Understanding Patch Severity Levels

Patch severity indicates how urgent it is to deploy that patch to a system.

The Impact field in the Patch Properties window lets you determine the severity of a patch. The following patch severity levels are available for assignment.

Severity Level

Description

Critical

Ivanti Software or the product manufacturer has determined that this patch is critical and should be installed as soon as possible. Most of the recent security updates fall in to this category. The patches for this category are automatically downloaded and stored on your Ivanti Patch and Remediation server.

Critical - 01

Ivanti Software or the product manufacturer has determined that this patch is critical and should be installed as soon as possible. This patch is older than 30 days and has not been superseded.

Critical - 05

Ivanti Software or the product manufacturer has determined that this patch is critical and should be installed as soon as possible. These patches have been superseded.

Critical - Intl

An international patch, where Ivanti Software or the product manufacturer has determined that this patch is critical and should be installed as soon as possible. Most of the recent international security updates fall in to this category. After 30 days international patches in this category will be moved to Critical - 01.

Service Packs

Collections of software fixes and enhancements that apply to installed software.

Software Installers

Installers for third party software.

Updates

Non-critical updates to installed software.

Detection Only

These security content items contain signatures that are common to multiple vulnerabilities. They contain no associated patches and are only used in the detection process.

Informational

These security content items detect a condition that Ivanti Software or the product manufacturer has determined as informational. If the report has an associated package, you may want to install it at your discretion.

Policies

These security content items apply security policies to an endpoint.

Recommended

Ivanti Software or the product manufacturer has determined that these security content items, while not critical or security related is useful and should be applied to maintain the health of your computers.

Task

These security content items contain tasks which administrators may use to run various detection or deployment tasks across their network.

Virus Removal

This security content items contain packages which administrators may use to run various virus detections across their network. Anti- Virus tools and updates are included in this category.