Business Challenge

The ever-increasing threat of virus attacks and security breaches place organizations at risk for potentially devastating business losses and network downtime. These risks make it critical for enterprises to continually scan and detect vulnerabilities, and rapidly deploy updates to protect their systems. Such fixes can be time consuming, costly, and inefficient — especially when deployed without consideration for user roles or corporate change management best practices.

Business Need

• Provide patch and security compliance by detecting vulnerabilities and performing auto-remediation
• Dramatically reduce the maintenance and support cost associated with manual patch processes
• Maximize productivity via continuous patch management regardless of employee location or access
• Automatically verify and report on the compliance status of any system under management

Our Solution

A key extension to our BMC Configuration Automation for Clients solution, BMC Configuration Automation Patch Manager enables you to manage and deploy security and functional patches and service packs on desktops, laptops and mobile devices.  By automating critical patch management functions (patch collection, preparation, testing, staging, deployment, auditing), BMC helps you save time, improve response times, and reduce attack-related risks. BMC Configuration Automation Patch Manager plays a key role in an effective change management process that automates change request, authorization, implementation, and verification of any change requests according to user roles and corporate policies.

Key Features & Benefits

• Features a common user interface to view a normalized display of all available patch data, including dependencies, and customize patch information
• Provides patch-testing capabilities that allow administrators to group test patch installations within sample environments
• Allows you to deploy patches based on security policies for ongoing operations or specific tasks for emergency deployments
• Identifies vulnerabilities, automatically delivers critical patches and fixes to thousands of endpoints, and verifies deployment success
• Allows you to proactively manage the distribution of patches and service packs including functional, anti-virus, and security patches, to lower patch management costs

 BMC Configuration Automation Patch Manager is part of the overall BMC Configuration Automation for Clients solution.