Patch Management

Using WSUS to Deploy Patches? Then the Job is Not Done

WSUS and SCCM don’t patch non-Microsoft applications like Adobe Reader, Apple iTunes, or Mozilla Firefox leaving you exposed to hackers and malicious websites. Shavlik NetChk Protect finds and deploys missing patches for 3rd party applications and Microsoft operating system and applications.

Best-in-class Patch Plus capabilities bundled in an easy-to-use, centralized console to simplify and automate the top IT challenges faced by today’s IT environments. NetChk Protect delivers enterprise IT capabilities without the enterprise cost or complexity, reducing time to value from months to minutes.

• Up and running in 30 minutes or less
• 3rd party application patching
• Single console to manage both physical and virtual machines
• Agentless or Agent-based implementation
• Trusted, proven patch assessment technology – first to market with patch data
• Most flexible, precise reboot options in the industry

One Patch Solution for Physical and Virtual Machines

Shavlik is the only vendor to centralize patch management for your physical and virtual machines, including those pesky and nearly invisible offline virtual machines. Don’t be fooled by pretenders. No one else can provide a single tool set, single process, single console to handle your physical servers, desktops, and laptops AND your virtual machines whether powered on or powered off.

Agentless and Agent-Based Solution

Shavlik offers the industry’s only solution that blends Agentless and Agent-based operations. In places where Agents are a necessity – roaming laptops, we offer an extremely flexible and powerful Agent while our Agentless implementation provides complete coverage and reduces the management overhead for servers and workstations that don’t stray from the protected confines of the data center or corporate office.

Patch Microsoft and Non-Microsoft Apps

Microsoft WSUS is a free Microsoft utility and underlies SMS/SCCM core patch technologies. It patches most current Microsoft operating systems and applications, but not legacy Microsoft applications or the most attacked, non-Microsoft applications such as Adobe Reader, Adobe Flash Player, Apple Quicktime, or Sun JAVA.

See what Gartner says about the importance of patching third party software:
Gartner Report: Top 10 Steps to Avoid Malware Infections by, Peter Firstbrook

“IT organizations must strive for continuous improvement in vulnerability detection and rapid security patch management, especially in often overlooked non-Microsoft components that are Web-facing. Unpatched vulnerabilities are the primary infection method of targeted and mass propagation threats. Deployment of non-Microsoft patches is often significantly slower and less organized. All internet-based applications especially browsers and browser plug-ins (i.e., Adobe and Apple QuickTime), should be a top patching priority.”

Shavlik’s Any Patch, Anywhere technology and Custom Patch Editor deliver maximum coverage enabling you to patch virtually any application running on your network.