Title

The system must employ automated mechanisms or must have an application installed that, on an organization defined frequency determines the state of information system components with regard to flaw remediation. (Cat II impact)

Discussion

Organizations are required to identify information systems containing software affected by recently announced software flaws (and potential vulnerabilities resulting from those flaws) and report this information to designated organizational officials with information security responsibilities (e.g., senior information security officers, information system security managers, information systems security officers). To support this requirement, an automated process or mechanism is required.

Check Content

Verify the organization has an automated process to scan systems for identified software flaws and vulnerabilities. If it does not, this is a finding.

Fix Text

Establish an automated process to scan systems for identified software flaws and vulnerabilities.

Additional Identifiers

Rule ID: SV-48383r2_rule

Vulnerability ID: V-36734

Group Title: WINGE-000028

Expert Comments

CCIs tied to check.

Controls tied to check. These are derived from the CCIs shown above.