Lumension Patch and Remediation
Lumension Patch and Remediation™ (formerly PatchLink Update) provides rapid, accurate and secure patch management, allowing you to proactively manage threats in the most complex environments by automating the collection, analysis and delivery of patches throughout your enterprise.
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Once you get used to options available PatchLink is simple to use and the export to CSV facility is very useful.
Mike Walder
Support Consultant
East Sussex County Council
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It is imperative that organizations move away from the scan-and-patch mindset. Not only is it a reactive method of security, but also not every problem can be fixed with a patch.
Matt Mosher
Author & Senior Vice President of Americas
Lumension
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Patch Management Business Issues and Challenges
The proliferation of Web 2.0 and social networking created new avenues to introduce malware into the workplace. In fact, Google has found well over 3 million malware-infected websites on the public internet. With software companies shortening software and OS lifecycle and releasing software prematurely, the number of bugs and design flaws is growing exponentially - on average, 13 new vulnerabilities are released per day¹. One recent virus attack was followed up with 6,000 different variations in just one night, but a patch for the underlying vulnerability had been available for a month.
IT administrators can't possibly stay updated on and implement the flood of software vulnerability patches consistently released by all the software vendors they use. A solution is needed that allows effective vulnerability patch management that can be automated for heterogeneous environments and alerts busy IT administrator to issues proactively so they can address them immediately.
¹ National Vulnerability Database, January 26, 2009
Identify & Patch Software Security Vulnerabilities with Lumension Patch & Remediation
As an essential part of the Lumension Vulnerability Management Solution, Lumension Patch and Remediation significantly decreases the costs involved in securing your organisation from worms, Trojans, viruses and other malicious threats and allows you to:
- Reduce corporate risk through the timely, proactive elimination of operating system and application vulnerabilities. Operating systems supported include Windows, Unix, Linux and Apple.
- Decrease IT costs and improve productivity with a highly automated, subscription-based patch management solution.
- Eliminate recurring risks through 'patch drift'
- Demonstrate compliance with security policies and government regulations through continuous patch monitoring and comprehensive reporting.
How it Works
- A comprehensive agent-based scan proactively assesses application, operating system and operational vulnerabilities on corporate endpoints.
- Remediation policies are defined and patches are rapidly deployed using the intelligent patch deployment wizard. Automated deployments are scheduled based upon patch criticalities and defined security policies and can be deployed individually or in phases.
- Lumension's patented Digital Fingerprinting™ Technology creates a patch fingerprint profile that includes all software, hardware, drivers, and existing and missing patches for each machine. Patch drift is eliminated by ensuring that endpoints get patched and stay patched enabling you to show validation of policy compliance and enforcement.
- A graphical "dash board" and over 20 standard reports document vulnerabilities, patch deployments, patch status, trends and inventory, assisting you to address operational, management and compliance reporting.
