Vulnerability and patch management procedure
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For vulnerability, service and change owners to identify affected populations, assess exposure, choose treatment, deploy patches or safeguards, verify results and manage exceptions.
- Document type
- Procedure
- Format
- DOCX
- Pages
- 9
- Language
- English
- Version
- 1.0
- Updated
- 2026-09-15
- Category
- Information security
- Licence
- Internal use
Description
For vulnerability, service and change owners to identify affected populations, assess exposure, choose treatment, deploy patches or safeguards, verify results and manage exceptions.
Contents
- Document control
- Purpose of this procedure
- Establish the managed population
- Define source intake conditions
- Validate the condition and affected population
- Set priority and treatment timing
- Select and define the treatment
- Manage patches through controlled change
- Control emergency treatment
- Manage time-limited exceptions
- Verify change across the affected population
- Coordinate vulnerability disclosure
- Manage unsupported technology
- Review exposure windows
- Rehearse a difficult vulnerability case
Version history
- v1.015/09/2026