PatchLink ERS
PatchLink Enterprise Reporting provides powerful reporting that measures and demonstrates network security and compliance across the enterprise. As an extension of PatchLink Update PatchLink Enterprise Reporting allows analysis and reporting on all aspects of the patch and vulnerability management process. With its Open Reporting Schema you can easily create and automate reports based on your unique security policies.
- PatchLink ERS Datasheet v3.0 0.24MB
Lumension Security Case Study
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
PatchLink Enterprise Reporting Server delivers an advanced regulatory compliance solution that is tightly integrated with remediation and vulnerability management via PatchLink Update.
PatchLink ERS is designed with scalability in mind to efficiently gather patch, vulnerability and inventory information from the network edge for utilization in centralized reporting. This advanced compliancy reporting solution is specifically designed to meet the needs of large enterprise organizations, through efficient administration, advanced security options, customizable data views and reports, and full support for industry database and reporting.
Ensuring compliance to network security policies and regulations is a critical component of an effective security strategy. Executives need accurate analysis and reporting to better understand their security posture and manage policies and regulations. With an Open Reporting Schema and advanced custom reporting capabilities, reporting goes beyond an administrative function to provide visibility for senior management to better measure and manage the patch and vulnerability process.
- Understand key performance indicators throughout the patch and vulnerability lifecycle
- Analyze trends and improvements to patch and vulnerability performance across your network
- Demonstrate and manage compliance to security policies and regulations over time
- Analyze global changes to hardware and software configurations overtime
- Monitor patch status levels across your enterprise
| With PatchLink ERS organizations are able to extend their existing investment in PatchLink Update technology to achieve highly-automated enterprise-wide compliancy reporting. By implementing organizational compliancy policy via PatchLink Update’s mandatory baseline capabilities, compliancy levels can be automatically reported without manual manipulation of data. |  |
Because the reporting process is tightly integrated with enforcement and remediation, reports are accurate and timely, providing administrators and senior management with the information they need to demonstration organizational compliancy to policies and regulations.
ScalablePatchLink ERS is built to scale to meet the compliancy and inventory reporting needs very large organizations. The flexible centralized reporting model allows for ERS overlapping implementations at headquarters and the division or department level. Automated data transfers, report generation, and report distribution provides the organization with high service levels while reducing the impact of compliancy reporting on IT staff. Enterprise-level database performance is provided via support for Microsoft SQL Server Enterprise Edition. Distributed edge-data collection done in the normal course of operation by PatchLink Update minimizes the central computing load and resources required for a PatchLink ERS implementation. Out-of-the-box reports created for Microsoft SQL Server Reporting Services ensure the speed and performance that large enterprises require.
CustomisablePatchLink ERS is designed to provide both the power and flexibility to customize compliance, vulnerability and inventory reports to meet the exacting needs of large organizations. A wide range of built-in reports with powerful data filters allow customers to immediately generate meaningful and useful reports. Customers can also define the exact set of compliance, vulnerability, and/or inventory items that they want to analyze, providing targeted and meaningful reports. PatchLink ERS utilizes Microsoft SQL Server Reporting Services and provides support for multiple data export formats as well as ODBC. This provides customers with multiple options for generating fully custom reports, including Visual Studio, Active Reports, or Crystal Reports.
SecureSecuring organizational data assets has been the main genesis of regulatory compliance, so it only makes sense that PatchLink ERS provides advanced security for compliance reporting data. From the beginning of its travels at the edge of the network, compliance reporting data is compressed, encrypted and validated every step of the way. As an added layer of security role-based access privileges ensure that only those that are authorized can see specific reports for specific parts of the organization.
OpenAlthough it natively supports Microsoft SQL Server Reporting Services, PatchLink ERS was designed to be fully open, to ensure interoperability with any existing reporting platform. A well documented schema and a descriptive data dictionary combine with support for ODBC to provide everything necessary to integrate PatchLink ERS into an organization’s current reporting platform. The expense and downtime associated with implementing yet another reporting platform is eliminated with PatchLink ERS.
