Patch Management
By August of 2006, the number of critical security risks, to companies IT systems, exceeded the amount for the entire year in 2005. This rapid increase of critical errors, as well as the increase of mutating worms, viruses and Trojan horses is especially serious. Variants of the Bagle and Sober worms or of the Netsky and MyDoom viruses are increasingly threatening the security of IT infrastructures and must be considered as company-critical.
Empirum Patch Management is a cost effective way to help you ensure the security of your IT infrastructure. Patches are distributed and installed on your company’s computers in a process-oriented and automated manner. Empirum Patch Management is completely integrated within the Empirum architecture, and is easy to administer via the Management Console.
Empirum Patch Management recognizes and procures the necessary patches directly from Microsoft Update or by your company’s own WSUS. In order to assure productivity, the patches can be tested over a defined time interval, in a process-oriented and automated manner. Patch class structures offer flexible options for clients, servers or Citrix server farms by inclusion and exclusion of patches. Additionally, every change in the IT infrastructure can be traced via the history of installed and non-installed patches.
Reports showing installed and non-installed and required patches can be generated in various output formats. With the push of a button, the available reports provide an overview of the vulnerability status of any computer within the company’s network.
Empirum Patch Management is ready for Microsoft Vista!
Empirum Patch Management offers you the following advantages for securing your IT infrastructure:
- Process oriented, automated distribution, and installation of patches
- Additional updates for Microsoft products, for example: Windows, Office, Exchange, SQL Server and future products
- Observance of Compliance and Corporate Governance via the definition of security standards
- Multi-language support for international customers
- Comfortably and easily administered via a Management Console
- Automatic download of the updates from Microsoft Update by product and type
- Updates can be addressed to certain computers and groups
- Flexible availability options via patch classes
- Inclusion and exclusion of patches via patch classes
- Reporting of installed and not installed patches
- Automated testing of patches over definable time intervals
