Rapid7 announced the release of Active Patching, a fully automated patching and remediation solution integrated into Rapid7’s Exposure Command solution.
Powered by Automox, Active Patching empowers security and IT teams to proactively mitigate risk across vulnerable assets. The pace at which attackers exploit zero-day vulnerabilities and misconfigurations continues to accelerate. At the same time, traditional patching methods often leave critical gaps due to delays, complexity, and limited coverage. Active Patching within Exposure Command addresses this challenge by automating risk remediation and providing continuous, real-time visibility into which systems require patches and which have no available fixes. Powered by Automox’s Autonomous Endpoint Management platform, this new solution provides security and IT teams with another powerful way to prioritize effectively and accelerate response times with Exposure Command. The result is a proactive and compliant security posture that addresses vulnerabilities head-on.
“The visibility and context Exposure Command delivers is unmatched—it’s not just about seeing where you're vulnerable, it's about knowing exactly what to do next,” said Craig Adams, Chief Product Officer at Rapid7. “We’ve built a platform that doesn’t just highlight risk—it contextualizes it. Active Patching is another way that Rapid7’s Command Platform turns insights into action, enabling teams to automatically remediate vulnerabilities or apply compensating controls in real time, even when a patch doesn’t exist. That’s the difference between reactively managing vulnerabilities and proactively eliminating exposures.”
Active Patching augments Exposure Command’s complete attack surface visibility, native and third-party vulnerability management, and enriched threat intelligence, with automated patching and remediation capabilities from Automox, providing organizations the following:
- Impact-driven, scalable mitigation: Efficiently reduce risk and eliminate manual processes by automating remediation actions across multiple assets at once.
- Threat intelligence embedded into every finding: Remediate risks automatically and with confidence by knowing which vulnerabilities impact mission-critical assets by combining contextual insights, dynamic risk scores, and actionable threat intelligence from Rapid7 Labs.
- Actionable risk acceptance: Protect assets without known fixes via an expansive array of pre-built virtual patching templates that can help automatically configure endpoints and prevent attacks targeting unpatched systems.
- Automated remediation workflows: Leverage hundreds of out-of-box actions to automate risk remediation, drive compliance, and respond to vulnerabilities faster.
- Closed-loop vulnerability management: Continuously view the status of all deployed patches to establish trust that vulnerabilities have been properly mitigated.
- Unmatched patching and configuration coverage: Automate fixes across almost any device, including Linux, macOS, and Windows operating systems and their third-party software.
“Modern security demands more than just knowing where you’re exposed—it requires the ability to take action, fast. Our partnership with Rapid7 brings that capability to life,” said Jason Kikta, CISO and Senior Vice President, Product at Automox. “By embedding our patch and configuration automation technology into Exposure Command, we’re enabling customers to go from identification to remediation in a matter of minutes, dramatically reducing risk while eliminating manual overhead.”
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