3rd party application patching tools for Windows

[andronin at gmail.com (Kim White)]

Lumension has a product called Patch Guard. Haven't used it in production
but the trial worked great.

Regards

KimW
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On Sat, Sep 5, 2009 at 02:44, Rob Fuller <jd.mubix at gmail.com> wrote:

> Secunia ( http://secunia.com/vulnerability_scanning/ ) - has a pretty cool
> product that has 3rd Party app patch detection. I have used their PSI tool
> at home, and I like it. Their "Corporate" version I am betting as a way for
> the admin to push updates, but I am can't say for sure. I do know that the
> PSI gives you a clickable "update" feature that does one of a couple things:
> does the update automagically / auto downloads the update for you to install
> / or sends you to an update page.
>
> I have seen quite a few desktop apps that do the same thing, but never
> encountered anything at the corporate or even small biz level.
>
> --
> Rob Fuller | Mubix
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>
>
> On Fri, Sep 4, 2009 at 8:12 PM, Jody & Jennifer McCluggage <
> j2mccluggage at adelphia.net> wrote:
>
> >  Hello everyone,
> >
> >
> >
> > A few episodes ago Carlos made the excellent observation that many
> > organizations do not have a centrally controlled automated strategy for
> > patching 3rd party (non-Microsoft) applications on Windows.  He correctly
> > pointed out that Microsoft/Windows Update and WSUS does not patch 3rdparty applications.  As late as last year, the 
> > number one application attack
> > vector was Office.  But according to one recent survey, this year the number
> > one application attack vector were made up of some ubiquitous Adobe products
> > (probably not a surprise to anyone here) so obviously patching only
> > Microsoft products is no longer a viable solution.
> >
> >
> >
> > Does anyone have any recommendations of any products (commercial or open
> > source) that are appropriate for small to mid-size organizations that can
> > centrally deliver approved 3rd party application patches to Windows
> > machines?
> >
> >
> >
> > Thank you,
> >
> >
> >
> > Jody
> >
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