CIS Controls v8.1
CIS Control 16: Application Software Security – CIS Controls v8.1

CIS Controls v8.1 16.2: Establish and Maintain a Process to Accept and Address Software Vulnerabilities

Keep a process for receiving and dealing with reports of software vulnerabilities, including a channel for outside parties. It should include a vulnerability handling policy naming the reporting route and the party responsible, and steps that take a report in, assign it, fix it and test the fix, using a tracking system with severity ratings and metrics on time to identify, analyse and fix. Review yearly or after significant change. Developers of third-party applications should treat this as an externally facing policy that sets expectations for outside stakeholders. Implementation Groups: IG2 and IG3 (not in the IG1 baseline; applies from IG2 upward). Asset type: Documentation. Security function: Govern.

Maintained by Gerard Blokdyk

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