PATCHengine
CNS’s PATCHengine solution helps address patch management challenges, whether in support of business compliance needs or internal threat management best practice, through its ability to audit and report upon real-time patch status. PATCHengine is easily deployed and is configured to conduct scheduled patch scans against enterprise assets. Result data is centrally collected, stored and inventoried and easily viewed via a feature rich management dashboard interface.
CNS’ PATCHengine solution is designed to provide customers with the required level of ‘assurance’; the knowledge that previously deployed patches remain deployed within the target environment and the required patch state is maintained.
PATCHengine dovetails into an organisations patch management lifecycle and addresses the following key challenges:
- Volume; it is necessary to identify and evaluate all new patches as they are released. Enterprise can rarely achieve the rate of internal change required to keep up with patches.
- Complexity; each patch must be validated and understood, its origin, relevance and equally the required level of knowledge and skill to deploy
- Time; speed of patch identification remains crucial. Late detection of the need to patch greatly increases threat.
- Proactive; many patch management plans involve reacting to a particular event i.e. raising a patch anomaly after the business has incurred the impact or disruption to business services.
- Environmental Change; probably the biggest challenge faced is the seemingly unreachable goal of tracking changes.
- Centralised Management; very often patch levels are identified and recorded but in an ineffective and disjointed manner thereby making real-time assessment of risk context difficult and time consuming.
- Cost; organisations incur significant cost through attempting to maintain a resource intensive patch management plan – distracting valuable resource from core duties. System downtime resulting from poor patch management can also cost businesses heavily
When coupled with CNS’ HOUSEwatch service, tangible benefits of the PATCHengine are significantly increased.
