Ecora Patch Manager 5.0
(1.5 M)August 13, 2008
Microsoft Security Bulletins
MS08-041: Microsoft Windows
ms08-042: Microsoft Windows
ms08-043: Microsoft Windows
ms08-044: Microsoft Windows
ms08-045: Microsoft Windows
ms08-046: Microsoft Windows
ms08-047: Microsoft Windows
ms08-048: Microsoft Windows
ms08-049: Microsoft Windows
ms08-051: Microsoft Windows
Who uses
Patch Manager?
“Ecora's Patch Manager centralized and automated our patch management process saving us a significant amount of time and ensuring our system security. Additionally, its great reporting shows both our management and auditors up-to-date details on our patch status.”
Jason Bordun
IT Manager
Cape Cod Cooperative Bank
“Patch Manager allows us to view our environment as a whole so that we can quickly see what patches are deployed, where they are deployed, and when. We then use Patch Manager to apply missing patches and generate the reports that prove to our auditors that we are in compliance with our patch policies.”
Turnor Wootton
Enterprise Architect
People's Bank
“Patch Manager greatly helps us meet the unique needs of our users allowing us to patch systems at certain times so that we don't compromise patient care. Additionally, its comprehensive reporting lets us constantly prove we're in compliance with out HIPAA policy for patch management.”
Brian Young
Senior Server Analyst
TriHealth
Benefits
in Patch Manager 5.0:
- Wake on LAN – scan machines that are turned off
- Ability to patch across firewalls and on workstations and servers in a DMZ
- Enforce corporate patching policy with Import/Export feature
- Improve scanning time by 25% or more with Rapid Scan
- Allow/deny reboot on agent systems
- Faster, snappier UI
- Scan for only the patches you want
- Ability to select all missing patches in a scan with one click
- IIS-hosted Repository in addition to UNC
- Bandwidth throttling
- Ability to quickly abort patching on agent systems
- Keep UI window re-sizing
Prevent 90% of Security Breaches and Prove Compliance
Worms, viruses, and hackers exploit know vulnerabilities and put your data and security at risk. Ironically patches exist to close 90% of known vulnerabilities.
Patch Manager automates system discovery, patch assessment and patch installation on workstations and servers.
- agent-less or optionally agent-based
- intuitive UI
- view missing patches by systems, applications, specific patches or according to your policy
- installs in minutes, auto-discovers servers and workstations
- 24 hour Microsoft patch release guarantee from Ecora
- patch ANY Windows application Microsoft supports, other companies' Windows-based patches, or patches for home grown applications
- Automated patch roll-back on one or more machines
- 25+ web-based reports to validate you are in compliance – way better than WSUS
- Logically groups systems for ease of management
- Ecora engineering notes from extensive lab testing
- 3rd-party severity ratings from CIAC
- Links to Microsoft and other vendors' patch information
- Scheduled patch deployment
Ecora Patch Manager provides out-of-the-box patching capability for the following Microsoft products:
- Windows 2000 Advanced Server
- Windows 2000 Professional
- Windows 2000 Server
- Windows Media Player
- Windows Server 2003 Data Center Edition
- Windows Server 2003 Enterprise Edition
- Windows Server 2003 Small Business Edition
- Windows Server 2003 Web Edition
- Windows XP Professional
- IIS
- Internet Explorer (including versions 6 x64 (SP1 and SP2) and 7 x64)
- MDAC
- .NET
- DirectX
- SQL Server (through SQL Server 2005 Standard and Express Edition, including SP1 and SP2)
- MSDE
- Exchange Enterprise Server
- Exchange Server
- Outlook
- Outlook Express
- Office (through Office 2007, including SP1)
- Excel
- Word
- Powerpoint
- Access
- Media Player
- Core XML Services
- SharePoint Services
- MSN Messenger
The Ecora Patch Manager Extensibility feature can add non-Microsoft patches (or custom patches) for applications that run on a Microsoft OS.
