Panda Patch Management

2018: Release of Panda Patch Management

On September 12, 2018 the Panda Security company announced release of the solution Panda Patch Management. This solution is integrated in corporate solutions of security of Panda and allows to simplify considerably tasks of management of vulnerabilities and updates of operating systems and other third-party applications.

The majority of the attacks and exploits use not updated systems and third-party applications, operating the known vulnerabilities which can have updates in weeks or even one months prior to an incident with them. The information security is in a situation when it is required to think not of if our company falls a victim of violation, and about when and as we will be able to detect the malefactor and adequately react to his actions before it is able to cause serious damage to our enterprise.

Panda Patch Management is an important part of flexible architecture of the expanded security implemented in the solution Panda Adaptive Defense 360. It not only strengthens key features on prevention, but also helps to reduce considerably the surface of the attack on end devices. Also helps to facilitate instant reaction, isolating the compromised devices and applying updates in real time only one click in the web console of the platform of management Aether.

The integrated and simple management tools in use which allow them to reduce the surface of the attack are required for the organizations and also to react without delay to any incident of security, applying to vulnerable devices patches in real time one click from the single console of security and management. to Iratksa Vasquez, the product marketing manager in Panda Security

The solution Panda Security on management of vulnerabilities offers following features:

• Detection, planning, installation and monitoring: Provides visibility of level of "health" of end devices in terms of vulnerabilities, patches or missing updates and also unsupported software.
• Audit, monitoring and installation of priorities for updates of operating systems and applications. Updated in real time, the solution is proposed by visibility of the status of patches and missing updates for systems and hundreds of third-party applications.
• Prevention of incidents due to systematic reduction of a surface of the attack created by vulnerabilities of software. Management of patches and updates using simple management tools in use in real time which allow the organizations to advance the attacks operating vulnerabilities.
• Control and mitigation of the attacks due to application of patches on one or several end devices. The console compares the detected threats and exploits with the detected vulnerabilities. Response time is minimized since distribution of patches from the web console leads to control of the attacks and elimination of their effects.
• Reduction of operating expenses. Implementation or updating is not required. No efforts because updates are started far off from the web console are required. The solution provides operational visibility of vulnerabilities, updates and applications at which life term ended.
• Respect for the principle of accountability: Many regulations, such as GDPR, HIPAA and PCI, force the organizations to undertake adequate measures for ensuring confidential data protection which are under their control. Panda Patch Management helps you to conform to these requirements.