Move faster,
with Assurance.
Readiness Assurance is the continuous security and intelligence layer for enterprise Windows application estates - discovery, packaging, testing, threat analysis, and publishing, delivered as a managed service to regulated industries.
Every application, every patch, every platform change is a risk-based security decision under production-level time constraints. Readiness Assurance turns that uncertainty into prescriptive guidance and then delivers tested, documented, and certified application packages.
Four capabilities, one continuous service.
Readiness Assurance is an end-to-end managed service for the enterprise Windows application estate. Every package is discovered, analysed, secured, tested, and published - with a documented evidence trail retained for the life of the agreement.
Packaging & Repackaging
Accept any Windows installer - EXE, MSI, ZIP, script - and produce
standards-compliant packages in the required format: MSI, MSIX, App-V, Liquidware,
or Intune .intunewin. Automated discovery, silent-install validation,
transform generation, and deployment wrapping.
Security & Threat Analysis
Every binary is scanned for malware and supply-chain contamination on intake and continuously thereafter. CVE and KEV data is mapped to your actual installed versions - not keyword matches - using structured CPE evidence. Remediation packages are prioritised by exploitability and business context.
Testing & Automated QA
Install, exercise, roll-back, repair, and uninstall - every package validated against your agreed QA check-sheet. Audit-grade QC reports document what was tested, what passed, and what was auto-fixed. Evidence reaches production ready for inspection.
Continuous Assurance
Continuous monitoring of Microsoft Patch Tuesday, third-party vendor releases, and platform change. Portfolio-aware impact reporting, patch intelligence, Evergreen version management, and Application Portfolio Intelligence - the ongoing record of posture, risk, and readiness.
Three forces reshaping enterprise packaging.
Discovery outruns delivery
AI-assisted scanners now surface thousands of zero-day vulnerabilities in hours. Traditional 30-day packaging cycles cannot keep pace with disclosure velocity.
The remediation gap
Of the new vulnerabilities discovered at machine speed, fewer than one percent reach production systems as tested, packaged updates. Discovery has outrun delivery.
No longer point-in-time
Regulators and cyber-insurers now assume continuous assurance. Point-in-time evidence no longer satisfies the standard of care for regulated industries.
Four outcomes. One subscription.
A single cloud-native platform, delivered by strategic service partners, removes the four compounding costs of enterprise application packaging.
Faster cycle times
Reduce application change cycles to three-week delivery. Absorb rising patch cadence across Microsoft and third-party vendors without lengthening release windows or expanding headcount.
Evidence over assumption
Automated malware scanning, regression analysis, and audit-grade QC for every package. Reduce the risk of production change, platform regression, and supply-chain contamination with a documented evidence trail.
No hardware. No licensing.
Browser-based and cloud-native. No on-premises infrastructure, no per-seat licensing, no packaging lab overhead. The subscription covers every aspect of the packaging lifecycle for the agreed portfolio.
Web and API, everywhere
Secure browser access from any jurisdiction, full REST API for pipeline integration, and a dedicated client instance with full history, reports, and documentation retained for the life of the agreement.
Engagement in five phases.
From first upload to continuous assurance, every engagement follows a documented sequence. Standards are agreed up front. Evidence is captured throughout. Nothing is unstructured.
Engagement & Standards
Service Definition agreed. Packaging standards, QA check-sheets, naming conventions, and documentation formats confirmed in writing. A dedicated cloud instance, secure storage, and REST API access are provisioned for the client.
Portfolio Intake & Health Check
Application binaries and discovery data uploaded to the client's Readiness storage. Automated algorithmic analysis, smoke-testing, malware scanning, and CVE/KEV mapping produce a branded portfolio health check - a complete baseline of posture and risk.
Pilot Delivery
A pilot of 15 packages is delivered to agreed standards with full QC evidence. Client sign-off confirms the pipeline, acceptance criteria, and documentation meet expectations before production begins.
Production Packaging
Applications flow through Discovery → Repackaging → Testing → Automated QA → Publishing. New applications, upgrades, updates, and configuration changes are managed through the Readiness service desk. Every package carries a full audit trail.
Continuous Assurance
The portfolio enters steady-state Evergreen management. Microsoft Patch Tuesday is pre-assessed against the full estate. Third-party vendor releases are monitored continuously. New CVEs are mapped to installed versions within hours of disclosure. Application Portfolio Intelligence dashboards keep the client in posture.
Faster updates, increased visibility.
Microsoft Patch Tuesday volumes have trended upward year on year. Third-party vendors have compressed their own cycles - Chrome, Firefox, and runtime platforms now ship security updates every few weeks. A typical enterprise estate absorbs hundreds of patch events a month.
Exploitation windows have collapsed alongside. Vulnerabilities that once took months to weaponise are now active within days of disclosure. Patching everything is impractical; patching nothing is indefensible.
Readiness Assurance brings portfolio context to the problem. Every CVE, every vendor release, and every platform change is mapped to the applications that actually matter - so patch cycles begin with evidence, not in reaction to it.
Built for the managed-service commercial model.
Readiness Assurance is designed to sit inside the packaging practice of strategic service partners - extending capacity, accelerating delivery, and deepening margin without capital commitment.
Packaging throughput scales with client portfolios, not recruitment cycles. Absorb a two-hundred application intake without adding twenty packagers. Flex coverage at Patch Tuesday without carrying the payroll between cycles.
Packages, QC reports, portfolio dashboards, and evidence documents carry the partner's brand, the partner's standards, and the partner's documentation conventions. Readiness operates as the assurance layer behind the service.
The per-application annual subscription maps cleanly to the managed-service commercial model. Full REST API and ServiceNow-ready integration accelerate time-to-value inside the partner's existing operating model.
Application Portfolio Intelligence, patch intelligence, malware and supply-chain scanning, and machine-speed remediation become standard inclusions in the partner's proposals - not optional upgrades.
Analysis from the practice.
Monthly analysis from the Readiness team on Microsoft Patch Tuesday, Evergreen cadence, and the shifting economics of the Windows application estate.
Welcome to Perspectives
A new home for monthly Patch Tuesday analysis and Application Portfolio Intelligence.
Read analysis →April 2026 Testing Guidance
Each month, the team at Readiness analyses the latest Patch Tuesday updates from Microsoft and provides detailed, actionable testing guidance. April’s release covers 56 component updates across Windows. Microsoft flagged two as High R
Read analysis →Assurance Security Dashboard April 2026
Readiness Patch Tuesday Dashboard
Read analysis →March 2026 Patch Tuesday
Each month, the team at Readiness analyzes the latest Patch Tuesday updates from Microsoft and provides detailed, actionable testing guidance. March’s release addresses 83 vulnerabilities across Windows, Office, SQL Server, Azure, and
Read analysis →March 2026: Patch Tuesday Testing Guidance
Each month, the team at Readiness analyzes the latest Patch Tuesday updates from Microsoft and provides detailed, actionable testing guidance. March’s release addresses 83 vulnerabilities across Windows, Office, SQL Server, Azure, and
Read analysis →Assurance Security Dashboard March 2026
Readiness Patch Tuesday Dashboard
Read analysis →Founded by a packager.
Readiness was built by practitioners who have spent two decades inside the enterprise Windows packaging problem - not around it.
Greg Lambert
Greg has spent over two decades in enterprise Windows application packaging, compatibility, and platform assurance. He contributes monthly analysis to Computerworld on Microsoft Patch Tuesday and has advised financial services, healthcare, and public-sector clients on the economics of Evergreen IT.
Based in Vancouver, Canada.
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