This claim holds the hardware in a condition somebody can actually describe: updated, catalogued, filtered, reachable and demonstrable. It is the least dramatic material in the register and it takes more risk off the table than anything else in it, since most of what gets turned against a small business had a published repair sitting unapplied.
The elaborate intrusions get written up. The ordinary ones arrive through something a supplier repaired two quarters ago, on a machine where updating was left to whoever remembers to press the button. N-able N-sight handles the operating system along with the everyday software around it, to a rota, and the failures land in front of us rather than in front of no one.
The catalogue matters more than it sounds. On the morning a laptop cannot be found, the distance between a calm hour and a terrible fortnight is knowing what was on it, knowing whether the disk was encrypted, and being able to show both to somebody who asks.
Mac hardware bought one machine at a time tends to stay outside management, which is tolerable right up until somebody has to demonstrate the disk was encrypted. Addigy holds the settings in place, delivers the updates and provides a wipe that works. Filtering runs on the very agent doing the monitoring, which holds a laptop to identical rules over a hotel connection.
The handset receives company mail, approves payments and stores the authenticator. Zimperium reaches its verdicts on the device, which catches a rogue access point or a bad link without anybody's private browsing being sent away to be inspected.
Four lines. Monitoring and updating, filtering, the Apple estate, and the handsets people read company mail on.
Updates applied, hardware catalogued, machines reachable. Nothing about this line is interesting and it removes more risk than anything else in the register, because a great share of what gets turned against a small business had a supplier repair published months before anybody arrived.
| Claimed for | Machines on Windows, on macOS or on Linux, plus handset enrolment |
|---|---|
| Reduces | Attacks against holes a supplier had already published a repair for |
| Term | Renews monthly, taken up front, closes when you say so |
| Filed by | N-able N-sight |
| Examined by | Fortify 24x7 people, across the scheduled update rounds |
Rules that go where the laptop goes. A machine on a hotel connection is held to whatever it is held to at its own desk, and the categories are set by you rather than inherited from a template. Nothing is racked and nothing is bought, because the agent doing this is already installed.
| Claimed for | Any managed machine, on the premises or well away from them |
|---|---|
| Reduces | Arrival at the page behind the link, before a download begins |
| Term | Renews monthly, taken up front, closes when you say so |
| Filed by | N-able N-sight |
| Examined by | Fortify 24x7 people, who tune the categories with you |
Apple hardware administered rather than assumed to be safe. Settings held in place, updates delivered on your timetable, disk encryption switched on and demonstrable, and a wipe that works on the machine somebody carried out of the building.
| Claimed for | macOS and iOS hardware the business owns |
|---|---|
| Reduces | Drifted settings, and Apple hardware leaving unencrypted |
| Term | Renews monthly, taken up front, closes when you say so |
| Filed by | Addigy |
| Examined by | Fortify 24x7 people, on enrolment and drift |
Company mail arrives on it, payments get approved from it, and the authenticator lives on it. Treating the handset as somebody else's problem stopped working years ago. Zimperium reaches its verdicts on the device, which means a rogue access point or a bad link is caught without anybody's private browsing being shipped away for inspection.
| Claimed for | Handsets and tablets that receive company mail |
|---|---|
| Reduces | Links and rogue networks reaching staff through a phone |
| Term | Renews monthly, taken up front, closes when you say so |
| Filed by | Zimperium |
| Examined by | Fortify 24x7 people, on device convictions |
Worth reading twice. A claim with no stated boundary is one nobody bothered to examine.