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Survey: Lack of Automated Patch Management is a Key Security Risk for Remote IT Operations

Houston, Texas, November 29, 2021

Action1 Corporation, a cloud-based remote monitoring and management (RMM) solution provider, today released its 2021 Remote IT Management Challenges Report. Based on the feedback from 491 IT professionals worldwide, the study explores how organizations patch and manage their remote and office-based endpoints and provide employees with remote IT support.

The report reveals that even though most organizations plan to keep at least some remote work in 2022, they struggle to secure and support their remote or hybrid workforce. 78% of respondents admitted experiencing delays in patching critical vulnerabilities during the past year, and 62% suffered security incidents involving a known vulnerability that had not been mitigated even though a patch was available. Indeed, most organizations lack robust patch management: 14% manage all patches manually and 59% automate OS patching only.

Other findings of the survey include:

  • Patching takes 2.5 longer when endpoints are remote.
  • The top barrier to effective patch management (cited by 38% of respondents) is the inability to manage updates in one place and prioritize them effectively.
  • 77% of organizations experienced security incidents during the past year; the most common causes were malware (41%) and phishing (31%) attacks.
  • 35% of organizations are unable to spot unwanted software on their remote endpoints.
  • Resolving IT support requests takes twice as long when employees are remote.

Modern organizations use more applications than ever, and all of them can have vulnerabilities that hackers can exploit. With vendors issuing updates at a rapid rate, it is essential to automate patching for both OS and third-party software.
Mike Walters, President and co-founder of Action1.

To read the report, please visit: www.action1.com/2021-remote-it-management-challenges-report/

About Action1

Action1 is the provider of the #1 secure and easy-to-use risk-based patch management solution that delivers real-time visibility into vulnerabilities and IT assets. It delivers security risk mitigation via policy-based patching and deployment of OS and third-party software, and includes a remote desktop compliant with modern privacy laws. The company was founded by Netwrix cybersecurity veterans Alex Vovk and Mike Walters in 2018 to give companies and MSPs worldwide a modern and secure alternative to legacy on-premises solutions that do not function in hybrid workforce environments.

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