Adaptiva, a global leader in autonomous endpoint management, has officially announced the launch of a new integration with the industry-leading AI-native CrowdStrike Falcon® XDR platform named OneSite Patch for Crowdstrike. According to certain reports, the stated integration is purposed around helping organizations quickly address critical vulnerabilities, capable of addressing weaklings for Windows and more than 1,500 third-party applications. As for how it does so, the answer resides in its ability to leverage CrowdStrike’s rich vulnerability insights from Falcon Exposure Management, including real-time ExPRT Rating and Exploit Status. This it does to determine patch priorities, severity, and scheduling, thus ensuring that all critical issues are patched immediately. Furthermore, it can configure patching automations and controls to remediate vulnerabilities according to unique business rules and schedules. Talk about the whole value proposition on a slightly deeper level, we begin from the promise of risk-based prioritization. Here, like we discussed the platform basically allows you to deploy critical patches immediately with CrowdStrike ExPRT rating filters that, on their part, can accelerate patch deployment with precision. Next up, we must get into those patch analytics in play that make it possible for users to monitor patching progress and compliance status through real-time visibility of patching metrics, trends, and risk exposure. Moving on to tiered deployment, it tends to create phased patch deployment tailored as per specific user groups or system types. These deployments also let you schedule with dynamic maintenance windows for an optimal outcome.
“OneSite Patch for CrowdStrike bridges the gap between identifying vulnerabilities and rapidly remediating them to protect organizations from potential threats,” said Dr. Deepak Kumar, Founder and CEO at Adaptiva. “By integrating CrowdStrike’s rich vulnerability data and threat intelligence with Adaptiva’s autonomous patching, our joint customers can automatically patch what matters with precision. This deep level of integration and control allows organizations to eliminate attack surfaces at scale while also improving compliance, collaboration, and accountability between security and IT Teams.”
Then, we have a dedicated device group management mechanism, which allows you to apply specific settings, maintenance windows, and rollout processes to groups of endpoints that, markedly enough, share common attributes, including business purpose, location, or set of end-users. Joining the same is a set of flex controls that help administrators instantly pause, cancel, or rollback any deployment. Rounding up highlights would be a facility for custom approvals. This facility has its utility rooted in defining and editing specific patch deployment approval settings, schedules, and automated notifications for IT and security teams so to mirror specific organizational policies.
The development in question delivers a rather interesting follow-up to one research, which revealed that over 60% of organizations still take two weeks or more just to initiate a patch deployment. The timeframe is so lengthy because security teams use assessment tools to identify vulnerabilities and before sharing the data with IT departments, who then manually patch endpoints. Not just the manual aspect, though, several siloed processes also enter the fray here to cause delays in patching, as well as a lack of visibility that eventually exposes organizations to cyberattacks.
Founded in 2011, Adaptiva’s rise stems from an ability to expedite the whole process of patching and managing endpoints at scale. This ability of the company is currently stretched across solutions like IT Efficiency, Infrastructure Elimination, Autonomous Endpoint Management, Zero-touch, Always-on Patch Management, SCCM add-on, Peer-to-Peer Technology, and other related areas. As for Adaptiva’s excellence in delivering these solutions, it can be understood once you consider that the company has already deployed well over 1500 third-party applications and licensed more than 10 million endpoints, all while serving 250+ enterprise customers.