Patch Management
Patch management automates the tasks of maintaining current knowledge of available patches and deciding what patches are appropriate for particular systems, ensuring that patches are installed properly. With a proper patch management in place, vulnerabilities on the network are kept to minimal which in turn would safeguard your organisation by decreasing security threats. Advantages include:
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Collapse of patch and update time scales
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Reduce in staff workloads
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Reduce in IT service delivery costs, e.g. labour and reporting
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Increase in effectiveness of OS and application patch processes
Benefits of implementing Patch Management solution
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Real time visibility and control - capable of managing hundreds of thousands fixed or mobile computers located anywhere in the world, on public or private networks, simultaneously and in real-time without the need for servers or management resources
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Support for multiple platform environments and topologies - desktops, laptops, servers; Windows, UNIX, Linux, Macintosh
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Scalability - actions executed locally on each endpoint, in parallel across the entire network, no server bottlenecks



