Example of Technical Vulnerability Management Policy

1 Policy Statement

To meet the enterprise business objectives and ensure continuity of its operations, XXX shall adopt and follow well-defined and time-tested plans and procedures, to ensure that all technical vulnerabilities that exist in the IT systems are identified and managed. IT systems contain inherent weaknesses that are termed vulnerabilities. Threats exploit vulnerabilities to cause harm to IT systems. Hence, it is imperative to regularly identify and plug those vulnerabilities and prevent the occurrence of security incidents.

2 Purpose

The purpose of the Technical Vulnerability Management Policy is to establish rules and principles for identifying and managing vulnerabilities in IT systems.

3 Scope

3.1 IT Assets

This policy applies to all hardware, software, and network assets.

3.2 Documentation

The documentation shall consist of Technical Vulnerability Management Policy and related procedures & guidelines. The Technical Vulnerability Management Policy document and all other referenced documents shall be controlled. Version control shall be to preserve the latest release and the previous version of any document. However, the previous version of the documents shall be retained only for a period of two years for legal and knowledge preservation purposes.

3.3 Records

Records being generated as part of the Technical Vulnerability Management Policy shall be retained for a period of two years. Records shall be in hard copy or electronic media. The records shall be owned by the respective system administrators and shall be audited once a year.

3.4 Distribution and Maintenance

The Technical Vulnerability Management Policy document shall be made available to all the employees covered in the scope. All the changes and new releases of this document shall be made available to the persons concerned. The maintenance responsibility of the document shall be with the CISO and website administrator.

4 Privacy

The Technical Vulnerability Management Policy document shall be considered as “confidential” and shall be made available to the concerned persons with proper access control. Subsequent changes and versions of this document shall be controlled.

5 Responsibility

The CISO / designated personnel and system administrator are responsible for the proper implementation of the Technical Vulnerability Management Policy.

6 Policy

It is the stated goal of XXX to provide secure IT systems and services in order to protect organizational information assets, as well as the privacy of employees, contractors, and third-party employees. The timely and consistent application of vendor-supplied security patches or mitigation of a reported vulnerability is a critical component in protecting the network, systems, and data from damage or loss due to threats such as worms, viruses, data loss, or other types of external or internal attacks. XXX  shall conduct routine scans of its website, servers (including those hosted at ABC), and devices connected to its networks to identify operating system and application vulnerabilities on those devices. XXX requires its system administrators to routinely review the results of vulnerability scans and evaluate, test, and mitigate operating system and application vulnerabilities appropriately. Should an administrator identify a reported vulnerability as a potential false positive, the CISO should be notified immediately.

7Enforcement

Any employee found to have violated this policy may be subjected to disciplinary action in line with the HR Policy.

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