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What is Automox?

Automox is an endpoint management solution from the company of the same name in Boulder. Cloud-based and globally available, Automox enforces OS & third-party patch management, security configurations, and custom scripting across Windows, Mac, and Linux from a single console.…

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Entry-level set up fee?

  • No setup fee
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Offerings

  • Free Trial
  • Free/Freemium Version
  • Premium Consulting/Integration Services

Starting price (does not include set up fee)

  • $1 per month per endpoint
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Product Details

What is Automox?

Automox is an IT automation platform for organizations used to keep Windows, macOS, and Linux endpoints patched, configured, controlled, and secured without servers or VPNs. It helps IT professionals to fix critical vulnerabilities faster, reduce complexity, and win back hours in their days.

Automox Features

  • Supported: OS Patching
  • Supported: Third Party Patching
  • Supported: Software Deployment
  • Supported: Vulnerability Remediation
  • Supported: BASH and PowerShell Scripting
  • Supported: Remote Control
  • Supported: Hardware and Software Inventory
  • Supported: Device Configuration
  • Supported: Reporting

Automox Technical Details

Deployment TypesSoftware as a Service (SaaS), Cloud, or Web-Based
Operating SystemsUnspecified
Mobile ApplicationNo
Supported CountriesGlobal
Supported LanguagesEnglish

Frequently Asked Questions

Automox is an endpoint management solution from the company of the same name in Boulder. Cloud-based and globally available, Automox enforces OS & third-party patch management, security configurations, and custom scripting across Windows, Mac, and Linux from a single console. With it, IT and SecOps can gain control and share visibility of on-prem, remote and virtual endpoints without the need to deploy costly infrastructure. Automox aims to reduce corporate risk while raising operational efficiency to deliver security outcomes faster, and with fewer resources.

Automox starts at $1.

Reviewers rate Usability highest, with a score of 8.7.

The most common users of Automox are from Mid-sized Companies (51-1,000 employees).
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Automox - It just works!

Rating: 9 out of 10
October 07, 2024
Verified User
Vetted Review
Verified User
Automox
3 years of experience
We use Automox to auto-deploy patching updates to our end devices, Mac, Windows, and Linux-based systems. We group devices based on their use case, i.e., Employee, Production, Server, etc. We can then manage urgency and granular updates as they relate to the individual business case. The autonomy of updates allows our system engineers to focus on creating new solutions and solving ongoing issues.
  • Auto-Patching.
  • Alerting
  • Remediations
We are a medium-sized business that needs a patching solution only occasionally, and Automox solves that requirement for us.

AutoMox is Great, right out of the box.

Rating: 8 out of 10
October 07, 2024
JF
Vetted Review
Verified User
Automox
1 year of experience
OS updates 3rd party updates Remote assistance Selective roll out policies.
  • 3rd party app updates.
  • Microsoft office updates
  • Remote assistance.
  • Grouping of end points.
Best suited for environments with a mix of end point OSs, all located across the globe.

Automox saved our time and effort

Rating: 9 out of 10
October 03, 2024
Verified User
Vetted Review
Verified User
Automox
19 years of experience
Since we started using this product, patching our RHEL servers has become easy for multiple reasons. It has also helped us configure policies and run them easily across our Linux environment. Collecting stats or details from the environment and generating a report has also become easy.
  • Update or patch our RHEL env.
  • Run policies with custom scripts.
  • Configure accessible reports from the custom scripts.
It is well suited for Linux patching or upgrades and also for setting up custom scripts for execution across the whole environment or a specific group of servers. Then, collect the output from this execution and make a report. A single dashboard makes all of this easy and reduces our time.

Automox is great!

Rating: 9 out of 10
October 03, 2024
Verified User
Vetted Review
Verified User
Automox
2 years of experience
Automation is very important to me because I don’t like doing repetitive tasks if there’s a way to automate them. As a patching solution, Automox performs very well. It would be even more awesome if there was a way to patch running programs. Many errors occur because programs are being patched while running. I appreciate how simple Automox is to use, and another feature I really appreciate is the remote tool. Mostly, I use Teams for remote sessions, but if admin credentials are needed, I usually turn to the remote tool that Automox provides. As long as you have decent PowerShell skills, Automox should be able to handle most of what you need.
  • remote control
  • power shell execution as system
  • Automation
  • Patching
The reason I would score it a nine is because of the inability to “run as.” Since it only runs as a system, this makes some tasks impossible. It would be beneficial to have an encrypted set of credentials in the UI that we can use to “run as,” and also the ability to run as the current user with elevated permissions would be nice. In terms of patching, Automox does a good job, and being able to use Automox to run PowerShell on a computer without needing to open up ports for WinRM is a great feature.

Automox Review

Rating: 10 out of 10
October 03, 2024
MC
Vetted Review
Verified User
Automox
1 year of experience
We use Automox as a way to push important updates to workstations and our servers, both physical and virtual, and as a way to remote into workstations. We have over 300 workstations and almost 200 servers so this makes it very convenient to have everything in one place. We have not had any issues so far with using Automox.
  • pushes updates to workstations
  • keeps track of our current inventory
  • allows us to remote into workstations
  • pushes updates when our laptops have internet access even if they are not onsite.
We have not found an area where Automox is not useful. We use it for pushing updates to our computers and servers in our business. The function to push updates when a laptop has internet access and not necessarily on our local network is great. Ease of use is very nice too.

Automox Huge Success

Rating: 10 out of 10
October 03, 2024
Verified User
Vetted Review
Verified User
Automox
2 years of experience
We use Automox for updates and vulnerability patching. We have a small team and really needed an easy product to deploy and manage. We switched from using SCCM which had more options and configuration than we had time to maintain and love the simplicity of Automox.
  • Windows Updates
  • Third Party Vulnerability Managment
  • Deploy agents easy and quickly
  • Remote Assistance
A company that has simple configuration needs but needs quick and reliable updates and patches. This product has been a lifesaver for my company.

Automox is a solid product

Rating: 7 out of 10
October 03, 2024
Verified User
Vetted Review
Verified User
Automox
1 year of experience
Automox is being tested as a replacement for end-point patching. The interface is easy to use and looks like it can save our teams many hours throughout the month, allowing us to focus resources in better areas. The UI seems well refined, and gives an inviting look, without becoming overwhelming.
  • Windows Patching
  • Automation
  • Reporting
Automox is well suited to replace most organizations patch and software management systems.

Elevating Your Security Posture with Automated Patching

Rating: 9 out of 10
October 02, 2024
Verified User
Vetted Review
Verified User
Automox
1 year of experience
We have remote offices, mini sites for sales and we have end-users from all over the place, they won't be able getting new policy set in our GPO unless they are in our network. With Automox we are able to deploy policies wherever they are. We also use Automox for security patches, remote software installs and IT compliance strategies.
  • Patching
  • Remote software installation via Powershell and or Bash
  • User interface is very easy to use and modern look
Up to date patching of devices, real time management of policies and deployment of software. If you have remote users that don't have direct connection to GPO, Automox really shines. You might need to consider a different remote-control tool though since Automox could not figure out just yet why remote control is misbehaving sporadically.

Automox is a great patching solution

Rating: 10 out of 10
October 01, 2024
mp
Vetted Review
Verified User
Automox
5 years of experience
We are a small Goverment agency of less than 100 employees. We have over 240 devices to keep update to date and found Automox very intuitive and easy to use, it has saved us time and money.
  • patching critical updates
  • Rebooting machine on a schedule
  • very easy to use GUI
I just really like the easy to user interface. I feel like anybody with a little to no experience could sucessfully navigate through the GUI and setup policys

No Regrets

Rating: 10 out of 10
October 01, 2024
Verified User
Vetted Review
Verified User
Automox
2 years of experience
We use Automox to Monitor and patch all of our systems (servers and workstations) . this task used to be very daunting however Automox has made these much easier even adding the ability to update 3rd part app and apply setting to selected machines within the fleet
  • effective update
  • seemless reporting
  • easy to use
  • single pane of glass interface
after dealing with WSUS and SCCM update as well as plain old windows update this is a breeze

My experience with Automox

Rating: 8 out of 10
October 01, 2024
Verified User
Vetted Review
Verified User
Automox
3 years of experience
Within our organization we use Automox to manage our entire inventory of users and assets. By using this I can manage users and their assets by pushing crticically needed updates or maybe I need to push a policy that is needed as soon as possible I can do so remotely using this service. Very quick and handy for anyone in the IT field.
  • Shows applications installed on a specific asset
  • Able to push policies and updates remotely , creating policies is easy.
  • Keep track of compliant devices and when is the last time they have connected to the servers
  • All the great information provided within one single device
As a company we decided to move to another VPN, with doing so we had to push all computers 3 different policies and an update. With Automox we were able to for the most part (when users actually had connected to the server) push all of these policies to each of the computers we needed without remoting into their computers. Saved a ton of time.

Great for multi-platform coverage, but rooms of improvement in lesser areas

Rating: 9 out of 10
September 30, 2024
Verified User
Vetted Review
Verified User
Automox
1 year of experience
Automated patching across MacOS and Windows, as well as worklets for automation of scripts etc., and vulnerability remediation. There's plenty of patching products out there, but few that cover multiple platforms. To avoid vendor sprawl, we looked at Automox as a single vendor for all the platforms that we support across the business.
  • Automated Patching
  • Ease of use
  • Ease of setup
For companies covering multiple platforms, that want to avoid multiple portals to learn, access, etc. to patch and manage these platforms, Automox is great. It's probably on par with other solutions we looked into in terms of functionality, etc. but the multiplatform is a huge advantage the other solutions don't have.

Automox - Set it and Forget IT

Rating: 10 out of 10
September 30, 2024
Verified User
Vetted Review
Verified User
Automox
3 years of experience
We use Automox for Windows and third party patch management as well as automation of some Windows support tasks. Automox has allowed us to configure the critical updates to install right away but also allowed us to schedule non-critical patches to install after a 14 day waiting period to make sure they didnt cause any issues for the early adopter of those patches.
  • Windows patch management
  • Third Party patch management
  • Automation - remote exe3cution
  • Hardware inventory
  • Software Inventory
Automox is well suited for organizations that need the ability to manage what patches are installed, and when they are installed. It is also good for organizations that want a tools that allows them to easily run remote scripts or take remote admin actions on a large number of devices.

The perfect Inventory Management

Rating: 8 out of 10
September 30, 2024
Verified User
Vetted Review
Verified User
Automox
1 year of experience
I'm Sysadmin and I use Automox to be sure that computers are always up to date and we use some policies in order to have secured laptops.
We also are able to check installed software.
We need some specific configuration for some laptops and we can easily deploy the config online.
  • Inventory Control
  • Up To Date software
  • Worklet deployment
We are able to see if our laptops are up and running. We can check the software installed on our computers and be sure that there are not allowed software. We can apply some policies to laptops of our inventory and manage through groups. In our opinion is a great tool. That's the reason why we use Automox.

Patching with Automox will save you a headache, or three

Rating: 8 out of 10
September 30, 2024
Verified User
Vetted Review
Verified User
Automox
1 year of experience
Automox solves one of the most crucial issues we ran into during our day-to-day maintenance of our endpoints. It is very important that our endpoints stay up to date with the latest version of Software patches and Windows Updates. Automox provides a centralized management point for being able to push out Software and Windows updates automatically and manually. It also provides an easy to use Activity Report and Policy Results Report that lets you view the overall health of your organization and which endpoints may be missing a patch or multiple. Automox makes it very easy to keep our endpoints up to date with Windows updates automatically and also push any manual updates we want.
  • Automatically keeps endpoints up to date using configured patch policies.
  • Easy to use interface that allows quick and easy policy creation and editing.
  • Has an extensive Script and Worklet catalog that you can choose from to do a large variety of tasks.
  • Automox has very helpful customer support with quick responses.
Automox is incredible in Medium sized businesses and organizations. It makes pushing updates and keeping endpoints up to date very easy and responsive. Automox also does a great job at keeping laptops up to date. Laptops can sometimes be a pain to manage depending on how often users turn them on and keep them on. From my experience, Automox quickly reaches out to a laptop within a minute of it being powered on and immediately starts installing updates to it. You can customize the installation and restarting messages so that the computers do not reboot in the middle of a user's work.

Good solution, with room to improve

Rating: 8 out of 10
September 24, 2024
Verified User
Vetted Review
Verified User
Automox
1 year of experience
Schedule and apply Windows updates to our customers Virtual Machines. Manage existing installed software via reporting capabilities.
Help provide reporting to customers for scheduled and pending Windows updates on a monthly basis.
Provides the capability of scheduling and running updates on a one time or ongoing basis to help implement updates when you need them,
  • gathers new windows updates
  • provides interface to approve updates for groups of VMs
its a great product with some room for improvement, but overall is better than others we have used and bridges gaps left by Azure Update Management

Automox, the Swiss Knife for Endpoint Patching

Rating: 8 out of 10
September 19, 2024
We use Automox for patching host machines throughout the organization, Automox addresses the following business problems we had, it would address the issue of not keeping host machines operating systems up-to-date, software patching also is a breeze with Automox too. We are able to group different machines according to critical to non critical and then further apply different policies to them. The Automox is cloud based and relieving the on-prem duties, it is a very fast patching solution overall.
  • Automated OS and software patching
  • Different policy creation
  • Dynamic OU group management
  • Powershell script commands
Automox is well suited for large organizations that need an automated patching solution, also its cloud-based nature helps relieve maintaining the on-premises duties that organization will be responsible for.

Automox is less appropriate for small businesses where host machines can easily be managed without the need to automated patching. The reason for this is Automox is really designed to take advantage of scalable environments.

Automox is a great RMM Tool

Rating: 10 out of 10
September 19, 2024
Verified User
Vetted Review
Verified User
Automox
1 year of experience
In my organization, I use Automox as a way to monitor and patch vulnerabilities in about 250 computers. Automox has made my life much easier with their worklet, which are basically powershell scripts that can be ran remotely. This makes it extremely easy to patch third party applications, and even run Windows updates.
  • Remote powershell scripting
  • Remote monitoring
  • Ease of use
Automox is well suited in patching software, windows updates, running scripts remotely on computers, running tasks in custom schedules, and providing reports about how well the organization is doing in terms of patches.
Areas where Automox lacks are the lack of a desktop or mobile app, and their remote control of PCs could be improves.

Like an extra team member!

Rating: 8 out of 10
September 19, 2024
Verified User
Vetted Review
Verified User
Automox
2 years of experience
We use Automox for laptops and user devices only. It helps keep these devices up to date with very little interaction needed.
We find that Automox does the work of another employee and gives us clear and precise reporting.

We find it can be a little tricky with Azure or time critical update windows so we only use for laptops
  • 3rd Party Updates
  • Reporting
  • Policy filtering
Well suited for churning out updates both OS and 3rd party to user devices, also great remote access tool which is enabled prior to login

Doesn't work so well on azure machines which are normally off and turned on for a couple of hours to update. This gave us too many issues so we don;t use Automox in this scenario anymore

Automox Review

Rating: 10 out of 10
September 19, 2024
DC
Vetted Review
Verified User
Automox
3 years of experience
I'm a small credit union with two locations and Automox has made it very simple to manage all the patching needs and updates on my 24 computers to keep us up to date and as safe as possible. Our examiners love it. It's very user friendly.
  • Patching
  • Computer Updates
  • The Worklets are great.
Automox is great for small offices, but is scalable for larger organizations. I like being able to remotely connect to all of our computers and update them at anytime. I also have the patching set to update at night automatically. I'm not sure where Automox wouldn't help, maybe in very large companies.

Great Product

Rating: 9 out of 10
September 19, 2024
Verified User
Vetted Review
Verified User
Automox
2 years of experience
It makes it easy to keep every endpoint automatically configured, patched, and secured – anywhere within the organization or anywhere in the world. With the push of a apply patches button or remediate vulnerability button, the Security Team can fix critical and operation-crucial vulnerabilities faster, slash cost and complexity, and get back the efficiency within a day.
  • Patching on time
  • Providing insight
  • Vulnerability Scanning
  • Customization
Compliance. Identify the technologies that will take your company forward and enable your organization to stay ahead of the pack.
Reduce company risk
Ensure employee productivity
Achieve long-term company security and stability.
Stay on top of the patching and compliance requirements
Pease of mind
Scheduled patching policies, customizable policies fort patching

Automox is my preferred choice

Rating: 8 out of 10
September 19, 2024
CM
Vetted Review
Automox
3 years of experience
I currently use Automox for patching workstations and servers. We also use the application to push out powershell scripts global and to update certain applications via a script. This is our go to for global script execution.
  • Patching windows and most 3rd party applications
  • Pushing out Powershell scripts to devices on a global scale
  • Reporting on patch validation
Well Suited- Global patch management for devices and 3rd party applications.

Less appropriate - If you are looking for a way to automate driver and firmware updates

Automox is great!

Rating: 10 out of 10
September 19, 2024
Verified User
Vetted Review
Verified User
Automox
2 years of experience
We use Automox to solve for multi-tenant patching needs across multiple OS platforms. We enjoy the ease of managing patching windows, 3rd party patching, and ad-hoc app installations and patching. Their team is super helpful, and our customers have a more secure environment as a result. Thanks Automox Team!
  • Patching
  • Multi-tenant
  • User Experience
  • Security
Great for scenarios where you need a multi-tenant application to help automate first-party and 3rd party patching.

Goto Patching for Enterprise

Rating: 9 out of 10
September 19, 2024
Verified User
Vetted Review
Verified User
Automox
2 years of experience
Automated Patching of Windows and Linux Machines. Saves us time on having to manually patch. Ensures that all systems are up-to-date with the latest security patches and reduces the risk of vulnerabilities being exploited. Increases overall system security and minimizes the potential for cyber attacks.
  • Third Party Patching
  • Windows OS Patching
  • Remote Scripting
For a large enterprise with the funds, Automox hits the spot. The pricing, however prices out smaller businesses with the per endpoint pricing. Overall however, its a solid product.

You are in good hands with Automox!

Rating: 9 out of 10
September 19, 2024
LC
Vetted Review
Verified User
Automox
2 years of experience
We use Automox to patch all of our Windows, macOS and Linux devices. It works hand in hand with our MDR product to remediate vulnerabilities with just a click. We have full peace of mind that Automox is continually scanning our devices and keeping everything up to date in the background!
  • Easy to schedule in patching which works around our business needs
  • Easy to exclude patches which have a business requirement for delaying.
  • Rich reporting allows us to see the current state of our assets.
If your business is running different OS's, Automox really takes the headache out of keeping everything up to date. Everything is controlled in one central location, and you can easily see if any patching needs manual intervention.
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