Craig Burton

BigFix next month plans to upgrade its patch and configuration management software to support mobile laptops and help customers check computers for security holes before letting any devices onto a network.

The company will ship its Mobile Security Manager, an agent that sits on a Windows-based laptop and monitors patch, anti-virus and system configurations and keeps them up to date. The company also is introducing the BigFix Client Compliance API, which will let BigFix agents talk with software that assesses the state of a computer before letting it log on to a network.