Australias Department of Health is pushing for the implementation of privileged access management (PAM) for the entire department. The Essential 8 is seen as de-facto rules when it comes to Australia’s move to harden its government’s cybersecurity status. The essential 8 are the following, as quoted from the Request for Tender:Implement application whitelisting, so only selected software applications can run. Disable untrusted Microsoft Office macros, because theyre increasingly being used to enable the download of malware.”]