The Importance of a PCI DSS Policy Template for compliance | Requirement 6

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Requirement 6, "Develop and maintain secure systems and applications" requires organizations to develop policy and procedure documentation for "security patch management" as it relates to the following categories:

• A formalized Security Patch Management Program employee, complete with his/her roles and responsibilities.
• Comprehensive inventory of all "system components" directly associated with the Cardholder environment.
• Comprehensive inventory of all other I.T. resources not associated directly with the Cardholder environment.
• Subscribing to industry leading security sources and additional supporting resources for vulnerability announcements, and other security patch management alerts and issues.
• Procedures for establishing priorities in regards to security patch management. This will include, but is not limited to, the following: 1. Significance of the threat. 2. The existence and overall threat of the exploit. 3. The risks involved in applying security patch management procedures (its affect on other systems, resources available along with resource constraints). Note:A PCI DSS policy template is extremely helpful for this step alone.
• The creation of a database of remediation activities that needs to be applied.
• Test procedures for testing patches in regards to remediation.
• Procedures for deploying, distributing and implementing of patches and other related security hardening procedures
Procedures for verifying successful implementation of patches and other related security hardening procedures.
• And "security patch management" is just but one of the many PCI DSS policy templates you will need to develop for Requirement 6 as there are other mandated PCI policies that must also be created.

The PCI DSS policy templates and supporting documentation found in the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standards (PCI DSS) Information Security Policy & Procedures manualis your answer to this requirement and all other 11 requirements that call for PCI policy and procedures.

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