Patch Management - Advantages

Benefits:

• Transparency of what packages will be applied on what machines and when

• Consistency in what packages and to what versions will be updated

• Rollback script available by default to perform instance-level and cloud account-level rollbacks

• Patch presence and eligibility information that cannot be retrieved from the cloud providers' data

• Ability to match security-related packages to vulnerability scan results in one place

• Weekly or monthly reports on available upgradable packages

• Alerting to ticketing systems (JIRA, ServiceNow)