DeepSurface: Patches

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The patches report answers the question, If applied, applying which patches will reduce the most risk in my environment? By default, the main page of the patches report shows the top 100 patches that carry the most risk reduction potential in your environment. This can be filtered down to your liking (as described in the previous section) and clicking on any of the patch items in the report will bring you to the detail page for that patch.

Filtering

Host, patch, vulnerability, and vulnerability instance reprots all have robust filtering options. To learn more about filtering see the Filtering Section of the help documentation.

Exporting

Any report can be exported as an Excel spreadsheet or PDF. For more information on exporting, see the Exporting Section of the help documentation.

Detail View

Detail pages in general are discussed in the common elements section, but a patch detail page has some unique sections and elements that are discussed below:

1. The Summary Panel: the summary panel gives you a broad and high-level overview of what DeepSurface knows about a particular patch. Starting at the top, the summary panel tells you:

• A breakdown of all the vulnerability instances as a result of this patch not being applied everywhere it should
• A brief description of the patch from the vendor
• Any additional actions or newer patches that may be available
• High-level counts of affected hosts and addressed vulnerabilities
• A breakdown of the exploit status of all the vulnerabilities fixed by this patch
• A breakdown of the CVSS scores of all the vulnerabilities fixed by this patch

2. Hosts, vulnerabilities, and patch rollup: A list of all hosts that are missing this patch, as well as a list of all vulnerabilities that can be fixed by applying this patch can also be found on the "Risk and Remediation" tab. If there are more than 200 present of any of these categories, you can follow the link to take to the corresponding report, filtered by this patch. Often patches also supersede or "roll up" older patches. A list of all patches that a certain patch rolls up can also be found in this section.