Automated Patching: Windows, Linux and Third-Party Apps
Most successful attacks use a weakness that already had a fix. Patching closes those gaps, but done by hand it slips: a server is skipped, a reboot is postponed, an application nobody owns stays years out of date. We automate it as a process: updates are tested on a pilot group first, approved, installed in a maintenance window that suits you, checked afterwards, and reported on every month.
What is included
- Windows, Windows Server and Linux updates, on servers, laptops and desktops
- Third-party applications kept current too: browsers, PDF readers, Java, Zoom, 7-Zip and the like
- Pilot groups first, then everyone, in maintenance windows you agree to
- Critical security fixes fast-tracked when a vulnerability is being exploited
- Reboots scheduled and checked, so a patch is really in place
- Failed updates retried, investigated, and rolled back if they break something
- Monthly compliance reports: what is patched, what is not, and why
- Tools: Microsoft Intune, Windows Autopatch, Azure Update Manager, WSUS, dnf-automatic, unattended-upgrades and Ansible
What you get
- Known vulnerabilities closed on a schedule, not when someone remembers
- Fewer surprises: updates tested before they reach everyone
- Patch evidence for auditors, insurers and POPIA section 19
One engineer handles it from start to finish, so a change requested today can be in production the next day, once change-control documentation and testing are complete.
- Updates released
- Pilot group
- Approval
- Maintenance window
- Reboot and verify
- Compliance report
- Rollback, if an update breaks something
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Talk to us about automated patch management
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