Improve Patch Management
Managing patches is an issue of critical importance to system administrators and IT managers and should be to all business owners and those responsible for their in house network. The consequences of being unpatched can be dire. In its Intelligence Report for the second half of 2008, Microsoft found that 91.3 percent of attacks against Microsoft Office exploited a single vulnerability that was patched more than two years ago (CVE-2006-2492).
Accurate patch management significantly decreases the costs involved in securing your organization from worms, Trojans, viruses and other malicious threats and allows you to manage both physical and virtual machines, reduce corporate risk and optimize IT operations through the elimination of operating system and application vulnerabilities across all systems and servers.
Patch Management or the ongoing routine function of applying patches, hotfixes, security fixes, etc. can be a constant battle for those manually supporting a network. Not only is it time consuming (having to manually configure and approach patches on individual machines) but can be costly if not done timely and consistently. Often times, because it is so time intensive, this is one of the routine network maintenance tasks that gets pushed down the priority list.
To effectively manage and maintain a network, automated patch management needs to be a core component of the set of management tasks performed. FPA’s Patch Management services provides automatic discovery of all missing patches and updates. We have the ability to automate the entire patch scan process including scheduling when each machine is scanned and what patches and or updates have been approved for installation. We can view and report on the complete patch history for each machine including missing patches and patches that have been successfully applied.
We automate the deployment and installation of patches and updates on a predefined and recurring schedule. Once the initial scans are completed we quickly review the results for each machine and decide if, when and how each missing patch or update will be applied.
As a trusted technology advisor, we work with our clients to ensure patch management is as effective as possible.
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