Introduction

Flexera's Software Vulnerability Manager is a software vulnerability and patch management solution that facilitates a customized patch management process. It combines vulnerability and threat intelligence, end point assessment, and patch creation and publishing enable an informed and rapid patch management.

Software Vulnerability Manager can assess software vulnerabilities for both Microsoft and non-Microsoft (third-party) product vulnerabilities covering Microsoft Windows, macOS, and Red Hat Enterprise Linux. The results of this assessment are connected to our vulnerability and threat intelligence to allow for effective prioritization. Finally, third party patches may be created and published to remediate endpoints using Microsoft® WSUS (often in conjunction with System Center Configuration Manager), via Microsoft® Intune, VMware® Workspace One, or BigFix.

SVM Patch Publisher inherits its current functionalities from the Patch Daemon. SVM Patch Publisher enables you to configure connections to the SVM server and to the supported end point management systems. The tool polls SVM on a configured frequency to look for new patches resulting either from a manual publish or Patch Automation to publish patches to the specified end point management system.