UK Cyber Essentials
Security Update Management

UK Cyber Essentials CE-SU.2: Automatic Updates Enabled Where Possible

Automatic updates must be enabled on devices and software where the option exists, to ensure security updates are applied without delay.

What else in your programme already covers this

This control maps to 23 controls across 20 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 · 2 controls

  • CIS-7.3 Perform Automated Operating System Patch Management
  • CIS-7.4 Perform Automated Application Patch Management

FedRAMP High · 2 controls

  • CM-6(1) Automated Management, Application, and Verification
  • SI-2 Flaw Remediation

FedRAMP Moderate · 2 controls

  • CM-6(1) Automated Management, Application, and Verification
  • SI-2 Flaw Remediation
  • ANSSI-HYG-34 Define an Update Policy for Information System Components
  • ASBv3-PV-6 Rapidly and automatically remediate vulnerabilities

C5 (Germany) · 1 control

  • C5-OPS-22 Testing and Documentation of known Vulnerabilities

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-CSF-PR.PS-02 Software is maintained, replaced, and removed commensurate with risk
  • SI-2 Flaw Remediation
  • SI-2 Flaw Remediation
  • SI-2 Flaw Remediation

PCI DSS 4.0 · 1 control

  • 6.3.3 All system components are protected from known vulnerabilities by installing applicable security patches/updates as follows: • Patches/updates for critical vulnerabilities (identified according to the risk ranking process at Requirement 6.3.1) are installed within one

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 Security Update Management

You are reading one control. How much of UK Cyber Essentials have you already done?

UK Cyber Essentials CE-SU.2 is one control. If you already hold one of the frameworks below, a reviewed crosswalk already says how much of UK Cyber Essentials your existing evidence covers. Hold FedRAMP Moderate and 29 of 36 UK Cyber Essentials 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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