Fleet CEO: Faster Remediation Needs IT and Partner Support

Fleet has announced new autonomous endpoint management capabilities designed to help enterprises reduce vulnerability exposure windows from months to days, and in some cases, hours, as security teams face faster exploit development and growing pressure from AI-enabled threats.

The San Francisco-based company said its platform now supports continuous patching and vulnerability exposure reporting across major operating systems. 

Fleet targets faster patching across every major OS

Fleet said the new capabilities monitor when software updates become available and when vulnerabilities are disclosed, then automatically take action without requiring a ticket or manual intervention. 

The platform can update software, uninstall outdated versions, or apply other mitigations when a device falls out of compliance.

“Immediately, when that new version is available, within one hour we’re accepting it on the Fleet side, and within another hour, it’s live on your machines,” CEO Mike McNeil told Channel Insider ahead of the launch.

The company said policies can run hourly or at custom intervals, giving IT and security teams a way to shrink exposure windows while maintaining control over deployment scope.

“It’s got to be in the hands of the people closest to the work. It’s gotta be the people that see what needs to be done and build the policies to do it,” McNeil said, noting that IT teams need to take on patching not typically owned by security teams to keep up with the pace of change.

Fleet is positioning the launch around autonomous endpoint management, a category Gartner has described as a major advancement in endpoint operations. 

According to Gartner’s 2025 Innovation Insight cited by Fleet, AEM-enabled tools can reduce patching cycles to 6 to 13 days, an 87% reduction from current averages.

Reporting adds visibility into endpoint exposure

The announcement also includes reporting tools that show which devices have or had outdated software, as well as how long those devices were exposed to critical vulnerabilities over the previous 30 days.

That reporting could help IT teams measure mean time to patch and provide security leaders with more concrete visibility into endpoint risk. Fleet said the reporting also complements its existing data lake integrations for deeper historical analysis.

“Just being able to see how fast do we burn that one down… we did that in like six hours, or that one took two weeks. I think the IT team should be able to show that off and be proud of it,” McNeil said.

For MSPs and enterprise IT providers, that kind of reporting may be especially useful in managed environments where customers increasingly expect proof of compliance, patch velocity, and risk reduction.

Customers cite operational gains

Fleet said that security-conscious companies, including Fastly, Uber, Cursor, Reddit, and Stripe, have selected its platform to keep employee devices up to date.

“Adopting Fleet has fundamentally shifted how we manage devices, turning it into a streamlined discipline that mirrors our DevOps culture. We’ve unlocked total, unified visibility across thousands of employee devices, and we get real-time confidence in the health and compliance of our global infrastructure every single day,” said Dan Jackson, senior manager, systems engineering at Fastly.  

“We operate entirely free of the traditional maintenance and operational overhead that used to slow us down, resulting in a highly secure, efficient, and modern IT environment,” Jackson continued.

“Vulnerabilities are getting faster and faster to exploit,” McNeil said. “There are bots, there are cron jobs that sit there and auto-exploit, auto-discover vulnerabilities. It’s only going to get easier.”

Why Fleet sees a partner opportunity in remediation

The announcement comes as endpoint management is increasingly tied to cyber resilience, compliance, and AI-era threat readiness. 

For channel partners, MSPs, and security service providers, the shift could create demand for more automated patch management, endpoint compliance reporting, and vulnerability exposure services. 

Fleet recently rolled out a new partner program targeting MSPs and resellers, as it shifts towards a partner-first sales model.  

McNeil told Channel Insider that partner-led growth is one of the key opportunities for Fleet in the second half of 2026.

“Every one of those large enterprises or mid-market companies has a channel partner that they trust… and is gonna be there side by side with them,” McNeil said, adding that those partner relationships are crucial to scaling Fleet’s hands-on customer support to meet the needs of more enterprises as demand for Fleet’s solutions grows.