ASD to replace Essential Eight with outcomes-based Essentials series, pushing continuous security posture evidence
The Australian Signals Directorate (ASD) announced in June 2026 that it will replace the Essential Eight with an outcomes-based Essentials series. The series covers enterprise IT first, then cloud, OT and possibly agentic AI. This is a policy and compliance change, not a threat incident. It moves organizations from periodic, point-in-time…