ACSC Essential Eight
Patch applications – ACSC Essential Eight

ACSC Essential Eight E8-PATCHAPP-ISM-0304: Patch applications (ISM-0304): Applications other than office productivity suites, web browsers and their extensions, email clients, PDF software, Adobe Flash Player, and security products that are no longer supported by vendors are removed

Applications other than office productivity suites, web browsers and their extensions, email clients, PDF software, Adobe Flash Player, and security products that are no longer supported by vendors are removed. Required at Maturity Level Three of the Patch applications mitigation strategy (Appendix C); ISM control ISM-0304 in ASD's Essential Eight to ISM mapping (December 2023).

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What else in your programme already covers this

This control maps to 2 controls across 2 other frameworks. If you already hold one of them, the evidence you collected for it is the starting point here rather than new work.

Australian Information Security Manual · 1 control

  • ISM-0304 Removing unsupported applications

ISO 27002:2022 · 1 control

  • 8.8 Management of technical vulnerabilities

Every mapping shown was judged rather than inferred from wording similarity, and the ones that failed review are published too. See the coverage reports and what was rejected.

Other controls in Patch applications – ACSC Essential Eight

You are reading one control. How much of ACSC Essential Eight have you already done?

ACSC Essential Eight E8-PATCHAPP-ISM-0304 is one control. If you already hold one of the frameworks below, a reviewed crosswalk already says how much of ACSC Essential Eight your existing evidence covers. Hold FedRAMP Moderate and 18 of 176 ACSC Essential Eight controls already carry evidence.

If you hold FedRAMP Moderate10.2% covered · 158 gapsIf you hold Azure Security Benchmark8.5% covered · 161 gaps

Each report names every control your existing framework evidences, every one it does not, the reasoning behind each claim, and the claims that were argued against and rejected. 0 were rejected on the FedRAMP Moderate pair alone.

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The graph holds this control, the 2 it maps to, and the evidence behind each claim, over MCP and REST.

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