We’re proud to share that Action1 has been recognized in the Expert Insights Cybersecurity Excellence Awards—Fall 2025 as an IT Management Leader, listed in the Top 10 Patch Management Software solutions for business.
The awards honor the most innovative and effective solutions across key cybersecurity and IT management categories. Winners are selected by Expert Insights’ independent editorial and technical research teams based on product performance, customer feedback, analyst insights, and market visibility. Since 2018, the award has celebrated solutions that lead the way in innovation, usability, and impact.
What Expert Insights Highlighted About Action1
Our cloud-native autonomous endpoint management platform impressed the Expert Insights team, who named Action1 among the leaders by highlighting two standout features that address critical business needs:
- Fast Setup with Lightweight Agent: Deploying Action1 takes about 5 minutes to create an account, install the lightweight agent, and start patching your endpoints. Organizations can easily install the software without needing complex infrastructure settings or investing in additional hardware configurations. Action1’s cloud-native architecture eliminates the need for VPN connectivity, allowing you to keep your on-premises and remote endpoints up-to-date from anywhere, directly from the browser.
- Update Rings for Risk-Free Deployments: This feature enables autonomous, staged patch rollouts that minimize downtime risks and disruptions. Updates advance from inner to outer rings based on predefined success metrics, ensuring only reliable patches move forward while problematic ones don’t. This way, organizations can confidently deploy updates without fearing operational disruptions or negative impact on team productivity. Deployments can be scheduled for convenient times outside business hours.
More Reasons Action1 Earned Its Place:
- Extensive Third-Party Application Coverage: Action1 automates patching for numerous software titles on Windows and macOS based on filters (severity, vendor, etc.) with real-time progress status. The platform provides 99% coverage for typical enterprise environments, including Adobe, Chrome, Zoom, and hundreds of other applications. Our privately managed secure software repository is maintained by a team of experts who test each patch and update for reliability and security before they reach your endpoints.
- Clear Vulnerability and Compliance Data: The platform’s dashboard highlights the vulnerability and compliance status of your endpoints in real-time. All identified software weaknesses are prioritized based on their criticality, CVE details, CVSS scores, and potential business impact. This way, you can address the most critical vulnerabilities first before moving on to less severe ones.
- Free for Up to 200 Endpoints: Fully featured, with no functional limits, forever. This allows SMBs to use our software at no cost, while large enterprises can thoroughly test it before purchase to verify that it meets their specific requirements and solves their biggest patch management challenges.
Want to learn more? Check out the full Action1 review by Expert Insights: https://expertinsights.com/it-management/action1-review
Action1—Patching That Just Works
Action1 fully automates patch deployment and vulnerability remediation across your entire infrastructure, managing both on-premises and remote endpoints from one unified console.
Once installed, which takes about 5 minutes, the software immediately identifies and prioritizes all existing vulnerabilities across your devices by risk level.
Action1 then provides you with a list of missing patches ready for deployment in order to swiftly reduce the attack surface across your devices and strengthen your company’s overall security posture. To avoid any unexpected downtime, the software offers flexible scheduling, testing features, and update approval/decline capabilities at the organizational level.
Since the platform is cloud-native, you can patch your Windows OS and macOS endpoints and their third-party applications from anywhere using your browser without needing a VPN connection.
On top of that, Action1 has its own software repository, ensuring only reliable updates reach your endpoints. To eliminate bandwidth constraints, the platform uses P2P patch distribution, where patches and updates are downloaded only once and then shared across your endpoints, allowing even large updates to be automatically deployed in minutes without negatively impacting your business operations.
The software maintains compliance with globally recognized security standards and regulations such as SOC 2 Type II, ISO 27001, TX-RAMP, CSA, CISA Secure by Design, CAIQ, NIST, and GDPR. Action1 not only delivers excellent results in autonomously remediating vulnerabilities and keeping your devices up-to-date, but also helps you stay compliant with strict regulatory standards by allowing you to generate comprehensive reports with just a few clicks after each patch deployment.
Your Voice Shapes Action1
What makes our platform successful isn’t just our technology or our talented team, but our community. We’ve always been a feedback-driven company, and we genuinely appreciate when customers vote on our roadmap for future feature releases and share their thoughts with us. What matters most to us is knowing that the constant improvements we make to Action1 solve real-world problems that organizations of all sizes face daily.
Thank you for being an integral part of Action1’s journey toward making cybersecurity more accessible and effective for everyone. Your trust and feedback drive us forward.
About Action1
Action1 is an autonomous endpoint management platform trusted by many Fortune 500 companies. Cloud-native, infinitely scalable, highly secure, and configurable in 5 minutes—it just works and is always free for the first 200 endpoints, with no functional limits. By pioneering autonomous OS and third-party patching with peer-to-peer patch distribution and real-time vulnerability assessment without needing a VPN, it eliminates routine labor, preempts ransomware and security risks, and protects the digital employee experience.
In 2025, Action1 was recognized by Inc. 5000 as the fastest-growing private software company in America. The company is founder-led by Alex Vovk and Mike Walters, American entrepreneurs who previously founded Netwrix, a multi-billion-dollar cybersecurity company.
