Most offices are honestly unsure how many computers they own. Somewhere there is a laptop months behind on updates, a Mac nobody has ever managed, and a phone reading company mail with the screen lock switched off. Four posts, aimed at the plain work of knowing and keeping.
The flaws used against small business are rarely exotic. They are months old, publicly written up, and already fixed by a vendor who shipped the update. What is missing is somebody whose job it is to confirm the update landed on all sixty machines and to chase the four that failed.
N-able N-sight does the counting and the applying: inventory, updates covering the operating system plus the third party software everybody runs, scripting, warnings about hardware that is about to quit, and a remote session when hands are needed. Filtering rides along inside it, so nothing gets racked and nothing gets re-pointed when a laptop leaves the building.
A Mac run through a Windows tool is a Mac nobody is really managing. Addigy is built for Apple hardware: enrollment, configuration, updates, and policy that respects how the platform actually works instead of fighting it.
Phones are the same story told again. A handset reading company mail is a company machine whether or not anybody wants to say so out loud. Zimperium sits on the device and judges what is happening there, including on networks you do not control and on a phone that never touches your office.
Each rate below comes from billing the moment the page opens. Anything under this district drops into your roster while you read on.
The plain work of keeping machines counted, current, and watched, with somebody able to take a session when a person is stuck.
| Runs on | Whatever N-able N-sight installs on the machine |
|---|---|
| Hardware | Windows and Linux |
| Patching | The operating system, plus the common third party software |
| Warns on | Disk, memory, services, and the health of the hardware |
| Hands on | Attended sessions when somebody needs hands |
| Billed per | Managed device, each month |
Name resolution and web categories filtered on the machine, so the rule travels with the laptop instead of stopping at the office door.
| Runs on | Filtering carried inside the same N-able N-sight install |
|---|---|
| Sits | On the machine, so the rule rides along with the laptop |
| Stops | Known malicious destinations and the categories you choose |
| Kit | None. No appliance and no re-pointed network |
| You receive | What was blocked, on which machine, and when |
| Billed per | Managed device, each month |
Apple hardware managed by a tool built for Apple hardware, which is what separates a Mac that is enrolled from a Mac that is merely counted.
| Runs on | Addigy |
|---|---|
| Kit | Mac, and Apple mobile hardware where enrolled |
| Policy | Profiles, restrictions, and update policy |
| Delivery | Distribution and version control for Apple applications |
| Hands on | Remote help without leaving the Apple tooling |
| Billed per | Apple device, each month |
Protection that lives on the handset and keeps deciding on networks you will never see, because the phone reading company mail is a company machine.
| Runs on | Zimperium |
|---|---|
| Kit | Handsets and tablets running iOS or Android |
| Sits | On the device itself, deciding locally |
| Draws from | Network, device integrity, applications, and hostile links |
| Personal data | Aimed at the threat, not at reading personal content |
| Billed per | Mobile device, each month |
Knowing and keeping is honest work with honest limits. Here is what these four posts do not reach.
Heads up: card statements show FORTIFY 24X7 - Red White and Blue Networks is a Fortify 24x7 brand, and your subscription is billed by Fortify 24x7.