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Align or Achieve?
Aligning your security practice with a standard like the Essential Eight involves making sure your business adheres to the many component parts of the standard.
It may suit your business to complete the work of aligning to the standard without an external audit, or you might decide it is important to go a step further and engage an auditor to provide external assurance of your alignment to the standard. Either way, you'll need a clear plan to identify and implement all that's required.
Where does Swise fit?
Swise Security Projects are how teams manage their the Essential Eight alignment tasks.
Swise security experts have mapped out exactly what's involved, task by task, in aligning with the Essential Eight and Swise Projects present this in the form of a collaborative task board packed with templates, tips and helpful advice.
Swise is great for teams who want to manage their security journey alone, or with support from external security experts and auditors.
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