Can't push updates remotely? You're hoping users click Install Later one fewer time than yesterday?
No Remote Management: Updates Are Optional
Critical security patches sit unapplied for weeks. Zero-day exploits stay open. Your compliance audit asks: Where's your patch management documentation?
User Choice Means No Security
Devices run outdated macOS versions for months
Security updates require IT to visit each desk
Remote employees never get updates
No visibility into patch compliance across fleet
Critical vulnerabilities remain exploitable indefinitely
Apple releases an emergency security update for a zero-day vulnerability actively being exploited. Your IT team sends an email: Please install the update immediately. A week later, you check manually. Maybe 30% complied. The rest? Too busy, device restarted overnight and they postponed, or they just ignored it. Imagine a healthcare clinic we worked with: HIPAA audit revealed that 60% of their Mac fleet was running macOS versions two years out of date. Multiple unpatched critical vulnerabilities. They had no idea because they had no remote visibility or control. The audit gave them 30 days to remediate or face penalties. They called us on day 3.
The Real Cost of Update Theater
Exploitable Vulnerabilities Stay Open
When patches are optional, they don't get applied. Zero-day exploits that Apple fixes within days stay exploitable on your fleet for weeks or months. Attackers know this, and unpatched Macs are easier targets than current systems.
No Compliance Documentation
Compliance frameworks require documented patch management processes and proof of timely updates. You can't send an email and call that documentation. Auditors want evidence: deployment timelines, patch compliance rates, exception handling processes. Without remote management, you have none of this.
Remote Employees Are Unmanaged
Shipping a Mac to a remote employee means shipping an unmanaged device. They're on their own for updates, security configurations, and app installations. You have zero visibility and zero control. That device is a security blind spot until it comes back to the office, if it ever does.
Support Tickets Multiply
Every update becomes a support interaction. Users call IT asking if they should install it. IT schedules time to visit desks or remote in. Meanwhile, users work on vulnerable systems because the update process is too complicated. IT becomes a bottleneck for basic security hygiene.
Silent Updates, Complete Visibility
We implement MDM-based remote management that pushes security updates, macOS upgrades, and configuration changes silently in the background. No user interaction required. Patches deploy automatically based on your schedule, testing on a pilot group first before rolling out to production. You get real-time compliance dashboards showing exactly which devices are current, which are pending, and which need attention.
Security updates deploy automatically once devices check in
macOS upgrades on your schedule, not user choice
Real-time patch compliance visibility
Works anywhere: office, remote, international
Audit-ready documentation of update deployments
IT freed from manual update management
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Make Updates Automatic, Not Optional
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