This is the housekeeping bench: what hardware exists, what condition it is in, which destinations it may reach and who is looking at it. Four lines take in the Linux and Windows estate, the Apple kit, and whichever handsets your people genuinely read mail on.
Patch level, missing agents, disks about to fail, machines that stopped reporting: every one of those questions assumes a document that says what you own, and says it accurately today rather than in the year it was written. N-able N-sight compiles and keeps that document, and the rest of this bench reads from it.
Filtering travels on that identical agent. Nothing goes into a rack, nothing wants re-pointing when the office turns out to be a dozen kitchen tables, and reporting takes in browser and programmatic traffic alike, private windows included.
Apple kit complains less, which gets mistaken for having fewer faults. Addigy carries profile and compliance across macOS and iOS, which puts the Apple half of an estate onto exactly the instruments used everywhere else.
Zimperium takes the handsets. Its judgement forms on the handset itself, which is why a hotel network run by nobody in particular changes nothing. Given how many approvals now happen by phone, keeping phones off the register stopped being defensible some years back.
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An accurate register of hardware, its condition and its patch level, together with management of the tablets and handsets. After this line, how many machines have we got stops being a question anyone has to guess at.
| Runs on | Machines under Linux, macOS or Windows, plus mobile devices |
|---|---|
| Reacts to | Patch drift, failed jobs, hardware gone quiet |
| Shelved for | Estates nobody currently holds a complete register for |
| Cleared by | Engineers who work the alert instead of relaying it |
| Assayed by | Counted per managed device, each month |
Filtering travels with the agent already installed. No box goes in a rack, and nothing needs re-pointing when half your people are working from a kitchen table in another county.
| Runs on | The N-able N-sight agent already on the machine |
|---|---|
| Reacts to | Lookups toward categories and reputations you ruled out |
| Shelved for | Estates that work anywhere except the office |
| Cleared by | Exceptions settled with you, never slipped in quietly |
| Assayed by | Counted per managed device, each month |
Profiles enforced, compliance measured, and Apple hardware measured by the standard applied everywhere else on the floor. Quieter hardware is not better behaved hardware; it is hardware nobody has measured.
| Runs on | macOS and iOS hardware |
|---|---|
| Reacts to | Configuration wandering off the profile you approved |
| Shelved for | Studios and boardrooms standardised on Apple |
| Cleared by | Fortify 24x7 engineers hold the management tenant |
| Assayed by | Counted per Apple device, each month |
Protection sitting on the handset itself. Payment approvals and password resets happen on phones now, which makes a phone part of the estate whether or not anyone has written it into the register.
| Runs on | Handsets and tablets running Android or iOS |
|---|---|
| Reacts to | Hostile networks, malicious apps, phishing on the handset |
| Shelved for | Anyone approving payments from a phone |
| Cleared by | The desk that already handles endpoint findings |
| Assayed by | Counted per mobile device, each month |
Housekeeping has edges. These are the four lines' edges, stated where you can find them.
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