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Case Study: Small Business Banking Company switches to Patch Manager for 3rd-party patches

“Patch Manager works very well for patching 3rd party applications.”

Challenges

  • Inconsistent deployment of timely patch updates when vulnerabilities arise out of potentially unwanted programs, malware and newer threats.
  • Prior to SolarWinds Patch Manager, Microsoft and 3rd party patches were managed through:
    • Manual patching and in-house processes, and
    • Microsoft SCCM

Use Case

A Small Business Banking Company IT environment comprises of:

  • 251-1,000 servers, and
  • 1,001-5,000 workstations (including notebooks)
  • Pushes out 21 – 50 patches per month with Patch Manager.

    Primary reason for choosing to purchase SolarWinds Patch Manager?

    • Ease of use
  • Results

    • Patch Manager helps:
      • To test and deploy patches without affecting business/IT productivity
      • Define and execute patch strategies for different user groups or computer groups
      • To easily control how disruptive the patch process needs to be (e.g. control reboots, system restore, etc)




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