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Patching 3rd Party Applications

Challenge: Vulnerabilities in third party applications have become the new attack vectors into organizational networks, but take at least twice as long to be patched than operating system vulnerabilities.

Question: How can organizations effectively patch vulnerabilities for both operating systems and third-party applications, in one simple process?

Solution: Lumension Patch and Remediation, provides rapid, accurate and secure patch management for applications and operating systems, allowing you to proactively manage threats and IT risk even in the most complex of environments.

Managing Heterogeneous Content across Supported Platforms

Challenge: Many organizations operate a variety of operating systems in their endpoint environments, but patch management solutions don't always support non-Microsoft operating systems, especially those that are offered free of charge.

Question: Organizations with heterogeneous networks typically need to use multiple patch management solutions and perform many manual steps. How can one automate this process?

Solution: Lumension Patch and Remediation provides a single solution to meet all your patching needs.

Centralized Management of System Desktop Config Tasks and Policies

Challenge: System Desktop Configuration Tasks, such as disk defragmentation and enforcement of security settings, are important to keep desktops running efficiently, but they can take a lot of time and resources if done manually and thus aren't done often enough.

Question: How can one centralize and automate these tasks to ensure they're run on a regular basis?

Solution: System Management Pack in Lumension Patch and Remediation helps centralize the management, enforcement, and reporting of security and systems management tasks to optimize IT efficiencies.

Automating Tasks, Configurations, and Patch Policies

Challenge: It takes a tremendous amount of time to fully patch and configure the entire endpoint environment. In addition, endpoint configurations change frequently through user modifications, software installations and uninstalls.

Question: How does one effectively and continuously enforce endpoint configurations, remediations, and policies?

Solution: Policy baselines in Lumension Patch and Remediation provide continuous policy enforcement of patches, remediations and configurations enhancing your security posture and lowering TCO.

Using Advanced Patch Deployment Options

Challenge: Having to deploy multiple patches across 100's or 1000's of endpoints can take a lot of time and coordination by the IT staff, and greatly impact end users.

Question: How can one automate this process while customizing deployments?

Solution: Patch deployments can be customized with advanced tools (deployment options), e.g. chaining multiple patches, setting custom flags, and controlling reboot/ dismiss options, which optimizes IT resources.

Streamlining Third-Party Application Updaters in your Environment

Challenge: A lot of third-party applications routinely perform automatic software updates, introducing unwanted add-ons and reconfiguring endpoints. Some internally developed applications are built on specific software such as Java JRE, and if users update it manually, they could break the internally developed application.

Question: How can one reduce or manage these third-party application updaters without end-user impact?

Solution: The System Management Pack in Lumension Patch and Remediation includes specific patches that help reduce third-party application updaters in your environment.

Automatic Software Removal to Enforce your Company Policy

Challenge: Many endpoint users have administrative privileges and often perform software installations that do not follow the company software policy.

Question: How does one effectively and continuously enforce company software policy?

Solution: Policy Baselines in Lumension Patch and Remediation provide continuous software policy enforcement that increases your security posture and lowers your TCO.

Patching Powered Down Machines

Challenge: ChallengeMany organizations deploy power management policies that power down devices during off-hours, representing a security gap in ongoing network maintenance because these machine do not receive critical updates, patches and software updates during maintenance windows.

Question: How does one ensure that offline machines are patched without physically turning on every single machine?

Solution: Wake-on-LAN in Lumension Endpoint Management and Security Suite helps increase the security posture of offline machines while reducing IT power consumption.

Eliminating End-user Impact with Hours of Operation

Challenge: Patch maintenance can cause business disruptions and impact the productivity of the organization. Many organizations find it challenging to deploy critical patches at a time that is convenient for the business.

Question: How can one deploy patches without causing downtime for users within the organization?

Solution: Flexible Operating Hours (Hours of Operation) in Lumension Endpoint Management and Security Suite allow you to define business hours for all of your groups resulting in no downtime or disruptions for your end-users.

Patching Virtual Machines

Challenge: Most organizations today deploy a mixture of both physical and virtual machines in their environments. However, some endpoint solutions may not identify virtual machines creating a serious security gap.

Question: How can one detect and remediate all physical and virtual endpoints in the same patch management tool?

Solution: Lumension Patch and Remediation increases your visibility and security posture through virtual awareness.

Integration with the LEMSS

Challenge: Managing patch operations and endpoint management in separate tools contributes to agent bloat and impacts endpoint performance and visibility. Due to a lack of integration, many organizations are managing patch operations separate from endpoint management.

Question: How can one combine patch operations and endpoint management in one tool?

Solution: The integration of Lumension Patch and Remediation and Lumension Endpoint Management and Security Suite provides seamless security enforcement, reduced agent bloat, and improved endpoint visibility.

How to Remove MAC Defender

MacDefender is fake security program targeting the Mac OS users. Through a combination of SEO optimization and a socially engineered website, Mac users are tricked into installing the Mac Defender malware. In this video, step-by-step procedures are outlined to ensure that Macdefender has been removed from any infected machines in your environment using Lumension Patch and Remediation