About Patch Management

Kaspersky Next allows you to manage updates for the applications installed on your users' devices running Windows, including patches that fix software vulnerabilities detected on the devices.

This feature is available only if you activated Kaspersky Next under a Kaspersky Next EDR Optimum or XDR Expert license.

Kaspersky Next starts searching for applicable updates only after you define a vulnerability detection schedule.

You can view the list of detected updates and configure update installation.

You can approve updates that must be installed and skip updates that must not be installed. You can also revoke an update approval, for example, if the update installation resulted in application malfunction.

If an update for an application cannot be installed because this application is currently running, the device user is prompted to close the software. Further actions depend on the user response:

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