EvidenceSheet
ACSC Essential Eight Maturity Model (November 2023) · Patch applications

PATCHAPP-ISM-1704 Office productivity suites, web browsers and their extensions, email clients, PDF software, Adobe Flash…

Office productivity suites, web browsers and their extensions, email clients, PDF software, Adobe Flash Player, and security products that are no longer supported by vendors are removed. Required at Maturity Levels One, Two and Three of the Patch applications mitigation strategy (Appendices A, B and C); ISM control ISM-1704 in ASD's Essential Eight to ISM mapping (December 2023).

Source: ACSC Essential Eight Maturity Model (November 2023), PATCHAPP-ISM-1704. The statement above is our statement of the clause, read from the published text and cited so you can check it against the official text, not the instrument verbatim. Open ACSC Essential Eight Maturity Model (November 2023) in the compliance library.

Each row is an ISM control the maturity model requires, with the maturity levels named in its text. Pick your target maturity level and use the rows for it.

2
artefacts
0
held by a system
1
at each review
hard
to go live
Policy repository / GRC workspace
where the evidence lives
teal = a system already holds it · olive = produced at each review. To go live: easy when half or more of the artefacts are already held by a system, moderate from a quarter to a half, hard below a quarter.

These are the artefacts auditors commonly ask for on this requirement, our guidance rather than text from the standard. Your assessor decides what is sufficient in your context, and asks for samples across the period when a report covers one.

system holds itEvidence a system already holds

none for this control

periodic reviewEvidence produced at each review

  • Evidence that Adobe Flash Player is removed (hotfix KB4577586 or equivalent removal record) · Vulnerability scanner / patch tooling

governing documentDocuments that govern the control

  • Software inventory of office suites, browsers and extensions, email clients, PDF software and security products checked against vendor support lifecycles · Policy repository / GRC workspace

First move

No system holds this evidence for you: it is people and documents. Reminders and routing to the owner still save time. Put the document under version control with an owner and review date, and log each review as a record with reviewer and date.

Common gaps auditors find

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Paste the rows you run your controls from and get this mapping for every control at once, with the periodic-review ones flagged and a first move per row. No account for the first run.

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