Exciting News! CloudLinux Welcomes Patchman Service to Our Family!
Automated vulnerability patching and malware removal.
Hosting providers suffer on a daily basis from the consequences of the many security vulnerabilities found in commonly used CMS's such as WordPress, Drupal and Joomla.
Patchman detects these vulnerabilities and is able to safely patch them without assistance from your customer. Because of our unique approach, you can also be rest assured that websites will continue to function properly.
On compromised hosting accounts, Patchman detects uploaded malware and automatically quarantines it for you.
We believe that educating your customers is an important aspect to security.
Patchman makes it easy to set up automatic workflows to inform your customers of security incidents. For example, you could setup the following workflow:
Patchman was built with hosting providers specifically in mind.
It literally takes 60 seconds to start scanning for vulnerabilities and malware. Here's a few more examples of how we will make your life a lot easier:
"Being able to pro-actively mitigate abuse on our shared servers saves us time and money, as well as helping to keep the internet cleaner. Patchman fixed a problem that was causing us headaches."
— Michele Neylon, CEO, Blacknight Internet Solutions (Ireland)
You and your customers have access to a super easy to use web application. For you, it's a piece of cake to set up, configure, monitor and maintain deployments from one to thousands of servers. Your customers get a private panel to review unresolved issues and fix them.
The following statistics and claims are based on third-party research and case studies with customers of Patchman.
On a monthly basis, 1 to 5 percent of your websites are compromised. Hackers generally want to take advantage of your server's resources for spam runs, DDoS attacks, etc. However, it also exposes you to much more severe risks: root exploits, data loss, data theft, or worse. Each security breach costs you at least one to several hours in labour to resolve.
According to W3Techs, approximately 34% of the web runs on WordPress, Joomla or Drupal. For average web hosting companies this number is actually much higher: 57%. Approximately 80% of these websites run an outdated version of their CMS. This leaves 46% of your websites exploitable through significant security vulnerabilities.
According to research by StopBadware and Commtouch, 28% of webmaster of whose website was compromised considers moving to a new provider. Webmasters blame the provider for the compromise, are unhappy with the (lack of) support they receive, are not able to resolve the issue themselves or are simply fed up with it and quit.
"One of the most time consuming problems we have had is dealing with old, vulnerable CMS and the fallout of customers sites being hacked. With Patchman this is a thing of the past, and long may it remain so."
— Andy Manning, Brand Director, UK2 Group (United Kingdom)
"Patchman simplifies and enhances our core product by automating maintenance tasks that left customers' websites vulnerable. This results in less incidents and greater customer satisfaction. We couldn't be happier."
— Myron Salant, Head of Product - Web Services, Gridhost (South Africa)
Patchman continuously detects the vulnerabilities in your customer's websites and is able to safely patch them without assistance from your customer. Because of our unique approach, you can also rest assured that websites will continue to function properly. Patchman also automatically cleans up malware for you.
Assuming each month at least 1% of your customers get hacked, you host 500 websites per server and it takes your team 120 minutes to resolve the issue, clean up the mess and assist affected customers. At an hourly rate of €20, Patchman saves you €200 per server per month in labour. And that's just your operational savings.
Your employees absolutely loath dealing with security breaches. It's an endless stream of mess to clean up. Ask them, they hate it and the work is unchallenging. Not to mention the furious customers that explode at them for suspending their account. Make employees and customers happier with Patchman and prevent churn.
New vulnerabilities are regularly found in CMS's like WordPress, Joomla and Drupal. Patchman extracts the security fixes from new releases and backports them to all earlier versions. Safely patch your websites with confidence.
Hackers generally hack websites to take advantage of your server's resources for spam runs, DDoS attacks, web shells, etc. We detect these malicious scripts and automatically quarantine them, so you don't need to clean up the mess.
We think an important aspect to security is educating your customers. We made it easy to automatically notify your customers of security incidents and outdated applications. We offer detailed background info on all vulnerabilities.
Patchman feels like magic. We understand this might make you or your customers feel a little anxious. Please rest assured you can roll back any change that Patchman executes.
We have optimized our installation and configuration process to make it as easy as possible for you to get started. Your first scan can take as little as 60 seconds.
By setting up automatic policies that define how Patchman should respond to specific situations, you save a lot of time. Automatically inform your customers, patch vulnerabilities, quarantine malware. It's set and forget!
We integrate with cPanel, Plesk and DirectAdmin. It recognizes the Admin-Reseller- User structure, so you can easily define who should be informed of issues. Your customers can access Patchman through their Control Panel.
One of the best features is that we built an incredibly easy to use and modern web application for you and your customers. Dealing with security is finally easy and approachable. You get one complete and clear overview of your platform.
Get in touch for volume pricing or if your platform is not based on cPanel, Plesk or DirectAdmin
"Patchman informs our customers about malware attacks and security vulnerabilities. If a customer needs assistance, we can automatically apply a patch for them. This helps to keeps our hosting platform safe for all of our customers.”
— Omar Benameur, BU Director Consumer & Small SMB, IT-Ernity (The Netherlands)
"I was pleasantly surprised how easy it was to start my first scan. It was even easier to start fixing vulnerabilities! It was such a relief for our team when we saw Patchman literally fixing thousands of vulnerabilities in the blink of an eye."
— Jesper Weiland, CEO, Exonet (The Netherlands)
Patchman runs on any flavor of Red Hat, CentOS, Debian and Ubuntu Linux systems. Both 32-bit and 64-bit systems are supported. Please note that Patchman requires a control panel. We support cPanel, Plesk and DirectAdmin.
Our latest update allows us to automatically patch vulnerabilities in popular plugins such as All-In-One SEO Pack, Contact Form 7, Google Sitemap Generator, Jetpack, TinyMCE Advanced, WordPress Importer, and WordPress SEO. We already patch vulnerabilities in for WordPress, Drupal, Joomla, WooCommerce, Magento, and PrestaShop. This covers virtually all large scale hack attempts and will take away the majority of the abuse you experience today. In addition, we are able to detect outdated versions of a growing list of applications found here.
We have a lot of experience with hosting environments. The scanning process has been optimized to be extremely lightweight, fast and only use freely available resources. Therefore it doesn't negatively impact your performance.
No - This is the unique part about Patchman. We only patch the specific security vulnerabilities and won't touch anything else. In comparison, updating the CMS as a whole usually results in a broken website due to plugins and themes depending on a specific version of the CMS.
Launched in early 2014, Patchman was created to simplify security for hosting providers. We recognized that abuse was a huge time drain in the company. Customers wouldn't keep their CMS up to date, and the resulting security vulnerabilities were being exploited at a rapidly growing pace to abuse the server's resources for spam runs, DDoS attacks and more. This had to stop, but it was a losing battle to get customers to update. So we designed a solution to proactively patch CMS vulnerabilities automatically, while cutting costs and increasing customer happiness. Say hello to Patchman.
Questions? Please e-mail sales@cloudlinux.com.
