Auto Healing: Automated Vulnerability Remediation

Our new feature "Auto Healing" allows you to automatically fix up to 80% of your customers' internal vulnerabilities.

Lywand extends its Security Audit Platform with Auto Healing

Automated vulnerability remediation reduces required measures and supports IT service providers in patch management

Lywand has added a new feature to its channel-exclusive SaaS solution for automated security scans, which is now available: Auto Healing is able to independently fix vulnerabilities discovered during an internal scan.

This significantly reduces the list of necessary measures for IT service providers. It also helps them to minimise the attack surface of their SME customers. This feature is included in the licence price for users.

Auto Healing is now available to IT service providers who use Lywand for their customers. Vulnerabilities that previously required measures to be taken after scanning the internal infrastructure are now automatically closed immediately after the security check.

The following applications are currently supported:

  • Microsoft Windows Suite (Windows, Microsoft Office, etc.)

  • Java (JRE)

  • Mozilla Firefox

  • Foxit Reader

IT service providers can activate Auto Healing separately in the settings for individual customers and customise it as required. They can decide for which applications and in which cases - e.g. only for minor updates - Auto Healing should apply. They can also set whether the feature should be automatically activated for certain clients or servers. The actions performed by Auto Healing are displayed in the dashboard and can be tracked in a detailed view.

In the "Renovation Plan", in which Lywand lists the measures required after the scan, such measures are no longer listed, which reduces the workload for IT service providers. Auto Healing is a helpful addition to their patch management and helps them minimise the attack surface of their customers.

High-quality security services for SME customers

"We want to support IT service providers in providing their small and medium-sized business customers with high-quality security services as easily as possible," explains Tom Haak, CEO of Lywand. "We therefore work closely with the user community, who can leave suggestions for practical features in our Feature Request Portal," continues Haak.

"Auto Healing, as well as the recent integration to Datto's ticketing system, are the results of our dialogue and illustrate our efforts to keep workflows for IT service providers as lean as possible and to constantly simplify them. In the future, Auto Healing will be extended to other applications," reveals Tom Haak.

Tom Haak, CEO Lywand Software GmbH

Experiences from the partner community

Goesys AG, one of the leading system houses in the southern Lower Saxony region based in Göttingen and a Lywand partner since 2022, has already been able to try out the new feature in the test phase.

"We have added Lywand to our portfolio because it enables us to improve the service we provide to our customers and reduce our administrative overhead," explains Andreas Kuchenbuch, CEO at Goesys.

"Auto Healing, i.e. the automatic elimination of security vulnerabilities in applications such as Java, which are often used as part of third-party software, gives us the opportunity to take our service to a new level. Our work becomes more efficient and effective, which directly benefits our customers: Internal vulnerabilities are quickly eliminated, which significantly improves their IT security," continues Kuchenbuch.

Andreas Kuchenbuch

Auto Healing is available to users starting with version 1.5.14 of the Lywand Agent at no additional cost.

Thomas Haak

December 4, 2023

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