Guide to Enterprise Patch Management Planning: Preventive Maintenance for Technology

Patch management involves more than choosing an update tool. NIST explains how business owners, security teams and operations staff can agree priorities, prepare for emergency updates and confirm that patches reached the intended systems.

Inside the whitepaper

• Agree who owns each step, from receiving a patch notification through to verifying installation.
• Plan separate workflows for routine updates and urgent vulnerabilities.
• Account for systems that cannot be patched immediately and document how their exposure will be reduced.