USE CASE

Patch Management

Enhance workspace security with rapid automated patch management. Analyze the impact of updates to ensure faster deployment cycles while maintaining compliance and resilience. Minimize downtime for both IT teams and end users.  

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Swift deployment for enhanced security

In today’s digital landscape, organizations face constant cyber threats, making it essential to deploy security patches swiftly. Delays in patch rollout can leave your environment vulnerable, jeopardizing data integrity and customer trust. 

The UK’s largest building society faced challenges when relying on manual update processes, which were time-consuming and disruptive. With automated patch management, the organization reduced rollout time from weeks to days, significantly improving its security posture. 

Rimo3 enables rapid testing and deployment of security patches across your Windows operating environment and applications, whether in the cloud, on-premises, or hybrid. By automating patch testing, organizations can reduce the time it takes to deploy updates, minimizing the window of vulnerability and enhancing overall security. 

Minimizing the window of vulnerability.
Minimizing the window of vulnerability.

Test and deploy patches with confidence

Testing patches against your unique IT environment can be complex and time-consuming, often leading to deployment delays and potential security risks. 

The building society utilized Rimo3 to automate impact analysis allowing for: 

  • Faster deployment cycles  
  • Continuous compliance with security standards.  
  • Transformation of its patch management process, reducing downtime and ensuring consistent security updates 

Rimo3 allows enterprises to assess patches against specific environment in minutes, not hours or days. By comparing changes against baseline performance, you can understand the potential impact on user productivity before deployment. This proactive approach ensures that patches are deployed confidently, without compromising user experience. 

Integration with ITSM processes

Integrating patch management with existing IT Service Management (ITSM) processes can be challenging, especially when trying to maintain efficiency and compliance. 

The building society used the Rimo3 API to integrate patch management with its existing systems, enabling automated testing and deployment processes that supported broader ITSM strategies. This integration ensured continuous compliance while freeing up resources. 

The extensible public API offered by Rimo3 easily integrates with organizations’ ITSM processes, allowing for seamless communication between systems and streamlined operations. This integration helps maintain and demonstrate compliance with cybersecurity standards by capturing and providing an audit trail with results. This avoids unnecessary insurance rate increases and recovering budgets for critical projects. 

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Continuous management for evergreen workspaces

Maintaining an evergreen IT environment requires ongoing patch management to ensure security and performance across the application estate. Manual testing processes are often inefficient and prone to error. 

By adopting a continuous management approach, the UK building society was able to: 

  • Maintain evergreen workspaces 
  • Consistently apply security updates with minimal disruption 
  • Improve its security posture  
  • Increase overall productivity by eliminating manual testing inefficiencies 

The Rimo3 platform allows for quick analysis of your application estate to assess the impact of patches before they are deployed. By automating this process, you can remove the inefficiencies of manual testing and ensure that your environment is always up-to-date and secure. This continuous management approach supports the creation of evergreen workspaces, ready for deployment in under a week. 

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