LANDesk’s Security Suite V9 offers you greater flexibility with Endpoint Security, patching and automation to take some of the headaches away from managing the patching of the PCs and OS.

Unlike WSUS, which only covers security updates for Microsoft applications, LANDesk Patch Manager provides additional software patch management for other applications such as Adobe.

Let’s take a quick look at Patch Manager. Traditionally, you’ll schedule the download of patches and updates for Microsoft, Adobe, Mozilla, Yahoo, etc.. Once you have the definitions downloaded, you’ll scan the PCs to find out that they need. Next you’ll push the patches to the PCs and set the patches to autofix.  Autofix will patch the PCs as it finds the missing patches, during the vulnerability scan. This is a sound and simple process of keeping your PCs up to date. 

However…

There is an often over looked process in LANDesk Patch Manager that lets you automate software patch management. LANDesk Process Manager for Patch lets you configure a workflow that:

• Alerts when the patches are available and/or downloaded

• Tracking and audit trails of all of the events

• Processes to speed the approvals and deployment

• Testing and notifications of successes/failures

• Deployment to configurations

To see more of LANDesk Security Suite and its protection capabilities, join us on May 13th at 2pm EST for a free online webinar.