ManageEngine introduces cloud-based Patch Management Solution

ManageEngine, a real-time IT management company, has announced strengthening of its endpoint management offering by bringing Patch Manager Plus to the cloud. The automated patch management solution for Windows and third-party applications is available immediately. Patch Manager Plus on Cloud enables admins to automate the entire patch management process, from patch detection to deployment, without any infrastructure investment, thereby securing devices from multiple vulnerabilities and cyber-attacks at less than a dollar per computer per month.
 
Commenting on this, Rajesh Ganesan, Director of Product Management at ManageEngine, said, “With dynamics of digitalization fast changing and massive adoption of cloud technology, there is a greater need for automation in the endpoint management space, as endpoints are the major entry points of cyber-attacks. ManageEngine’s new cloud-based patch management solution is engineered to meticulously look out for such threats on the move, thereby keeping both data and endpoints secured.” 
 
According to Computer Crime and Intellectual Property Section (CCIPS), an average of 4,000+ ransomware attacks, have happened every day since 2016. Many victims of ransomware, such as WannaCry and Petya, have admitted that their failure to react and patch their business-critical computers/servers on time has made them fall prey. Though there are many reasons for cyber-attacks, CCIPS strongly suggests an automated and centralized patch management system as an effective prevention and response action that can significantly mitigate the risk posed to organizations due to cyber-attacks.
 
A growing mobile workforce in a data-sensitive world emphasizes the need for automation and cloud-based solutions, and proactive prevention measures to safeguard organizations from cyber-attacks as the operational line between personal and corporate is fast diminishing. Early in 2017, Gartner stated that the year-on-year growth of cloud application service (SaaS) offerings would increase by 20 per cent that year, predicting that the market share for cloud computing would continue to increase as well. This prediction indicates that many businesses today are moving their critical servers to the cloud, allowing them to strategize their business continuity planning more effectively and continue to operate without worrying about their infrastructure.
 
Addressing this trend, ManageEngine’s new Patch Manager Plus on Cloud is designed to instantly procure, test and approve patches before deployment for Windows and over 850 third-party applications automatically. The cloud solution also will run a health check every 90 minutes and generate a report on any vulnerable machines for that hour, thereby keeping the systems robust round the clock and cyber-attacks at bay.
 
Automated Patch Management from the Cloud
The cloud version of Patch Manager Plus reduces the time and effort needed to deploy patches among the growing workforce on time, thereby keeping the zero-day exploits and other vulnerabilities at bay. It also allows IT teams to remotely patch their servers, desktops, laptops and virtual machines from anywhere in the world by quickly creating an account and installing agents remotely.
 
ManageEngine’s cloud-based Patch Manager Plus increases IT teams’ productivity by automating the complete patch management process, such as:
 
•    Constantly scans the network to identify the health status from a single UI
•    Automatically detect, download and deploy the missing patches
•    Granularly controls patch deployment process, with advanced capabilities such as waking up computers for deployment and rebooting them, if required
•    Provides periodic notifications and out-of-box reports, including patch enforcement and patch compliance reports
 
The cloud version of Patch Manager Plus is available immediately at the company's website. Pricing starts at $34.50/month for 50 computers ($0.69 per computer). A fully functional, 30-day trial is also available. The Free Edition of the product is also available for startups and small businesses to manage up to 25 computers/servers.