors, such as device, network, location, travel, IP, and other contexts, at each step of the authentication process.

How to make your Essential Eight program a springboard to Zero Trust

Explore how identity can help public sector authorities quickly comply with Essential Eight's Multi-Factor Authentication requirement while supporting the transition to a more secure and sustainable Zero Trust future.

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78% of Commonwealth agencies have implemented at least one security solution that maps to the modern Zero Trust strategy.

78%

Commonwealth agencies continue to forge ahead because the national ideas of Zero Trust are critical to securing today's perimeter-less landscape.

The ACSC Essential Eight: Delivering MFA for Australians

Read step-by-step advice on how to meet the ACSC Essential Eight Multi-Factor Authentication requirement and reveal how Okta can help you achieve compliance.

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An update to the nation’s Essential Eight Maturity Model raises the bar on security and establishes scenarios that demand a minimum level of Multi-Factor Authentication maturity. Find out where you sit on the maturity model and whether you meet Maturity Level 1, the minimum target state that agencies should strive for.

Australia and the Essential Eight Maturity Model

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IRAP Assessment

Okta is IRAP assessed

The IRAP assessment recognises that we can ensure safe and secure data flows and storage with our cloud identity platform.

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2022 Public Sector Identity Index (ANZ)

Discover how shifting to identity-first helps governments and the public sector improve existing IT services while launching new ones faster and more securely.

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Mitigating the Cyber Threat

As remote working and cloud technologies proliferate, sensitive data is everywhere, leaving organisations vulnerable to cyber attacks; we look at strategies for mitigating the risk.

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Why Trust is More Important than Ever

The Okta Digital Trust Index found that organisations need to do more to improve confidence in how data is shared and used.

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Webinar

Identity Management for Local Government

Watch our on-demand webinar as we explore how leveraging the power of modern, intelligent, flexible and scalable IAM can help accelerate the digital transformation and provide proper foundations for local governments across Australia.

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