What Are the Recommended Best Practices for Patching in Automox?

Automox offers a variety of templates to create policies that conform to our best practice recommendations. These templates are available from our Next steps guide (available on the dashboard in the console), or you can use these links to quickly create these policies within your environment.

Cross-OS

Cross-OS - Patch Browsers - Ensure web browsers are secure and updated

Cross-OS - Third-Party Updates - Apply updates to all supported third-party software

Windows

Windows - Servicing Stack Updates - Ensure core patching can execute by keeping your servicing stack up-to-date

Windows - Security Definitions Updates - Apply security definition updates for Windows

Windows - First-Party Updates - Apply first-party Windows updates 7 days after their release date

Windows - Microsoft Office KB updates - Ensure Microsoft Office packages are secure and updated

Windows - Feature Upgrades - Apply feature updates for Windows Workstations

macOS

macOS - Security Definitions Updates - Apply security definition updates for macOS

macOS - First-Party Updates - Apply first-party macOS updates 7 days after their release date

Linux

Linux - First Party Updates Not Requiring a Restart - Apply updates to Linux packages that do not require a restart

Linux - First Party Updates Requiring a Restart - Apply updates to Linux packages that require a restart

Linux - Apply All Updates - Apply updates to all Linux packages

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