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Frameworks

The frameworks secsip_ watches — current version, what changed, and what it means for you. No homework required.

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The map How it all fits together two families · one tape measure

Family 01 — guidance

How to be secure

Best practice from the ACSC — ASD’s cyber-security arm. It writes the technical content; Home Affairs sets the top-level policy.

federal govt · mandatory everyone else · voluntary, but wise

PSPFthe policy umbrella · Home Affairs

broader than cyber — governance · information · personnel · physical

the cyber slice — the part you get measured on

ISMASD’s control catalogue. The tape reads against this.

Essential EightASD’s priority eight — mandated at Maturity Level 2.

IRAPASD

IRAP — the tape measure. An ASD-endorsed assessor pulls it across your system and reads it against the ISM. Point-in-time, not a certificate — the agency still signs off.

MDA — Modern Defensible Architecture. ASD, 2025. Zero-trust, secure-by-design — not a checklist, the direction of travel.on the radar

Family 02 — law

What the law requires

Regulation, with penalties attached. Home Affairs (CISC) owns and enforces it. No tape measure here — a court decides how you measured up.

critical infrastructure · bound big business · bound

SOCI Act 2018Critical-infra risk programs + mandatory incident reporting.

Cyber Security Act 2024Ransomware-payment reporting · smart-device rules · the CIRB.

Rule of thumbASD writes the “how”, Home Affairs writes the “must” — policy for government, law for critical infrastructure.Privacy Act & the globals sit outside the families — tracked below.

Tracking — frameworks · — ANZ · — global · — on the radar Last logged change · —