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UK Cyber Essentials · Malware Protection

MP.2 Anti-Malware Signatures Updated

Where anti-malware software is used, it must be kept up to date with the latest signatures and engine updates.

Source: UK Cyber Essentials, MP.2. 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 UK Cyber Essentials in the compliance library.

The version of the requirements is not stamped here; check the question set your certification body uses.

2
artefacts
1
held by a system
1
at each review
easy
to go live
Endpoint management (MDM / EDR)
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

  • Out-of-date device list with remediation · Endpoint management (MDM / EDR)

periodic reviewEvidence produced at each review

  • AV signature age report · Document repository

governing documentDocuments that govern the control

none for this control

First move

Automate the pull from your Endpoint management (MDM / EDR). Device compliance report from the MDM (encryption, EDR agent, OS version) on a daily pull.

Common gaps auditors find

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.

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MP.1 Anti-Malware Software Deployed · MP.3 Anti-Malware Scans Files on Access and Web Pages