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April 22, 2025
Why Puppet Vulnerability Remediation is a Game-Changer for Enterprise Infrastructure Ops
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Effective vulnerability management has become a growing priority for organizations. Aided in part by AI, threats and vulnerabilities grow in speed and sophistication while IT environments become more complex. The skill gap for cybersecurity keeps widening (further worsened by a sprawling toolkit), exposing critical systems to exploitation. Managing secure infrastructure manually just isn’t possible at the scale and speed today’s enterprises demand.
By introducing new vulnerability remediation features, Puppet is shaping the future of secure operations — from the foundation laid by the Puppet Enterprise platform and the impactful features available today to the road ahead. Learn more on the product page, or read on to learn why it’s such an important step in the evolution of enterprise DevSecOps.
Explore Puppet Vulnerability Remediation
Meeting the Need for a Secure, Stable Foundation
Last year, Sean Atkinson, CISO at the Center for Internet Security, told me it would be the biggest year on record for vulnerabilities identified. His prediction was right: In 2024, 39,987 CVEs were identified — a 38% increase over 2023’s record-breaking 28,818.
Puppet helps organizations establish a rock-solid foundation for improving infrastructure resilience with workflow automation and configuration management. Customers can continuously identify misconfigurations and remediate potential risks, laying the groundwork for a stronger compliance posture, minimized risk of security breaches, reduced costs, and improved efficiency.
The Puppet Enterprise platform introduced a shared language to allow teams to manage complex infrastructure together. It turned secure workflows into something collaborative, opening the door for what was to come.
Back to topBringing Teams Together with Enhanced Efficiency & Usability
With improved vulnerability remediation capabilities and expanded enterprise use cases, Puppet has become an indispensable unifier of critical processes for making IT infrastructure more resilient and secure. By offering the ability to rapidly identify vulnerabilities, prioritize the response, and deploy patches across diverse environments, Puppet minimizes downtime, reduces exposure to threats, and saves teams countless hours.
But the real innovation lies in how Puppet facilitates communication and collaboration across Development, Security, and Operations teams. By combining automation with visibility into their environments, Puppet becomes a bridge between traditionally siloed functions, enabling them to manage enterprise infrastructure together.
Instead of one-off manual patching processes, Puppet helps teams shift security left and automates essential vulnerability remediation workflows:
- Teams can share and consume information better for faster decision making
- Security and Operations teams can address threats quickly and without friction
- Automation ensures continuous compliance with enterprise-wide security policies
This is Puppet cementing its place in the DevSecOps ecosystem — not just as a time-saving automation platform, but as a critical component of secure operations. It allows enterprise organizations to treat vulnerability remediation as a shared responsibility that connects development, infrastructure, and risk management. By improving collaboration between teams, Puppet ensures security is baked-in throughout the lifecycle, not just bolted-on.
Back to topUshering In the Future of Resilient Infrastructure Management
Imagine a world where patching integrates seamlessly with automation pipelines. Security policies transform from rigid documents into living code that scales and evolves along with your infrastructure. Cross-functional stakeholders get the information they need to reduce risk effectively. Nobody needs to ask “Are we secure?” and “Can we pass an audit?” anymore — adherence to security policies, regulations, and SLAs is built into the very foundation of your infrastructure.
Instead of throwing requests over the fence, Security and Platform stakeholders share visibility into new risks so they can come together to prioritize, plan, remediate, report, and stay ready for the next vulnerability.
The next chapter of DevSecOps is here. Puppet’s vision is a proactive and codified approach to managing critical IT systems. By bringing together real-time insights, powerful automation, and human collaboration, Puppet is creating a future where vulnerability management isn’t just reactive but preventative.
But we're not stopping there. Puppet’s evolution is continuous, always seeking out ways to make secure configuration management even more intuitive, accessible, and impactful. Whether tightening integration, improving efficiency of cross functional teams, increasing ease of use through the strategic use of AI, or exploring new ways to make security and compliance continuous, Puppet will remain at the forefront of innovation.
Back to topMore than Just a Tool
Puppet Enterprise Advanced highlights an essential shift in how organizations approach not just vulnerability management but secure configuration as a whole. Puppet is building a future where teams can proactively defend against vulnerabilities rather than simply reacting to them. With Perforce’s long-term commitment to providing a DevOps Edge for the Outperformers — and with platform automation choreographing this cross-functional dance — organizations can already reap the benefits of a safer, more collaborative DevSecOps approach.
With Puppet, streamlined and efficient vulnerability management is now no longer a challenge to overcome, it’s an opportunity to sharpen your focus on innovation.