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SP 800-40 Version 2

Creating a Patch and Vulnerability Management Program

Date Published: November 2005

Supersedes: SP 800-40 (08/01/2002)

Author(s)

Peter Mell (NIST), Tiffany Bergeron (MITRE), David Henning (Hughes Network Systems)

Abstract

Keywords

computer security; security patches; vulnerability management
Control Families

Awareness and Training; Configuration Management; Planning; Risk Assessment

Documentation

Publication:
SP 800-40 Version 2 (DOI)
Local Download

Supplemental Material:
None available

Document History:
11/16/05: SP 800-40 Version 2

Topics

Security and Privacy
patch management; vulnerability management

Applications
enterprise