SecBoost Blog
Short posts on Australian cyber security, ISM compliance, governance, risk and SecBoost product updates, mirrored from LinkedIn for a permanent web copy.
It’s not the new SecBoost UI (although we are loving the retro terminal aesthetic).
Scope, context, implementation, evidence, risks and registers should not live in separate places.
SecBoost keeps them connected, turning them into a living workflow: Essential Eight and ISM reports, plans, policies, evidence records, completed CCMs, and OSCAL exports.
One workflow. No VT100 escape codes required.
Essential Eight used to be something many organisations treated as “good cyber hygiene”.
That’s changing.
More and more, organisations are being asked to show evidence of their Essential Eight posture: for government reporting, supplier assurance, defence-adjacent work, contract requirements, board risk discussions and cyber insurance conversations.
It’s no longer enough to say “we’re working towards Essential Eight”. Teams are being asked:
Can this be shown clearly to executives, assessors, customers or suppliers?
That is exactly the kind of problem SecBoost is built for.
SecBoost is Australian-native GRC software designed around the ISM, Essential Eight and IRAP workflows. Not a generic overseas compliance platform with an Australian framework bolted on later.
For organisations dealing with Essential Eight uplift, ISM documentation, supplier assurance or IRAP preparation, the work needs to be structured, current and evidence-backed.
SecBoost helps keep that work connected: scope, implementation detail, evidence, reporting and documentation in one Australian-focused workflow.
The June 2026 ISM update is now live in SecBoost.
The latest ISM release brings meaningful additions across AI security, cryptographic protection, application hardening, monitoring and personnel security.
New AI-related controls cover human oversight of risky actions, external data access, anomaly monitoring, secure deletion of chat content, and the use of AI to augment security operations and testing.
SecBoost updates the ISM as soon as it is available.
That means organisations completing IRAP assessments or Essential Eight uplift work can assess, assign evidence and report against the latest ISM control set straight away.
Two years ago, there were 938 ISM controls. Now there are 1,150.
That’s 254 controls added and 42 removed in the last 2 years.
The point is not that “more controls are bad” - that’s a discussion for another time. The point is that if you’re managing your assessment using spreadsheets, keeping up with ISM change is harder than it needs to be.
SecBoost keeps your document suite aligned with the ISM version. When new applicable controls are added, they flow through to the relevant policies, plans and procedures automatically - including your SSP Annex.
Get in touch if you’d like a chat about how SecBoost can streamline your Essential Eight or IRAP assessments.
SecBoost: assessment workflows made simple(r).
SecBoost has been designed to map your organisation and system context, assessment scope, controls, evidence and registers into a standardised, easily understood workflow.
Starting from a questionnaire asking about your org and system context, working through describing your assessment scope and the initial selection of applicable controls. Finishing at a complete system security documentation suite, your assessment findings, and an easily maintainable registers.
Preparing for an ISM uplift, Essential Eight maturity review or IRAP assessment? Get in touch if you want a clearer workflow for scope, evidence and assessor review.
SecBoost manages your BC and DR plan documentation.
Your Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery Plans are only useful if they are current, tested, and available.
🔄 Current: SecBoost SaaS maintains your BC and DR plans based on system context, assessment project scope, applicable controls, and supporting registers.
✅Tested: Record your continuity and recovery exercise scenarios, outcomes, gaps, and improvement actions in the Continuity Exercise Log register within SecBoost.
☁️Available: SecBoost SaaS is commonly hosted outside of your production environment, providing access to your plans, DR Service Recovery register, and DR Escalation and Communications register, along with the option to generate hardcopy versions of them.
And when audit time comes, SecBoost helps show that your continuity and recovery documentation is not just a recycled boilerplate, but maintained, tested and supported by evidence.
That evidence trail matters for ISM, Essential Eight Regular Backups, and ISO/IEC 27001:2022 controls covering disruption, ICT continuity and information backup.
So don’t wait until disaster strikes. Use SecBoost to keep your recovery plans current, tested, available, and audit-ready.
SecBoost turns assessment work into a usable security documentation suite.
For ISM, Essential Eight and IRAP readiness, documentation is often where teams lose time: policy templates, spreadsheets, notes, evidence records and assessor comments tend to drift apart.
SecBoost keeps all of that work connected.
SecBoost’s Documentation Suite uses the project’s system context and scope, ISM version, classification, control applicability and implementation notes to generate 20+ ISM-aligned policies, plans, standards, matrices and reports from the same source of truth.
This means:
So if you’re preparing for an ISM uplift, E8 maturity reporting or an IRAP assessment, get in touch and we’ll show you how SecBoost turns your working records into the documentation set your staff and assessors need.
ISM and Essential Eight compliance evidence living in scattered spreadsheets and email threads?
There is a better way…
SecBoost helps Australian organisations manage Essential Eight, ISM documentation, evidence and assessor workflows in one secure place.
The goals are simple: spend less time documenting, provide better information for reviewers, and automatically create clearer outputs when it is time to report or assess.
Built for Australian security assurance work.
Announcing SecBoost Risk and Continuity Registers
Your risk management documentation is only useful if the data behind it stays current, so we’ve added three new live registers to SecBoost:
Risk levels are auto-calculated from likelihood and impact, rows sorted by severity automatically, and registers are tied into SecBoost’s existing review cadence system so nothing goes stale unnoticed.
Keep your BC and Risk Management plans accessible, auditable and up to date with SecBoost.
Announcing SecBoost Jira Integration.
Maintaining a complex risk environment often means working across multiple systems, teams and workflows.
That’s why we’ve added optional Jira integration to SecBoost Control Implementation tracking.
With Jira integration, teams can create and track Jira tickets for ISM and Essential Eight controls directly from within SecBoost. It’s a faster way to assign work, coordinate across teams and keep uplift moving.
This complements SecBoost’s existing integrations, including:
If you’re a Jira shop working through your IRAP or Essential Eight uplift or security reporting, SecBoost is ready to help.
“What’s your Essential Eight maturity level?”
For some businesses this is a conversation starter, and a chance to demonstrate real value.
For others, it’s a quick answer and a closed door.
SecBoost helps Australian small businesses proactively manage their Essential Eight and ISM security uplift, generating required supporting documentation, suggesting control implementations, and keeping evidence attached to the controls it belongs to.
Be ready the next time the question is asked.
SecBoost is continuing to deepen its support for the Essential Eight.
We’ve added new Essential Eight reporting capability to SecBoost, including:
These reports help teams see target maturity progress, identify blockers, track gaps such as controls with no visibility, and give executives a clearer view of Essential Eight posture across one system or a broader portfolio.
This builds on our existing E8 dashboard, control mapping, evidence tracking, and documentation suite, all grounded in your actual project scope: systems, boundaries, classifications, suppliers, cloud services, and operational context.
If your team is preparing for DISP, IRAP, or an internal cyber uplift, SecBoost makes Essential Eight progress visible, actionable, and tied to the evidence that matters.
We’ve released a new SecBoost feature: Implementation evidence attachments.
You can now attach evidence directly to individual controls with simple drag-and-drop upload, so screenshots, PDFs, exports and other supporting records stay organised and easy to review.
That means less back-and-forth during IRAP assessments, a clearer audit trail, and evidence virus-scanned and stored exactly where your team needs it.
If you’re working through ISM compliance or preparing for IRAP, get in touch to see how SecBoost can help.
March 2026 ISM coverage added
SecBoost now supports the March 2026 ISM release across your project setup, SSP Annex, Control Matrix, and generated documentation suite.
This includes the updated cyber security principles plus new and amended controls covering areas such as executive AI accountability, cyber supply chain security, cryptographic agility, operational technology isolation, enterprise mobility, and secure AI application development.
Get in touch if you have any questions or would like a demo.
We’ve just released AI Implementation Suggestions in SecBoost.
This new feature gives customers a practical starting point for control implementation comments, generated from the control requirements and the project context already captured in SecBoost. It also suggests supporting evidence points, so teams can move from a blank field to a usable draft much faster.
Protecting customer data is paramount: we only send the official ISM control details and the structured project context needed to generate the suggestion. Existing implementation text and customer wording are not sent through for generation, access is permission-based, and prompt safety checks are applied before a request is processed. All AI runs on Australian-local, IRAP assessed (PROTECTED) infrastructure, and queries are not recorded outside your local audit logs or used for model training.
This results in faster drafting, less repetitive work, and customer teams still maintain control.
If you’re already using SecBoost, keep an eye out for the new AI Implementation Suggestion panel in the controls workflow.
SecBoost is now available.
SecBoost SaaS helps Australian businesses prepare to meet their IRAP, Essential Eight and DISP requirements by:
SecBoost takes an Australian ISM-first approach, not crosswalked from ISO 27001, NIST 800-53, CIS or SCF, and is updated to the latest version, December 2025. It even includes an AI-governance policy template, automatically matched to your applicability and implementation.
For IRAP assessors and enterprises, SecBoost has implemented workflows, tasks, teams, and SSO, giving them the tools to assess or manage several systems from one secure panel.
If you would like to see SecBoost in action, please get in touch and we’ll be happy to give you a demo.
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