| KACE and Lumension Security Forge Partnership to Deliver Comprehensive Patch Management for the Medium Enterprise |
KACE, the leading systems management appliance company, today announced a partnership with Lumension Security™, a global leader in security management solutions, to provide KACE customers enterprise-class patch management capabilities within its comprehensive, easy-to-use, and affordably priced appliances. By embedding Lumension's award-winning PatchLink® assessment and remediation technology into the KBOX Systems Management Appliance, KACE can now offer its customers access to the industry's leading patch management engine, as well as the world's largest vulnerability metadata database.
In conjunction with this announcement, KACE announced the latest releases of its KBOX Systems Management and Systems Deployment Appliances.
"This partnership mutually benefits KACE and Lumension," said Marty Kacin, KACE president, CTO, and co-founder. "Lumension further expands its market reach by extending the same powerful patch and remediation engine used in PatchLink Update™ to a more comprehensive systems management appliance within the KBOX. In addition, KACE dramatically enhances the KBOX's patching capabilities through more robust, heterogeneous, and timely patch management support from the recognized industry leader in vulnerability assessment and remediation. For KBOX customers, this partnership makes the all-in-one leading systems management appliance even more dynamic when it comes to protecting their IT environment."
By embedding Lumension's PatchLink technology in to the award-winning KBOX Systems Management Appliance, KACE helps medium enterprises further realize enterprise-class scale and patch management capabilities at a much lower cost than software-only systems management packages. For system administrators, the partnership not only provides them access to the most comprehensive set of systems management activities in an appliance, but also offers the ability to drive all related activities - from deployment to retirement - from a single, easy-to-use appliance, user interface, and agent, thereby increasing efficiency and reducing the burden of having to login in to multiple systems and learning to use multiple user interfaces, thus greatly improving efficiency.
Lumension's PatchLink assessment and remediation engine, embedded within the KACE KBOX Systems Management Appliance, is the same proven technology embedded in Lumension's PatchLink Update, which enables organizations to manage the entire vulnerability management lifecycle through broad application and platform support, rapid vulnerability assessment and remediation, scalability, and unmatched accuracy and audit. In addition, Lumension's technology offers the industry's only patented Fingerprinting™ Technology that provides highly accurate and efficient assessment and monitoring of security updates. PatchLink Update is used in over 4,000 organizations worldwide to continuously monitor the network to ensure all desktops, servers, laptops, and other systems are patched and in compliance with corporate policies.
According to a recent survey by King Research, learning to effectively use multiple UIs is a leading obstacle to efficient systems management. In fact, IT organizations report a large number of disparate user-interfaces (six on average) are in use for systems and security management, which creates obvious user challenges in learning and using the tools effectively.
"Patching and remediation remain critical to protecting valuable IT resources and closing security holes that could put critical data and systems at risk," said Rich Hlavka, senior vice president of Business Development at Lumension Security. "By integrating our policy-based, best-of-breed patching and remediation technology into the powerful KBOX appliance, we are empowering organizations to cost-effectively manage and control their valuable IT resources, while protecting networks against increasing threats. In addition, this partnership allows KACE to provide the medium enterprise the IT prowess and agility usually reserved for much larger companies."
KACE's KBOX Family of Appliances saves its customers both time and money. Systems managers from medium enterprises are often forced to wear many hats throughout the day to work on countless IT functions. KACE helps consolidate these functions, providing a single appliance for all of their projects while delivering easy-to-use, comprehensive systems management that is affordable. KBOX Systems Management Appliances fulfills all of the systems management needs of a medium enterprise, including initial discovery, distribution, patching, configuration, security, asset management, helpdesk and reporting. KBOX Systems Deployment Appliances fulfills all of the systems provisioning needs of a medium enterprise including inventory assessment, OS deployment, application distribution, configuration and recovery.
"We are thrilled to hear about this new alliance," said Michael Williams, director of IT for Dexter School. "We already benefit from KACE's highly innovative appliances for addressing our unique software deployment challenges. With the addition of Lumension PatchLink, we will now have instant access to the world's largest patch repository all through a single user interface, conveniently embedded within our KBOX appliance."
About KACE
KACE™ is the leading systems management appliance company. The award-winning KBOX™ family of appliances delivers easy-to-use, comprehensive systems management capabilities. KACE customers usually install in one day at one third the cost of software alternatives.
About Lumension Security™, Inc.
Lumension Security, a company formed by the combination of PatchLink® Corporation and SecureWave® S.A., is a recognized, global security management company, providing unified protection and control of enterprise endpoints for more than 5,100 customers and 14 million nodes worldwide. Leveraging its proven Positive Security Model, Lumension enables organizations to effectively manage risk at the endpoint by delivering best-of-breed, policy-based solutions that simplify the entire security management lifecycle. This includes automated asset discovery, vulnerability assessment, remediation and validation; application and device control; extensive policy compliance reporting; and integration with leading network access control solutions. Headquartered in Scottsdale, Arizona, Lumension has offices worldwide, including Virginia, Florida, Luxembourg, the United Kingdom, Spain, Australia, Hong Kong and Singapore. PatchLink, now Lumension, was founded in 1991 by Sean Moshir.
About AfricaSD
AfricaSD is the Sub-Saharan Lumension Security Solutions Distributor, and always offers customers and reseller partners the very best security awareness, forums, consulting, and security training certifications. AfricaSD focuses on forming long-lasting partnerships with its clients, from initial assessment, to implementation and ongoing support. AfricaSD works side-by-side with its clients throughout the entire technology life cycle and is proud of its large customer base, which includes several sub-Saharan SME's, enterprises and government departments. True 24 x 7 x 365 support is available on all AfricaSD total e-security solutions. The firm's technical staff are fully certified and trained on the entire product range and offer a combination of one-to-one help and a wealth of technological resources. For further information, visit the company's website www.africasd.com or contact them on +27 (0) 12 665-2513, or at asd@africasd.com.
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