Patch Management Policy Template

Patching is an important part of cyber security. It addresses vulnerabilities in software and operating systems, helping to protect them from exploitation by cyber criminals. Using our Patch Management Policy Template, easily create a policy to ensure that patches are applied regularly and when required, so your systems stay secure.

This template can be used as a Cyber Essentials patch management policy as it supports regular patching of your software and operating systems.

 Cyber Essentials compliance

Furthermore, by implementing patch management, you are conforming to one of the five basic security controls of the UK government’s Cyber Essentials scheme. Compliance with the scheme provides a range of benefits, including reduced insurance premiums and increased customer confidence and satisfaction.

What to expect from your Patch Management Policy Template

• Helps secure your organisation by ensuring an appropriate patch management policy is in place.
• Applicable for all ongoing updates and patches within your organisation.
• Outlines the patch management process within your organisation, and how these updates and patches should be logged.
• Can be used as a cyber essentials patch management policy to demonstrate compliance with the scheme.
• Written documentation demonstrates your understanding of patch management within existing operating systems.
• Accessible in our Cloud-based DocumentKits platform, compatible with any device.

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Standards, regulations and best-practice guidance are constantly changing. Our technical advisors work throughout the year to closely monitor changes that affect your compliance requirements, so that we can ensure you are working from the very latest guidance. With the online DocumentKits platform, you can:

• Access your templates anywhere, any time, ensuring your organisation can always use and edit your files, regardless of operating system.
• Work from the most up-to-date documentation to ensure ongoing compliance. Our simple subscription service offers more than 200 annual updates and revisions to the toolkit range, in line with the latest guidance and standard revisions.
• Save hundreds of pounds each year. The subscription service allows you and your colleagues year-long access to pre-written, compliant documentation, including free upgrades and revisions.
• Customise the toolkit with your company logo and automatically populate fields to speed up your documentation process.
• Reduce duplication and effort by integrating your documentation with other toolkits.
• Easily complete the customisable free-text sections with our tooltips and guidance notes.
• Effortlessly extract files to PDF to save on shared servers, intranets or wherever else you need them.
• Collaborate with team members and share the workload with this Cloud-based platform, which includes access for up to ten users per year.
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