Does your organization have a formal process to rapidly acquire, analyze, and respond to vulnerability disclosures affecting your technologies from suppliers, vendors, and third-party security advisories?

Reacting to vulnerability disclosures is the focus here: assessors want a formal process to rapidly acquire, analyze, and respond to advisories affecting your technologies from suppliers and third parties. An effective vulnerability disclosure monitoring process helps identify security weaknesses promptly, allowing for timely remediation before they can be exploited by threat actors.

Evidence could include documentation of your vulnerability management process, screenshots of vulnerability tracking systems, subscription confirmations to vendor security advisories, or reports showing the timeline from vulnerability disclosure to analysis and remediation planning. A sample vulnerability bulletin or advisory distributed internally would also serve as good evidence.