PV-5 Perform vulnerability assessments
Use Defender Vulnerability Management or equivalent to identify vulnerabilities in VMs, containers, and databases on a continuous basis.
3
artefacts
0
held by a system
2
at each review
hard
to go live
Vulnerability scanner / patch tooling
where the evidence lives
teal = a system already holds it · olive = produced at each review
system holds itEvidence a system already holds
none for this control
periodic reviewEvidence produced at each review
- Vulnerability assessment coverage report · Vulnerability scanner / patch tooling
- Patch management evidence · Vulnerability scanner / patch tooling
governing documentDocuments that govern the control
- Critical/high vulnerability ageing · Policy repository / GRC workspace
First move
This control is evidenced by people and documents, not systems. Put the document under version control with an owner and review date, and log each review as a record with reviewer and date. Do not try to automate it.
Common gaps auditors find
- VAs not scheduled regularly
- Coverage gaps for containers
- Critical findings exceed SLA
Do this for your whole sheet
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.
Build my evidence sheetPV-4 Audit and enforce secure configurations for compute resources · PV-6 Rapidly and automatically remediate vulnerabilities