Essential Eight Compliance: Key Metrics To Track | UpGuard

### Executive Summary: This blog post outlines the Australian Essential Eight cybersecurity framework and its maturity model, then provides practical, control-by-control metrics organizations should track to measure progress toward compliance — covering application control, patching (applications and OS), macro configuration, application hardening, privileged access restriction, MFA, and daily backups — and references UpGuard as a tool to help monitor external attack surface and manage risk.