Today’s IT departments are busy and spend the majority of time fixing virus-infected user desktops and reactively fighting malware attacks, rather than proactively securing the organisation’s network and preventing security vulnerabilities from being exploited.

The proliferation of Web 2.0 and social networking created new avenues to introduce malware into the workplace. In fact, Google has found well over 3 million malware-infected websites on the public internet. With software companies shortening software and OS lifecycle and releasing software prematurely, the number of bugs and design flaws is growing exponentially – on average, 13 new vulnerabilities are released per day¹. One recent virus attack was followed up with 6,000 different variations in just one night, but a patch for the underlying vulnerability had been available for a month.

IT administrators can’t possibly stay updated on and implement the flood of software vulnerability patches consistently released by all the software vendors they use. A solution is needed that allows effective vulnerability patch management that can be automated for heterogeneous environments and alerts busy IT administrator to issues proactively so they can address them immediately.

Lumension Patch and Remediation™ provides rapid, accurate and secure patch management, allowing you to proactively manage threats in the most complex environments by automating the collection, analysis and delivery of patches throughout your enterprise. As an essential part of the Lumension Vulnerability Management Solution, Lumension Patch and Remediation significantly decreases the costs involved in securing your organization from worms, Trojans, viruses and other malicious threats and allows you to:

• Reduce corporate risk through the timely, proactive elimination of operating system and application vulnerabilities. Operating systems supported include Windows, Unix, Linux and Apple
   
• Decrease IT costs and improve productivity with a highly automated, subscription-based patch management solution
   
• Eliminate recurring risks through 'patch drift'
   
• Demonstrate compliance with security policies and government regulations through continuous patch monitoring and comprehensive reporting

How it Works

1. A comprehensive agent-based scan proactively assesses application, operating system and operational vulnerabilities on corporate endpoints
    
2. Remediation policies are defined and patches are rapidly deployed using the intelligent patch deployment wizard. Automated deployments are scheduled based upon patch criticalities and defined security policies and can be deployed individually or in phases
    
3. Lumension’s patented Digital Fingerprinting™ Technology creates a patch fingerprint profile that includes all software, hardware, drivers, and existing and missing patches for each machine. Patch drift is eliminated by ensuring that endpoints get patched and stay patched enabling you to show validation of policy compliance and enforcement
    
4. A graphical “dash board” and over 20 standard reports document vulnerabilities, patch deployments, patch status, trends and inventory, assisting you to address operational, management and compliance reporting

If you would like to discuss Lumension and the product range please contact:  Glenn Bridges, Sales Specialist on 07918 709181