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Task Patch Management and continuous monitoring

Conditions

Create task(s) to continuously perform vulnerability scans of all assets. Identify and remediate all critical and high vulnerabilities more than 30 days.

Standards

  • Perform authenticated (domain privileged, local admin, root) scans.
  • All assets on the network must scanned.
  • All assets must be scanned monthly.
  • Vulnerability scan signature (plugins) must be updated within 15 days of the scan.

End State

Must produce proof of recurring patch management and continuous monitoring.

  • Vulnerability scan history of 2 months
  • Patch management history of 2 months
  • No critical and high risk vulnerabilities detected over 30 days of detection

Notes

Manual Steps

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Dependencies

References

NIST 800-53
NIST 800-171

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