Automox

Automox is autonomous endpoint management covering patching, configuration and control of Windows, macOS and Linux endpoints from the cloud, with the stated aim of winning hours back and eliminating risk through automation.

Treating all three operating systems as first-class is what distinguishes Automox from the incumbents, and it matches how organisations actually look now. Patching tools grew out of Windows fleet management and treat Mac and Linux as afterthoughts, which leaves engineering laptops and Linux servers outside the process entirely, and those are frequently the machines with the most sensitive access.

The security argument Automox makes is the correct framing of what patching is for: the best way to prevent attacks is to avoid them, and the attack surface keeps expanding while the window between a vulnerability being disclosed and being exploited keeps shrinking. Patch speed is therefore a security control rather than a maintenance chore, which is the shift this category has been making for a decade.

Being cloud-native rather than requiring on-premises infrastructure matters more than it once did, because endpoints are no longer inside a corporate network where a management server can reach them. A laptop at home checks in over the internet or not at all. Patch OS is priced at 1 dollar per endpoint per month, with an annual commitment saving 25 percent, and configuration and control capabilities sit alongside it in the platform.