Recital 16 Security patch management procedures

In order to avoid significant disruption and harm caused by the exploitation of unpatched vulnerabilitiesmeans a weakness, susceptibility or flaw of ICT products or ICT services that can be exploited by a cyber threat; in network and information systemsmeans:an electronic communications network as defined in Article 2, point (1), of Directive (EU) 2018/1972;any device or group of interconnected or related devices, one or more of which, pursuant to a programme, carry out automatic processing of digital data; ordigital data stored, processed, retrieved or transmitted by elements covered under points (a) and (b) for the purposes of their operation, use, protection and maintenance;, the relevant entitiesmeans a natural or legal person created and recognised as such under the national law of its place of establishment, which may, acting under its own name, exercise rights and be subject to obligations; should set out and apply appropriate security patch management procedures which are aligned with the relevant entitiesmeans a natural or legal person created and recognised as such under the national law of its place of establishment, which may, acting under its own name, exercise rights and be subject to obligations;’ change management, vulnerabilitymeans a weakness, susceptibility or flaw of ICT products or ICT services that can be exploited by a cyber threat; management, riskmeans the potential for loss or disruption caused by an incident and is to be expressed as a combination of the magnitude of such loss or disruption and the likelihood of occurrence of the incident; management and other relevant procedures. Relevant entitiesmeans a natural or legal person created and recognised as such under the national law of its place of establishment, which may, acting under its own name, exercise rights and be subject to obligations; should take measures proportionate to their resources to ensure that security patches do not introduce additional vulnerabilitiesmeans a weakness, susceptibility or flaw of ICT products or ICT services that can be exploited by a cyber threat; or instabilities. In case of planned inaccessibility to the service caused by the application of security patches, the relevant entitiesmeans a natural or legal person created and recognised as such under the national law of its place of establishment, which may, acting under its own name, exercise rights and be subject to obligations; are encouraged to duly inform customers in advance.