Automatically identify and patch vulnerabilities quickly across heterogeneous operating systems, applications and endpoint configurations

Patch Management Business Issues and Challenges

As IT environments have become increasingly complex, supporting virtual, distributed, and disparate platforms, companies must ensure that they maintain control of their endpoints. Ensuring endpoints are configured and patched correctly across the operation system and 3rd party applications is paramount to reducing IT risk and improving endpoint operations.

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With the browser fast-becoming the new corporate desktop and 3rd party applications being heavily targeted by cybercriminals it has become more challenging to effectively mitigate IT risk exposures across today's dynamic IT environments. In fact, the number one security priority listed by the SANS Institute is patching "client-side software"1.

To ensure that systems remain configured per policy and rapidly remediated against the growing list of application and OS vulnerabilities, a solution is needed that automates discovery, assessment and remediation for heterogeneous environments and alerts busy IT administrators to issues proactively so they can address them immediately.

Overview

Lumension® Endpoint Management and Security Suite delivers an end-to-end suite of solution capabilities across endpoint operations, security, compliance and IT risk management to reduce complexity, optimize TCO, improve visibility and deliver control back to IT.

Lumension® Endpoint Management and Security Suite: Patch and Remediation, which is the worldwide market share leader in patch management solutions, provides rapid, accurate and secure patch management, allowing you to proactively manage threats and IT risk even in the most complex of IT environments. This optimization is achieved by automating the patching process from vulnerability identification to patch collection, distribution, remediation and verification reporting. Lumension Patch and Remediation significantly reduces the exposure to cybercriminal and malware risk while decreasing the cost of endpoint operations and compliance reporting requirements.

  • A single, intuitive management console for easy patch and remediation administration across multiple platforms - Windows, Unix, Linux and Mac OS.
  • The industry’s broadest 3rd party vulnerability content available including the largest repository of Adobe vulnerability content.
  • Integrated asset discovery for full network visibility and continuous control across both physical and virtual environments.
  • Automated policy baselines to ensure that patches, configurations, remediations, and other tasks are continuously enforced.
  • Extensibility and customization via Lumension® Content Wizard including power policy management, software deployment and removal, desktop configuration templates and custom task scripting.
  • Enhanced Wake-on-LAN to provide complete visibility and control over powered down systems and ensure that critical patches and software updates are successfully deployed. When used in conjunction with Lumension Content Wizard, power management polices and efficient patch management with maximum energy efficiency can be attained.
  • Power management reporting to effectively demonstrate the value of reduced power consumption and to use this information to apply for potential power savings rebates from your local power company.*
  • IT risk management integration via Lumension® Risk Manager to automatically assess controls and potential deficiencies for IT risk management prioritization and compliance reporting.

* This is a separately licensed capability available through Lumension Patch and Remediation.


How it Works

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  • 1. Discover - Gain complete visibility of your heterogeneous network environment. Proactively discover all of your IT assets, both managed and unmanaged, through in-depth scans and flexible grouping and classification options.
  • 2. Assess - Proactively identify known issues before they can be exploited. Perform a deep analysis and thorough OS, application and security configuration vulnerability assessments.
  • 3. Prioritize - Focus on your most critical security risks first.
  • 4. Remediate - Automatically deploy patches to an entire network. Simplify the process of maintaining a secure environment by continuously monitoring, detecting and remediating policy-driven environments across all major platforms and applications.
  • 5. Report - Gain a holistic view your environmental risk. Access a full range of operational and management reports that consolidate discovery, assessment and remediation information on a single management console.
Source:
  1. www.sans.org/top-cyber-security-risks/summary.php