Patch Management
Unparalleled patching for your evolving IT estate
The daily number of exploits, attacks and other vulnerabilities can be overwhelming. Rather than patch everything at once, a better approach to vulnerability management is to know what software you have, what’s vulnerable and how serious the threat represents to your organization.
Expose vulnerabilities and prioritize remediation efforts with patch management from Flexera where you can take advantage of Secunia Research and leverage insights to quickly mitigate vulnerabilities with out-of-the-box patches and details to help you easily create more.
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Deliver on risk mitigation with powerful patch management
Reliable intelligence
Standardized, validated, and enriched vulnerability research
Patches are only as good as the information they’re built upon. Secunia Research delivers software security research that provides reliable, curated and actionable vulnerability intelligence. Organizations can expect to receive standardized, validated and enriched vulnerability research on a specific version of a software product.
Vendor patch module
Prioritize software updates for improved performance
One increasingly popular way to address the need for patches is to subscribe to third-party patch catalogs. However, these are just blind sets of patches and may overlap, with no real direction on how best to address your estate. Flexera gives you valuable insight from Secunia Research, and with the Vendor Patch Module, you can take action quickly by leveraging our exhaustive repository of third-party patch data.
Prioritize patching effectively
Improve risk mitigation and resource utilization
Thousands of software vulnerabilities are introduced every year—a number that is likely growing faster than your organization’s ability to keep pace. Flexera threat intelligence adds a valuable layer of insight to help you prioritize the time you spend mitigating software vulnerabilities instead of just patching blindly without an actual assessment of the risks to which your organization is exposed.
Benefits of proactive patching with Flexera
Powerful patch management
- Quickly assess, prioritize and fix software vulnerabilities to reduce risk across Windows and Mac
- Gain visibility over your software vulnerability management processes
- Establish a solid, repeatable process so the next big vulnerability disclosure is business as usual
- Understand and prioritize patches applicable to your environment leveraging our vulnerability and threat intelligence insights
- Deliver patches rapidly, leveraging the largest set of third-party patches on the market
- Respond even faster with patch automation options that consider the impact of any update
“[Flexera] has become fundamental to our patch management regime. We now have oversight that we’ve never had before. What was a complex, difficult, and time-consuming process is now more structured, prioritized and focused. We’re in a better position than we’ve ever been."
Frequently asked questions
Software vulnerability is a structural or design flaw present in a software application that can be exploited by attackers to compromise the security and functionality of the system, network or data with which it interacts. To learn more, visit our glossary here.
Implementing a comprehensive strategy to mitigate software vulnerabilities and safeguard your organization can present a number of obstacles. Common challenges include: resource constraints, complexity of systems, third-party dependencies, legacy systems, time sensitivity, skills shortages and regulatory compliance. Click here to learn more.
Automating patching can over stress your testing process, causing testing to be bypassed in many cases. Deploying patches without a testing regime can lead to several critical issues that could compromise the stability, security, and functionality of systems. A prioritized vulnerability management process reduces the number of patches that need to be tested prior to rollout and saves time and effort across the board.
Not all exposures are equal. While some vulnerabilities have evidence of widespread exploitation and should be addressed ASAP, many vulnerabilities are theories of how an attacker could compromise something, but no evidence exists that it is occurring today. Change requests to create out-of-band maintenance cycles require evidence. Zero-day vulnerabilities must be addressed ASAP. Flexera Software Vulnerability Management provides all of the data necessary to show what devices are affected, and the threat that those devices are laboring under. By addressing threats quickly, you greatly reduce the risk of compromise.
Improve risk mitigation
Prioritize patching efforts with Flexera’s Secunia Research