← Governance + Assurance ASD ESSENTIALS · ADVICE + ENGINEERING + OPERATION

Protection that holds.
Progress you can prove.

Your business keeps moving. Your security needs to move with it.

ASD Essentials brings enterprise IT, cloud and operational technology into a broader, outcomes-based approach to cyber resilience. Readii helps you turn that direction into a practical programme, backed by the people who can advise, build and operate it.

THE READII APPROACH

Trusted advice.
Connected to the operating day.

A strategy earns its place when your people can put it to work. We bring technology delivery, managed security and managed intelligence together around your business priorities.

ADVISE + ENGINEER

Make the right move.

We work with your leaders and technical teams to understand the exposure, agree responsibilities and shape a funded roadmap. Our engineers carry the agreed changes into your identity, networks, cloud and recovery arrangements.

Consulting + Projects
MANAGED SECURITY · MSSP

Stay with the risk.

We connect security monitoring, investigation and response to the controls protecting your operation. We agree coverage, escalation and response authority, then use service reviews to address gaps and strengthen the next decision.

Cyber Security
MANAGED INTELLIGENCE · MIP

Advance with control.

As your Managed Intelligence Provider, we help make AI useful and governable. We define identities, approved information and permitted actions, test the workflow with your team and keep human approval around consequential decisions.

Managed Intelligence
START WITH WHAT YOU OPERATE

One direction.
The right path for your environment.

The framework connects security outcomes, the actions that support them and the domains where they apply. We help choose the relevant chapters and scope the business functions behind your technology. A hybrid business may need more than one chapter.

Enterprise ITOn-premises, hybrid and infrastructure you operate

We start with the systems that anchor access and the services exposed to attack, then extend the programme across critical operations, administration, business applications and devices. Assets are scoped by what they do and the consequences of compromise.

Governance + CultureOwnership, investment and risk decisions throughout
  1. PRIORITY PHASE 1

    Secure the entry paths.

    Boundary services
    Identity services

  2. PRIORITY PHASE 2

    Protect the critical core.

    Critical processes and services
    Privileged environments

  3. PRIORITY PHASE 3

    Extend across the estate.

    Business systems
    User devices

Visibility + ResponseDetection, investigation and response throughout

Priority phases guide implementation order. They are not maturity levels or assurance ratings. Governance and response capabilities begin early and grow across the programme.

CloudSaaS, PaaS and the responsibilities that stay with you

A provider can supply a security feature without making it effective in your tenant. We clarify what your team operates, what a provider supplies for you to configure and what you need to verify through provider assurance. Identity, data, integrations and administration stay visible in that shared-responsibility record.

Where you run the underlying infrastructure yourself, including IaaS, we also consider the enterprise IT chapter. We choose the guidance around your actual responsibilities.

Operational TechnologyPhysical processes, site dependencies and safe continuity

OT needs a different sequence: boundaries and critical processes first, then privileged environments and identity, followed by supporting business systems. Safety and continuity shape every change.

We work with your operational owners and specialist suppliers to understand connectivity, remote access and recovery dependencies. Where patching or replacement would disrupt operations, we agree compensating controls and a considered change plan. Isolation and recovery arrangements need to work when normal services are unavailable.

YOUR TEAM, BACKED BY OURS

From a clear baseline.
Into a stronger operation.

Bring us in for a focused starting point or a wider programme. We agree the scope, responsibilities and evidence before the work begins.

Readii adviser working through an assurance review with a customer

Understand what matters.

We map critical services, assets, suppliers and existing controls with your team. You leave the review with a clear baseline, the gaps that matter and agreed ownership.

Engineer the improvements.

We plan the first priority scope, costs and dependencies, then introduce changes through agreed testing, change windows and rollback arrangements. Reusable patterns help carry the work across sites.

Show that it works.

We build evidence into delivery and help assess effectiveness across the agreed domains. Where an independent assessment is needed, we prepare the evidence and work with your chosen assessor.

Keep it working.

We agree monitoring, operating ownership and review cadence. Changes in your estate, suppliers and threat exposure feed the next improvement, with implementation and ongoing operating costs made clear.

INTELLIGENCE WITH ACCOUNTABILITY

AI belongs inside
the security programme.

ASD treats AI as a security consideration, a defensive capability and an asset to govern. We bring AI services, agents, connectors and non-person identities into the conversation about access, data and operational risk.

For your AI workflows, we agree who owns the outcome, what information can be used, what actions are permitted and when a person must step in. Evaluation, activity records and a workable fallback follow the workflow into operation.

Meet your Managed Intelligence Provider
A CLEARER CONVERSATION WITH LEADERSHIP

Evidence for the next
business decision.

We help your leaders see where protection is working, where coverage is incomplete and which decisions need their attention. Outsourcing delivery does not transfer your organisation’s accountability; we make the responsibilities on both sides clear.

Arrange an Essentials briefing

A report your leaders can use.

  • The assessed scope, exclusions and evidence limits
  • Effectiveness by domain, with gaps kept visible
  • Remediation owners, priorities and accepted risks
  • Operating responsibilities, funding and next review
ALREADY WORKING ON ESSENTIAL EIGHT?

Build on the investment
you have already made.

ASD has released the new Essentials framework, with transition expectations and future adoption guidance continuing to develop. Your Essential Eight controls and current evidence give you a strong starting point; we map them to the relevant Essentials actions and domains, then identify the next uplift.

Readii helps you act on what is clear now, continue approved security improvements and evolve the programme as ASD’s roadmap develops.

Essential Eight Assessment + Transition
About this guidance + official sources

Reviewed 22 October 2026. ASD has released the Essentials framework and will continue publishing transition and adoption guidance. Readii helps organisations establish a practical baseline now, carry forward their Essential Eight investment and evolve the operating programme as the framework develops.

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