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Introducing SolarWinds Patch Manager

You’ll change your tune about patch management after you experience how much time SolarWinds Patch Manager can save you! We even provide you with pre-built, pre-tested, third-party patches and make them super easy for you to deploy to your Windows servers and workstations. • Automate patching applications across tens of thousands of servers and workstations • Receive automatic notifications of new third-party patches from leading vendors like Adobe®, Apple®, Google®, Mozilla®, and Sun Microsystems®; then deploy our pre-built, pre-tested patches to save tons of time • Use PackageBoot™ technology to execute custom actions before and after patches are deployed so that you can rest assured that even the peskiest of patches gets deployed correctly (and doesn’t break anything in the process) • Manage updates dynamically, pushing the right patches to the right machines at the right time • Perform enterprise-wide discovery and inventory quickly and identify rogue, unauthorized, and unpatched computers instantly • Get visibility into patch compliance with an extensive collection of simple, built-in reports • Leverage your existing WSUS and System Center Configuration Manager (SCCM) deployments

Apples can be infected too!

One of the Apple's marketing lines for Macs has been that they do not suffer from the same virus infections that PCs have. This clearly has nothing to do with Macs being more stable than PCs, it is because fewer people own Macs than own PCs. Cyber-criminals are looking to infect as many machines as possible because this is how they create profit