Sitekeeper - Systems Management Software

North America

Blaster… MyDoom… Melissa… Every few months, there’s a new exploit that cripples thousands of machines all over the globe, and the problem is only getting worse. The bad guys know that thousands of organizations have no way of quickly rolling out patches. The faster they can get their exploits out in the wild, the more systems they can infect… and the more likely they are to make headlines. If you don’t have an automated patch deployment system, your organization is at risk!

Patchkeeper is the automated patch management system that fits your budget and your busy schedule. With Patchkeeper, you can:

Automatically track installed and missing Microsoft security patches

Manage patches by criticality, type, operating system, and more

Start managing right away with straightforward, intuitive
interface

Be confident that your organization is protected!

Where would you rather be next time there’s a major virus outbreak—in the trenches or on the sidelines? Automate and rest easy with Patchkeeper!

Automating Best Patch Management Practices:

Here is a description of how you can use Patchkeeper to automatically manage security patches on your network:

It is broadly recognized the best practice in patch management is to test all patches before deploying them, in case they break applications the organization depends on for its production. Most sys admins have a few systems they use for testing.

1.	Create a group called “Test Systems” and schedule Patchkeeper to scan for and deploy missing patches to these systems every day and to also alert you and/or others on your team via email every time a missing patch is identified.
2.	Go ahead and schedule your other systems to be automatically scanned and updated once or twice a week, but set a condition that only “Certified” patches can be deployed.
3.	Monitor your test systems and if the newly installed security patches cause no problems, flag them as “Certified” through Patchkeeper’s “Manage Updates” interface. Newly certified updates are deployed automatically the next time a regularly scheduled scan and deployment task comes around.

In this 1-2-3 fashion, you can use Patchkeeper to automatically keep your entire network updated with the latest Microsoft security patches.

	During the first half of 2004, the average time between public notification of a vulnerability and the release of a worm, virus or other security exploits was less than six days.

	Patchkeeper utilizes technology developed by Shavlik Technologies, Inc., a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner and the industry leader in patch management. By combining the Sitekeeper interface with Shavlik’s patch scanning and packaging engines, you get the most thorough and easy-to-use patch management system, that can be used as either a stand-alone tool or as part of the Sitekeeper Systems Management Suite.

	In 2001, the Code Red worm doubled its infection rate every 37 minutes. In 2003, Slammer doubled its infection rate every 8.5 seconds.

Sitekeeper shows you exactly how much money you are losing due to manual systems management tasks. IT staff manually going from machine to machine and lost employee productivity due to computer downtime when their systems are being worked on negatively affects your bottom line. Use our cost calculator to see how much money you are losing to manual systems management.

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	At the peak of its outbreak, the MyDoom worm was carried by one out of every 12 emails on the Internet.

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