Minutes to configure, with no infrastructure to build

Long and involved, with servers, consoles, plugins and certificates before anything runs

Scan and patch over the same agentless channel, with nothing installed on the endpoint

Both agentless scanning and agentless patching are supported

Scanning, patching, configuration audit and remote access in one console

Split across separate products for patching, vulnerability management and remote control, each with its own console

SaaS and on-premises, with fully air-gapped support

SaaS and on-premises

Servers, desktops, virtual machines, network devices and cloud workloads, on-premises and in the cloud

Servers and endpoints only. Network devices are not covered.

Full enterprise platform with software inventory plus kernel and package scanning

Patch assessment only. Real vulnerability management is a separate product that ingests other scanners' findings.

Supported

Not part of the patch products

Fully in-built. Patch straight from the vulnerability finding.

Patching is the core of the product

1300+ applications, pre-validated before deployment

Supported

Both fully supported, including disconnected and air-gapped sites

Both driver and offline patching are supported

Stage, test then deploy, with rollback on any patch

Pilot and test group deployment, with rollback

Real-time status for every patch, plus post-patch health checks that flag unresponsive hosts

Overall job status only, with no post-patch health check

Custom and predefined policies, software deployment and custom scripts

Custom policies, though scripts live in their endpoint management product

Agentless access across Windows, Linux and macOS, with file transfer and session recording

Supported, in a separate product with its own console

Syncs users, groups and devices from AD, and every device it finds is ready to scan and patch with nothing to install

Supported

Summary and in-depth reports in PDF, JSON and CSV, with mitigation and patch mapping

Patch job reports only, with no single view tying a finding to its fix

Intuitive interface with a low learning curve

Complex, and widely reported as hard to learn

24x7 support with fully remote onboarding and training

A recurring source of customer complaints

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Subscription or perpetual

Subscription only

SecOps Solution delivers the best overall performance: fast scanning, exceptionally low false positives, and patching, configuration audit and remote access in one console. Everything works agentlessly, and the platform runs as SaaS, on-premises or fully air-gapped, on subscription or perpetual licensing.

Ivanti covers a lot of ground, but it does so across a spread of separate products and consoles. Setup runs long, reporting is thin, real vulnerability management means buying another product, and running the whole thing takes a specialist team.