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Category: Cybersecurity & AI

How Do I Assess Our Essential Eight Maturity?

Assess evidence, not confidence: Define the assessment scope; Check current requirements; Record evidence and gaps.

Assess Essential Eight maturity using evidence and current ASD requirements. Identify gaps and use the free SRMBOK Excel assessment tool.

How Do I Check Whether Information Is Safe to Paste into AI?

Pause before putting information into AI: Check the information; Check the approved service; Check the permitted use.

Check service approval and run four questions before pasting information into AI. Includes worked examples and the free SRMBOK AI Line PDF.

How Do I Make Cybersecurity Reminders Useful to Staff?

Make reminders easy to act on: One clear behaviour; A relevant place and time; A simple way to report.

Make staff cybersecurity reminders specific and useful. Connect a poster to invoice-fraud controls and download free PNG, PDF and Word files.

Do We Need OSCAL for Our Security Compliance Work?

Decide whether structured compliance helps: Repeated information; Consistent control records; Reusable assessment data.

What is OSCAL? A plain-English explanation of the NIST control documentation standard and how to decide if your organisation needs it yet.

How Can I Use AI to Help Draft Security Risk Work?

Use AI for a draft, then apply judgement: Set the task and context; Use approved information; Check every material claim.

Thirty ChatGPT prompts for risk practitioners, plus clear rules for what to paste into a prompt and what to always keep out.

How Do I Help Staff Recognise a Targeted Phishing Email?

A convincing email still needs checking: Notice an unusual request; Verify through a known channel; Report the suspicious message.

Spearphishing vs phishing: the practical differences staff need to recognise, since the generic red flags in most training don’t catch a targeted attack.

What Cybersecurity Questions Should I Ask at a Board Meeting?

Ask for evidence behind reassurance: What matters most?; What has been tested?; What decision is needed?.

Five cybersecurity questions for boards to ask management, moving past ‘are we secure’ to ones with evidence-based answers behind them.

Which Essential Eight Maturity Level Should We Aim For?

Choose a maturity target deliberately: Understand exposure; Review current ASD requirements; Plan the evidence and uplift.

An essential eight maturity level comparison for level 1 vs 2 vs 3, so you can pick a realistic target instead of guessing at compliance language.

How Do I Remove Sensitive Details from an AI Prompt Without Losing Its Meaning?

Remove identifying detail without losing logic: Keep necessary relationships; Generalise sensitive specifics; Check re-identification and output.

Remove or generalise identifying details in an AI prompt while retaining useful structure. Check re-identification risk, service approval and the resulting output.

Security Risk Templates by SRMBOK

Practical security risk guidance, worked examples and templates.

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