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Project Description

Critical Cybersecurity Hygiene: Patching the Enterprise

Date Published: March 2020

Author(s)

Murugiah Souppaya (NIST), Kevin Stine (NIST), Mark Simos (Microsoft), Sean Sweeney (Microsoft), Karen Scarfone (Scarfone Cybersecurity)

Abstract

Keywords

cyber hygiene; incidents; patching; security hygiene; software updates; vulnerabilities
Control Families

None selected

Documentation

Publication:
Project Description (pdf)

Supplemental Material:
Project homepage

Document History:
08/31/18: Project Description (Draft)
03/30/20: Project Description (Final)

Topics

Security and Privacy

patch management, vulnerability management

Technologies

software & firmware