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Chart 06 / Device fleet pilotage

A fleet you cannot count is a fleet you cannot steer.

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.

N-able N-sightAddigyZimperium
4 lines drawn here / every rate live from billing
Lines on this chart4
PlatformsN-able N-sight, Addigy, Zimperium
Billed onManaged device
SchedulesRun and chased by us

Unglamorous work prevents most of the damage

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.

The report ought to name the machines still behind, not average them away.

Apple and handsets stop being footnotes at this size

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.

Codes drawn on this chart

Line sheets and rates

Figures underneath arrive directly out of billing. Whatever gets logged waits in the logbook while you keep reading.

Fortify-RMMLine sheet

Remote Monitoring and Management

N-able N-sight over Windows, macOS, and Linux

Monitoring, updating, scripting, and remote hands over the managed population, driven by a schedule, with somebody chasing whatever failed rather than merely tabulating it.

  • Update schedules built per platform, and failures pursued until they clear.
  • Health checks across disks and services, watching for the early signs of an expensive week.
  • Remote sessions, so a repair does not wait for anybody to cross a building.
Piloted onN-able N-sight
SoundsUpdate state, device health, and how recently it reported in
Logged forEvery update run, what failed, and how each failure was closed
Handed toFortify 24x7 engineers, who own the schedule
Charted byManaged device, monthly
Soundingper managed device
taken each month, always up front
QTY
Fortify-RMM-DNSLine sheet

Web and DNS Filtering

N-able N-sight filtering, carried by the agent already there

Category and reputation filtering decided on the machine, so the control follows the laptop instead of staying behind in an office nobody visits.

  • Rides the agent already present, with no box racked and no traffic hauled back.
  • One policy on categories, applied wherever the machine happens to be sitting.
  • Reporting on blocked destinations and bandwidth across the managed population.
Piloted onN-able N-sight web and DNS filtering
SoundsName lookups and web requests leaving the managed device
Logged forRefused destinations, their categories, and bandwidth by machine
Handed toFortify 24x7 engineers, against a policy you signed off
Charted byManaged device, monthly
Soundingper managed device
taken each month, always up front
QTY
Fortify-ControlLine sheet

Apple Fleet Management

Addigy, managing macOS and iOS

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.

  • New hardware enrols itself out of the box, and existing hardware gets a baseline.
  • Profiles, enforced updates, and a compliance state readable per machine.
  • Runs beside the monitoring line rather than in place of it.
Piloted onAddigy
SoundsConfiguration and compliance state across macOS and iOS
Logged forProfile changes, update state, and drift, machine by machine
Handed toFortify 24x7 engineers, with your administrators able to look
Charted byApple device, monthly
Soundingper Apple device
taken each month, always up front
QTY
Fortify-MobileLine sheet

Mobile Threat Defense

Zimperium, reaching its conclusions on the phone

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.

  • Runs across iOS and Android, concluding locally with no detour for traffic.
  • Covers hostile applications, phishing links, and networks worth distrusting.
  • Acceptable on personal hardware, since private browsing never comes near us.
Piloted onZimperium
SoundsApplication conduct, links, and network conditions on the handset
Logged forDetections per handset, holding no record of private browsing
Handed toFortify 24x7 watch, any hour of the day
Charted byMobile device, monthly
Soundingper mobile device
taken each month, always up front
QTY
Honest scope

Where this chart runs out of water

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.

  • Running a fleet is not owning one. Updates, configuration, and reporting are ours. What the company chooses to deploy, and who pays the licence bills underneath it, stays a decision made on your side of the table.
  • Whatever never enrols cannot be seen. Privately owned machines that stay outside the program, and the laptop somebody carried over from a previous employer, fall beyond every line drawn here.
  • Filtering rules on categories, never on content. Destinations are refused by category and by reputation. Nothing reads what your colleagues write, and anybody determined to reach one particular address will eventually find a way around.
  • Handset coverage stops where the operating system says it does. Apple in particular caps what any security product is allowed to observe. We work within that cap and we will not suggest otherwise to win the line.
  • A dying disk is still a dying disk. Some of it gets predicted and the rest gets reported. Buying the replacement, chasing the warranty, and holding spares belong to whoever runs procurement.
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