ACSC Essential Eight
Patch Applications

ACSC Essential Eight PATCHAPP-ML3: Patch Applications (ML3)

All ML2 requirements plus: Patches or vendor mitigations for office productivity suites, web browsers and their extensions, email clients, PDF software and security products are applied within 48 hours of release when vulnerabilities are critical or working exploits exist. Applications other than the priority classes that are no longer supported by vendors are also removed.

What else in your programme already covers this

This control maps to 34 controls across 22 other frameworks. If you already hold one of them, the evidence you collected for it is the starting point here rather than new work.

CIS Controls v8 · 3 controls

  • CIS-2.2 Ensure Authorized Software is Currently Supported
  • CIS-7.2 Establish and Maintain a Remediation Process
  • CIS-9.1 Ensure Use of Only Fully Supported Browsers and Email Clients
  • ASBv3-PV-6 Rapidly and automatically remediate vulnerabilities
  • PV-5 Perform vulnerability assessments

FedRAMP High · 2 controls

  • CM-8 System Component Inventory
  • SI-2 Flaw Remediation

FedRAMP Moderate · 2 controls

  • CM-8 System Component Inventory
  • SI-2 Flaw Remediation
  • NIST-CSF-ID.RA-06 Risk responses are chosen, prioritized, planned, tracked, and communicated
  • NIST-CSF-PR.PS-02 Software is maintained, replaced, and removed commensurate with risk

NIST SP 800-161 Rev 1 · 2 controls

NIST SP 800-53 Rev 5 · 2 controls

  • CM-8 System Component Inventory
  • SI-2 Flaw Remediation
  • CM-8 System Component Inventory
  • SI-2 Flaw Remediation
  • CM-8 System Component Inventory
  • SI-2 Flaw Remediation
  • ANSSI-HYG-35 Anticipate the End of Maintenance of Software and Systems

C5 (Germany) · 1 control

  • C5-OPS-18 Managing Vulnerabilities, Malfunctions and Errors - Concept

CMMC 2.0 · 1 control

ISO 27001:2022 · 1 control

  • 8.8 Management of technical vulnerabilities

ISO 27002:2022 · 1 control

  • 8.8 Management of technical vulnerabilities

NIST SP 800-171 · 1 control

  • 171-RA-2 Vulnerability Scanning and Remediation

PCI DSS 4.0 · 1 control

  • 11.3.1 Internal vulnerability scans quarterly

SWIFT CSCF · 1 control

  • SWIFTCSCF-2 Reduce Attack Surface and Vulnerabilities (Objective 2)

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

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

ACSC Essential Eight PATCHAPP-ML3 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 24 ACSC Essential Eight controls already carry evidence.

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 34 it maps to, and the evidence behind each claim, over MCP and REST.