Patching Compliance Dashboard: Scale with Cloud and AI Endpoints, Evidenced Monthly

Built for the IT Director or compliance officer who has to produce patch compliance evidence for an auditor or a cyber insurer and currently assembles it by hand from three consoles. This engagement will eliminate the manual effort of producing patch evidence and improve the measured compliance percentage it reports.

Who this is for

Organizations with a recurring obligation to evidence patching: a cyber insurance renewal, an ISO or SOC audit, a customer security questionnaire, or a regulator. The IT Director usually patches adequately; the problem is proving it. Evidence is currently pulled from Intune, Azure Update Manager, and a third-party tool, reconciled in a spreadsheet, and it takes days each cycle.

What we deliver

• A unified compliance view across endpoints, servers, and third-party applications, reconciling Microsoft Intune, Azure Update Manager, and Microsoft Defender vulnerability data into one denominator so the compliance percentage means something.
• Monthly attestation-ready evidence packs: compliance percentage by asset class, patches applied, outstanding vulnerabilities by severity and age, and the trend, in a form that goes to an auditor without rework.
• Exception tracking with an owner and an expiry date per exception, so a deferred patch is a recorded decision that resurfaces rather than a permanent silent gap.
• Remediation of the reporting gaps found during onboarding, typically devices reporting to nothing, servers absent from update management, and third-party applications with no patch mechanism at all.

Outcomes our customers see

One customer cut evidence preparation from roughly 30 hours per audit cycle to under 1 hour. Reconciling the three sources lifted measured compliance from a reported 82 percent to a true 97 percent, because 15 percent of the gap was devices missing from the denominator rather than unpatched. Onboarding across 1,600 seats found 210 devices reporting to no update management service at all.

How this compares

The denominator is the point. Most patch compliance reporting measures the devices it can see, which means the number improves whenever a device falls off management. Reconciling Intune, Azure Update Manager, and Defender inventory against Microsoft Entra ID device records produces a true denominator, and the first month's report is usually worse than the customer's existing number and considerably more useful. Exception expiry is the other piece: an exception without a date is a permanent gap wearing a temporary label.

Architecture and Microsoft alignment

Data is collected from Microsoft Intune device compliance and Windows Update for Business reports, Azure Update Manager for servers including Azure Arc-connected machines, Microsoft Defender for Endpoint vulnerability management for third-party application patch state, and Microsoft Entra ID device records for the authoritative asset denominator. Data lands in a Log Analytics workspace in your tenant and is presented through a Power BI report, so the evidence pack is traceable to source rather than a static export. Aligned to the Microsoft solution plays Scale with Cloud and AI Endpoints and Modern SecOps with Unified Platform.

Plans

Plans, prices, and full scope per plan are on the Plans tab of this listing.

Prerequisites

Microsoft Intune and Microsoft Defender for Endpoint licensing, Azure Arc onboarding for servers outside Azure, a Log Analytics workspace, Power BI licensing for report recipients, and Global Reader plus Intune Administrator read access. Devices absent from all management are identified during onboarding, and onboarding them is a prerequisite we scope rather than assume.

Limitations

This service reports and evidences patch compliance and remediates reporting gaps. It does not perform the patching itself, which is covered by the Azure managed service or the endpoint management offer. Applications with no vendor patch mechanism are reported as exceptions rather than remediated. Non-Windows platforms are covered only where Defender for Endpoint supports them.

How to buy

Buy through the Azure portal, using Get it in Azure portal on this listing, so the purchase is billed through your existing Microsoft agreement. Private offers on request.

Next step

Get it now in the Azure portal, or request a private offer if the scope or the price needs adjusting first.