Essential 8 Essentials Course
Master cybersecurity with the Essential Eight Essentials course
In just 18 hours, you’ll dive into the Australian Signals Directorate’s Essential Eight Maturity Model and discover how to apply key strategies to real-world challenges.
With practical lab-based exercises, you’ll gain the skills to boost your career prospects and help organisations stay resilient against cyber threats.
Overview
Where Rockingham
When Semester 2, 2025
How On Campus
Take your cybersecurity skills to the next level with TAFEcyber’s Essential Eight Essentials Course.
In today's complex digital landscape, protecting your organisation from cyber threats is paramount. The Essential Eight Essentials Course, developed and delivered by TAFEcyber, offers a vital deep dive into the Australian Signals Directorate's (ASD) renowned Essential Eight Maturity Model, equipping you with the knowledge and practical skills to significantly enhance your cybersecurity posture.
This comprehensive 18-hour face-to-face or virtual course goes beyond theory, providing an in-depth understanding of the Essential Eight's history, context, and purpose. You'll gain crucial insights into each mitigation strategy and learn how to apply them effectively within your own organisation. Our practical, lab-based exercises will reinforce your learning, ensuring you're ready to tackle real-world challenges.
Key topics covered in this course:
- Gain an introduction to Essential Eight. Understand the model's framework and the practice of compliance-based assessment.
- Learn how to leverage PowerShell scripting language for cybersecurity tasks.
- Explore critical Windows security policies and settings relevant to the Essential Eight.
- Learn strategies to secure your applications and systems.
- Gain insights into crucial areas of network security - Authentication, Privilege Escalation, and Active Directory Networks.
- Essential Eight assessment report requirements - learn what it takes to create a comprehensive assessment report.
This course is ideal for IT professionals, cybersecurity enthusiasts, managers, and boards who have oversight of an organisation's cyber maturity, and anyone looking to understand and implement the Essential Eight Maturity Model within their organisation.
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Semester 2, 2025
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Indicative fees and charges
The fees quoted are estimates only and are for all units in the course for students enrolling on a full-time basis. If you're a student that has successfully completed a lower-level qualification that is a prerequisite for this course, you'll only pay for the units that you need to enrol in to complete this course. Please view the full list of fee disclaimers.
Units
| National ID | Unit title |
|---|---|
| 09704 | Essential 8 Essentials Course |