Patch Management overview

Put your patch management to the test

Panaseer’s Patch Management provides continuous assurance that your patch management program is operating as expected, enhancing efficiency and effectiveness. By unifying data from patch management, CMDB, and other tools, Panaseer offers a comprehensive view of patch coverage, helping you identify gaps, improve prioritization, and measure performance against SLAs.

Organizations using multiple patching tools often face challenges in maintaining complete asset inventories and prioritizing patches effectively. Panaseer addresses these issues by combining business context with patch data, ensuring critical assets are prioritized and patch deployment is consistently tracked.

Benefits

• Continuous Tracking: Monitor all devices for available and outstanding patches to demonstrate improvements in patch management over time.
• Prioritized Risk Management: Identify high-risk, unpatched devices, and focus on critical assets using business context.
• SLA Compliance: Ensure patches are applied within SLA timelines to minimize risk exposure.
• Policy Performance Review: Analyze patch deployment trends, especially those deployed past SLA, to continuously reduce exposure.
• Unified Asset Inventory: Panaseer’s integrated asset inventory provides unmatched insight by combining data from patch management, vulnerability scanners, and CMDBs.

How It Works

Panaseer’s Patch Management aggregates data from security, IT, and business tools to deliver a complete view of your patch program. With out-of-the-box dashboards, metrics, and configurable SLAs, the platform tracks essential KPIs such as average days to patch and outstanding patches.

Patch prioritization metrics enable teams to direct patching efforts where they matter most. Performance is measured against defined thresholds, allowing organizations to focus resources on the highest-impact areas and continuously improve patch management practices.

Typical use cases

• Are patches applied within SLA? Gain assurance on patch deployment compliance, and identify reasons for any delays.
• What are the most common outstanding patches? Discover the most frequently outstanding patches to streamline remediation and maximize efficiency.
• Which areas of the business have the best/worst patch performance? Focus on critical business areas or crown jewel assets to enhance patch management where it’s needed most.

This solution offers in-depth insights into patch compliance and performance, helping organizations target patching efforts effectively and maintain secure operations.