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.
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.