PatchLink Accelerates Patch Management and Vulnerability Remediation Process

Tuesday, 24 October 2006 14:55

SYDNEY, 24 OCTOBER, 2006 – The nature of today’s security landscape requires organisations to deploy more security patches than ever, and at a faster rate, across heterogeneous IT environments.  In addition, organisations are faced with increased IT and regulatory compliance requirements.  To help organisations with patch compliance to quickly secure their networks, PatchLink Corporation, the market leader in patch and vulnerability management solutions, today announced the release of PatchLink Update™ 6.3, a best-in-class solution that delivers powerful performance, enhanced scalability, and broader coverage for diverse enterprise networks.

According to NIST, vulnerabilities are projected to increase 40 percent from last year, with over 6,700 vulnerabilities expected in 2006.  With strained IT resources and increasing threats, the biggest challenge facing organisations is rapid remediation of vulnerabilities across their entire infrastructure before an exploit occurs. PatchLink Update 6.3 further speeds patch management with expanded platform support for maximum endpoint coverage, mitigation of risk, and IT cost reduction

“As security remains a top priority, many enterprises are trying to do more with less while ensuring business value,” said Charles Kolodgy, Research Director for leading analyst firm IDC.  “In light of growing vulnerabilities, enterprises are looking for robust security solutions that can deliver optimal performance, vulnerability detection, rapid remediation, and broad coverage for their multiple platforms and applications.  To this end, PatchLink has combined leading-edge capabilities of vulnerability assessment, intelligent remediation and reporting to ensure complete network security while delivering value to enterprise customers.”   PatchLink Update 6.3 offers enhanced capabilities to enable organisations to quickly secure networks from threats, reduce overall IT costs, improve IT productivity, and increase overall network security. Additional features and benefits include:

§      Improved Performance to Quickly Secure Networks from Threats:
o      Deploy patches faster with overall performance improvements.
o      Detect applicable patches in seconds per machine.
o      Reduce server load and improve performance with new agent-side data processing and database query results caching.
  §      Greater Scalability and Security for Even Larger Networks: o      Optimise network traffic with additional bandwidth throttling options and less network bandwidth utilisation.
o      Increase security with best-of-breed RSA BSAFE® Encryption for both the transmission and storage of data, a unique PatchLink Update feature.
o      Increase database scalability with support for SQL Server 2005
  §      Expanded Platform Support to Protect Heterogeneous Environments:
o      Support additional platforms including Windows 64-bit Operating Systems, Novell SuSE Linux, and Macintosh on Intel.
  In addition, PatchLink’s Patented Digital Fingerprinting Technology provides a highly accurate patch and vulnerability management process for assessment, remediation, and continuous monitoring to improve IT and Regulatory compliance. It also offers comprehensive reports to help organisations track patch deployments and demonstrate progress towards internal and external audit requirements. “Our customers continually look to us for powerful security products to help accelerate the patch management process in a cost-effective manner,” said Neal Gemassmer, Vice President Asia Pacific, PatchLink. “Organisations are faced with a difficult task of protecting their critical IT assets. PatchLink has developed a best-in-class solution to help customers remediate vulnerabilities more thoroughly and quickly while continuously monitoring to make sure their environment is healthy at all times. With our proven technology, customers are able to patch 13 times faster than the industry standard which translates into mitigating risk quickly and in the most cost effective manner.”

PatchLink Update is available immediately.  Pricing starts at $1,970 for the PatchLink Update Server (PLUS) software, plus $25 per node per year for Windows agents, $105 per node per year for non-Windows agents (i.e., Linux, UNIX, NetWare, etc.) and $50 per node per year for Mac OS X.  

About PatchLink Corporation              PatchLink® is the global leader for security patch and vulnerability management solutions, delivering comprehensive, multi-platform assessment and remediation for continuous protection across the enterprise. Offering the most comprehensive platform and application support, PatchLink maintains the largest tested and most up-to-date security patch repository, enabling organisations to accurately assess and remediate vulnerabilities based on established industry best practices. Currently protecting thousands of commercial and government organisations and millions of PCs and servers worldwide, PatchLink effectively eliminates vulnerability risks and enforces security and compliance policies while reducing overall IT costs.  

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