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Challenges & Goals
Most organizations have one or more provisioning/patching solution in place for different systems, but one of the primary challenges these organizations face is validating that the patches and updates they’ve distributed have actually been applied. Agent-based solutions are difficult to manage, especially in large environments, and pose challenges that are often difficult to overcome like ensuring the agents are installed and configured appropriately on all hosts, and that the appropriate services are running in order for the host to receive the patch properly.
Other challenges that many organizations face is that they cannot
- Quickly assess their current patch status
- Obtain a global view of their patch status across all systems
- Definitively validate that their provisioning application has not returned false-positives or false-negatives from Registry readings
Outside of the technical difficulties involved in patching and provisioning, the security vulnerabilities and financial risks associated with being out of compliance make this already difficult process even more critical for every organization to address.
The Advantage
As a complement to the provisioning solutions your organization is already using, StealthAUDIT will provide definitive validation of the patch’s adherence to the target machine by verifying the correct file version is in place within the file system; not the Registry alone. This form of validation will virtually eliminate false-positives and false-negatives reported from Registry readings.
StealthAUDIT’s Patch Check Data Collector will also provide a simple method of creating customized Patch-Check queries, importing knowledge directly from Microsoft’s Knowledge Base or allowing the user to define any patch definition for any application running on a Windows Operating System or UNIX/Linux host.
Key Features and Benefits
StealthAUDIT is the ideal solution for organizations looking to obtain a global third party validation of their patch status across their enterprise. As part of our service offering, STEALTHbits Technologies creates and distributes StealthAUDIT Patch Validation jobs to StealthAUDIT users for every Microsoft patch and hot fix update within 72 hours of its release.
With StealthAUDIT’s Patch Validation Solution Set, you can:
- Perform easy discoveries to identify all hosts attached to the network, and even rogue hosts.
- Validate provisioning application agents are installed on all desired hosts
- Validate all agents are configured properly and are running on all hosts
- Validate patch adherence through file definition checks; not just Registry readings
- Obtain a global view of your patch status across the enterprise through web-based reports and dashboards with explicit details on all systems
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