Every information security program opens with an asset list, and at almost every small practice that list is a spreadsheet somebody quietly stopped updating in 2023. These entries replace it with a record that maintains itself: which hardware exists, who carries it, what build it runs, what updated overnight, and what has failed to report for nineteen days.
Updating attracts the attention, but the record underneath is what a programme runs on. Without it a risk assessment is invention, disposal cannot be evidenced, and nobody at the practice can answer the plainest question an examiner asks, namely how much hardware holds client information and where each piece of it sits.
N-able N-sight assembles that record from the agent instead of from memory. Hardware, build, installed programs, update status, disk encryption state, and the last time each machine reported, all refreshed without anybody maintaining it and all exportable the moment somebody asks.
Approved updates roll out against a calendar you set, third party programs included, because the reader and the browser and the archiving tool are where the interesting trouble lives. Just as valuable as the rollout is the list of what declined to install, since that list is exactly where a genuine hole is hiding.
Certain machines resist. An elderly workstation carrying a package its vendor abandoned will sit there failing forever, and automation does not repair that. You will be shown the list and told which pieces need replacing, rather than having them quietly coloured green on a dashboard.
Mac fleets in this industry tend to have accumulated rather than been deployed, one purchase at a time, managed by nobody in particular. Addigy brings them under configuration, insists on disk encryption, delivers software, and reports state beside everything else.
Handsets are the part practices leave out. A phone that reads client mail and holds the authenticator is inside your programme whether or not anybody wrote it down. Zimperium runs on the handset, which means it keeps working on networks you neither own nor can see, and those are most of the networks a phone will ever join.
Rates below are read live from the billing service. Anything you record sits on your order sheet while you carry on reading the rest of the register.
A single agent keeping the asset record true, delivering approved updates, running maintenance, and letting an engineer take a machine over when somebody is stuck and losing an afternoon.
| Supplied by | N-able N-sight, licensed through us |
|---|---|
| Machines it reaches | Windows and macOS, with Linux servers on request |
| What it updates | The build itself plus supported third party programs |
| What it reports | Assets, update status, and reporting gaps |
| Remote sessions | Attended, run by Fortify 24x7 engineers |
| Charged against | Each managed device, every month |
Name lookups and web requests filtered at the agent, so a machine leaving your office carries its policy along instead of shedding it at the door.
| Supplied by | Web protection from N-able N-sight |
|---|---|
| How it works | Lookups and requests filtered at the agent itself |
| Off the office network | Rules apply exactly the same way |
| Hardware needed | None. It uses the agent that is already installed |
| What it reports | Requests and refusals, machine by machine |
| Charged against | Each managed device, every month |
Configuration, software, and reporting across Apple hardware, which at a practice this size has generally been bought a machine at a time and looked after by nobody.
| Supplied by | Addigy |
|---|---|
| Machines it reaches | macOS, iPadOS, and iOS |
| How it enrols | Apple Business Manager, or started by the user |
| Encryption | FileVault state insisted upon and reported |
| At disposal | Locking and wiping from a distance |
| Charged against | Each Apple device, every month |
Detection running on the phone, for whichever iOS or Android hardware reads client mail, approves logins, and carries the authenticator guarding everything else.
| Supplied by | Zimperium |
|---|---|
| Machines it reaches | iOS and Android |
| How it works | Detection sits on the handset, nothing gets rerouted |
| What it studies | Applications, networks, device state, and phishing |
| Alongside | Any mobile management platform you already operate |
| Charged against | Each handset, every month |
Two columns, both of them written to be relied on. The right hand column is the one worth reading twice, because a firm that misreads it will believe an obligation is covered when it is still open.
Heads up: card statements show FORTIFY 24X7 - Equity IT Solutions is a Fortify 24x7 brand, and your subscription is billed by Fortify 24x7.
Equity IT Solutions raises no separate charge of its own, so a second line will never turn up beside that one.