Companies at this size are almost always operating three device platforms while managing two. One desk here answers for the Windows and the Linux machines, for Apple hardware that multiplied faster than anybody drafted policy for, and for the handsets everybody reads mail on.
Almost everything exploited inside a company this size had a vendor fix available months beforehand. Nobody decided against installing it. What happened is that keeping several hundred machines current across three platforms is tedious, and tedious work loses every contest for somebody's afternoon. Passing it to a service settles that: the schedule runs whether anybody feels like it or not, the failures get chased, and what comes back names the machines still behind.
Filtering travels on the very same agent. No box gets racked, no traffic gets hauled back to a head office, and the protection stays with the laptop rather than with the building the laptop used to live in.
Past a few hundred people the Mac population is no longer three designers in marketing. It is a platform, and it usually has neither a configuration baseline nor a way for new hardware to enrol itself. Addigy supplies both. Handsets tell the same story: they hold the mail, they hold the approval prompts, and in most companies nothing at all is looking at them.
Zimperium reaches its conclusions on the phone rather than routing traffic away to be inspected somewhere. Where hardware doubles as somebody's personal phone, the distinction is what makes the arrangement acceptable to whoever carries it.
Figures underneath arrive directly out of billing. Whatever gets logged waits in the logbook while you keep reading.
Monitoring, updating, scripting, and remote hands over the managed population, driven by a schedule, with somebody chasing whatever failed rather than merely tabulating it.
| Piloted on | N-able N-sight |
|---|---|
| Sounds | Update state, device health, and how recently it reported in |
| Logged for | Every update run, what failed, and how each failure was closed |
| Handed to | Fortify 24x7 engineers, who own the schedule |
| Charted by | Managed device, monthly |
Category and reputation filtering decided on the machine, so the control follows the laptop instead of staying behind in an office nobody visits.
| Piloted on | N-able N-sight web and DNS filtering |
|---|---|
| Sounds | Name lookups and web requests leaving the managed device |
| Logged for | Refused destinations, their categories, and bandwidth by machine |
| Handed to | Fortify 24x7 engineers, against a policy you signed off |
| Charted by | Managed device, monthly |
Configuration, enrolment, and compliance enforcement over Apple hardware, so that the Mac population is held to the same baseline as everything else your company owns.
| Piloted on | Addigy |
|---|---|
| Sounds | Configuration and compliance state across macOS and iOS |
| Logged for | Profile changes, update state, and drift, machine by machine |
| Handed to | Fortify 24x7 engineers, with your administrators able to look |
| Charted by | Apple device, monthly |
Detection on the handset covering malware, phishing, dubious applications, and hostile networks, decided locally rather than by routing anybody's traffic somewhere else to be read.
| Piloted on | Zimperium |
|---|---|
| Sounds | Application conduct, links, and network conditions on the handset |
| Logged for | Detections per handset, holding no record of private browsing |
| Handed to | Fortify 24x7 watch, any hour of the day |
| Charted by | Mobile device, monthly |
Fleet work is the least interesting station in the catalog and the one that quietly prevents the most. It has an edge all the same.
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