Patching state
Which devices are current, which are behind, and which have not reported at all. The last category is the one that matters.
Cyber Security
24/7 Protection For Devices
A laptop nobody can account for still holds credentials and cached data, and it is almost certainly unpatched. We monitor every device you own, including the ones that have quietly stopped reporting.
What this protects
The devices you can no longer see
An estate is only as safe as the machines nobody is watching. Forgotten laptops hold credentials, cached data and a way in.
Devices that go dark
A laptop that stopped reporting weeks ago is broken, decommissioned, or somewhere it should not be. All three are worth knowing.
A stolen laptop
Encryption and escrowed recovery keys turn a theft into an inconvenience rather than a breach you have to report.
The forgotten machine
Spare and old kit carries credentials long after anyone remembers it exists. Monitoring brings it back into view.
The devices you have forgotten are the risk
Almost every estate we inherit has devices nobody can account for. A laptop belonging to someone who left. A test machine under a desk. A spare in a cupboard that was joined to the domain in 2020 and never removed.
Those devices matter for two reasons. They hold credentials and cached data, and they are almost certainly unpatched. They are also invisible to any security review that relies on asking people what they have.
Continuous monitoring means every enrolled device is visible, its state is known, and anything that stops reporting gets investigated rather than gradually forgotten.
What we watch
Disk encryption
Confirms encryption is enabled and the recovery key is escrowed, so a stolen laptop is an inconvenience rather than a breach.
Protection status
Confirms the endpoint agent is installed, running and updating, rather than disabled by whoever got tired of the pop-ups.
Health and capacity
Failing disks, memory pressure and low storage, so hardware is replaced during a planned window rather than at 4pm on a Friday.
Indicators of compromise
Unusual process behaviour, unexpected administrative tooling and signs that a device is being used as a stepping stone.
Unmanaged devices
We will also monitor kit you own that we did not supply, so long as it can report anything at all.
Questions we get asked about 24/7 Protection For Devices
In most cases yes. We will confirm what is capable of reporting during the health check rather than assuming.
They can be covered for email and data access through policy, without us controlling the whole device. It is a different arrangement to a fully managed laptop, and the trade-offs are worth talking through.
Continuously for security-relevant events, and periodically for health and inventory. You are not sending us your users' screens.
They overlap but are not the same. Endpoint protection detects and blocks. Device monitoring confirms the estate is in the state you think it is, which is a different question.
We investigate. A laptop that has not reported for weeks is either broken, decommissioned, or somewhere it should not be, and all three are worth knowing about.
Not sure whether you need 24/7 protection for devices?
Book a free 60-minute health check. We will tell you what you actually need, including when the answer is nothing.