# Unified compliance dashboard for Essential Eight compliance

Stop managing Essential Eight compliance as a manual, point-in-time exercise. Gain continuous visibility into your Essential Eight maturity through a unified compliance dashboard, identify improvement opportunities, and strengthen cyber resilience in line with the Australian Cyber Security Centre (ACSC) Essential Eight framework.

## Gain insight into your compliance to the Essential Eight maturity model in one place

### Essential Eight overview

![Essential Eight maturity level compliance dashboard](https://cdn.manageengine.com/sites/meweb/images/analytics-plus/landing-page/meap-essential-eight-dash1.svg)

Track your organization's Essential Eight maturity levels through centralized dashboards that visualize progress across mitigation strategies, highlight areas requiring improvement, and provide a clear view of your overall security maturity.

### Patch applications

![Patch applications compliance dashboard](https://cdn.manageengine.com/sites/meweb/images/analytics-plus/landing-page/meap-essential-eight-dash2.svg)

Monitor application vulnerabilities, patch compliance, deployment trends, and remediation progress to identify high-risk software and prioritize critical updates.

### Patch operating systems

![Patch operating systems compliance dashboard](https://cdn.manageengine.com/sites/meweb/images/analytics-plus/landing-page/meap-essential-eight-dash3.svg)

Track operating system patch status, vulnerability exposure, remediation timelines, and compliance trends to reduce security risks across managed devices.

### MFA

![MFA compliance dashboard](https://cdn.manageengine.com/sites/meweb/images/analytics-plus/landing-page/meap-essential-eight-dash4.svg)

Analyze authentication activity, MFA adoption, login trends, failed authentication attempts, and identity risks to evaluate the effectiveness of MFA controls.

### Restrict administrative privileges

![Restrict administrative privileges compliance dashboard](https://cdn.manageengine.com/sites/meweb/images/analytics-plus/landing-page/meap-essential-eight-dash5.svg)

Visualize privileged account activity, permission changes, authentication patterns, and dormant privileged accounts to strengthen access governance.

### Application control

![Application control compliance dashboard](https://cdn.manageengine.com/sites/meweb/images/analytics-plus/landing-page/meap-essential-eight-dash6.svg)

Track approved and unauthorized applications, software inventory, application usage, and policy compliance to improve visibility into application control measures.

### Configure Microsoft Office macro settings

![Configure Microsoft Office macro settings compliance dashboard](https://cdn.manageengine.com/sites/meweb/images/analytics-plus/landing-page/meap-essential-eight-dash7.svg)

Monitor macro policy compliance, configuration changes, endpoint settings, and policy adoption trends to identify deviations from secure configurations.

### User application hardening

![User application hardening compliance dashboard](https://cdn.manageengine.com/sites/meweb/images/analytics-plus/landing-page/meap-essential-eight-dash8.svg)

Analyze browser configurations, application security settings, endpoint compliance, and configuration drift to measure application hardening effectiveness.

### Regular backups

![Regular backups compliance dashboard](https://cdn.manageengine.com/sites/meweb/images/analytics-plus/landing-page/meap-essential-eight-dash9.svg)

Monitor backup success rates, coverage, failures, recovery trends, and infrastructure health to assess backup reliability and operational resilience.

## Why choose Analytics Plus for Essential Eight compliance

### Gain visibility into your Essential Eight maturity

Unify security and operational data into interactive compliance dashboards that provide a comprehensive view of your Essential Eight maturity and the initiatives shaping your security posture.

### Understand what's influencing your Essential Eight maturity

Correlate vulnerabilities, patch compliance, authentication activity, configuration changes, and endpoint health to uncover the factors affecting your security posture.

### Accelerate maturity improvements with contextual AI

Ask questions in natural language to uncover hidden trends, understand changing maturity patterns, and receive contextual recommendations that guide your next remediation actions.

### Spot anomalies early across your Essential Eight controls

Automatically identify unusual patterns across the security controls supporting your Essential Eight maturity, helping you investigate emerging risks before they become recurring security gaps.

### Prepare ahead for Essential Eight maturity assessments

Use predictive analytics to forecast remediation progress and security trends, helping your organization continuously improve Essential Eight compliance and stay prepared for future maturity assessments.

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## Ready to strengthen your Essential Eight maturity?

Graduate from fragmented reporting and monitoring to effortlessly understand your security program, prioritize improvements, and continuously strengthen cyber resilience.

## Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

### How does Analytics Plus support Essential Eight compliance?

Analytics Plus consolidates security and operational data into a unified compliance dashboard that provides continuous visibility into your Essential Eight maturity. It lets you analyze trends across the eight mitigation strategies and identify opportunities to strengthen cyber resilience.

### What is the Essential Eight maturity model?

The Essential Eight maturity model, developed by the Australian Cyber Security Centre (ACSC) as part of the Australian Signals Directorate (ASD) Essential Eight framework, helps organizations evaluate how effectively they have implemented the eight mitigation strategies. Organizations progress through increasing maturity levels to improve their resilience against common cyber threats.

### How does Analytics Plus help improve Essential Eight maturity?

Analytics Plus helps your organization move beyond manual, point-in-time Essential Eight assessments with continuous compliance monitoring through unified compliance dashboards. It provides complete visibility into your Essential Eight maturity, detects anomalies, and delivers contextual remediation strategies that help your teams identify improvement opportunities, strengthen cyber resilience, and avoid last-minute scrambles.

### What insights can Analytics Plus provide for Essential Eight assessments?

Analytics Plus helps you analyze patch compliance, vulnerability trends, privileged access activity, authentication patterns, configuration changes, endpoint health, backup performance, and other security metrics through interactive compliance dashboards and AI-powered decision intelligence.

### Can Analytics Plus integrate with my existing security tools?

Yes. Analytics Plus integrates with ManageEngine products and a wide range of third-party endpoint, identity, vulnerability management, cloud, ITSM, and security solutions. It consolidates Essential Eight data into unified dashboards, providing visibility into security trends, maturity progress, and improvement opportunities.