No dispensary works from memory. The stock book records what is held, in what quantity, and what has moved. These four lines do the same for your hardware: what exists, what it runs, whether it is patched, and which machine has quietly stopped reporting since the last refit.
Scoping a practice almost always turns up more hardware than the person answering expected. A laptop in a store cupboard, the machine in the room nobody uses since the refit, three iPads bought for a project that ended. None of that is negligence. It is what happens to any organisation over a decade of ordinary work.
The register is worth having for its own sake, separately from any control that runs on top of it. An analysis does not conclude with roughly forty computers. Forty one machines, each carrying its operating system and its patch state, is something a person can work from.
Seldom does Apple hardware arrive by decision; it simply appears. What follows is that it sits outside whatever already manages the Windows side of the practice. Addigy brings Macs and iPads under the same register: configuration, updates, encryption state, and compliance reporting that shows the real state rather than the intended one.
Handsets are the other quiet gap. Clinicians read mail, check schedules and sometimes photograph findings on a phone. Zimperium forms its judgement on the device, with nothing routed elsewhere and nobody's private messages read, which happens to be the only shape of mobile protection staff will put up with.
Billing supplies these figures directly. Add something and it stays on your script, untouched, for the rest of the page.
Dispensing against a stock list nobody ever wrote is impossible. Keeping that register is this preparation's job: what hardware exists, what runs on it, whether patches landed, and which machine has gone quiet since the treatment room was refitted.
| Made up for | Machines the practice genuinely controls, whichever operating system |
|---|---|
| Acts on | Patch state, inventory, health, and remote hands on the device |
| Shelf life | Patch and inventory history runs the whole length of the line |
| Dispensed by | N-able N-sight, driven by Fortify 24x7 engineers |
| Counter-checked | A monthly patch report that names the misses instead of averaging |
The filtering travels in the laptop bag instead of being bolted inside a comms cupboard. A machine at a satellite clinic, a home visit or a conference gets the same policy it has at the main site, with no appliance to buy and nothing to rack.
| Made up for | Laptops that leave the building and satellite sites with no appliance |
|---|---|
| Acts on | Whatever the managed device asks DNS for, and whatever it then requests |
| Shelf life | Requests and blocks are kept while the line remains paid |
| Dispensed by | N-able N-sight, with the policy kept current by Fortify 24x7 |
| Counter-checked | Categories get reviewed with you rather than set once and forgotten |
Practices accumulate Apple hardware without deciding to: the office manager's MacBook, the iPads clinicians carry between rooms, the front desk machine somebody replaced in a hurry. Addigy brings that hardware under the same management as the rest.
| Made up for | Mac and iPad hardware that has been unmanaged for longer than anyone admits |
|---|---|
| Acts on | Configuration, updates, encryption state and app policy on Apple devices |
| Shelf life | Posture history runs the whole length of the line |
| Dispensed by | Addigy, set up and looked after by Fortify 24x7 |
| Counter-checked | Per device posture reporting, with drift named on the page |
Clinicians read mail, take call schedules and sometimes photograph wounds on a phone. Judgement gets formed on the handset: an application misbehaving, a phishing link opened somewhere other than mail, a waiting room network that deserves no trust at all.
| Made up for | Phones and tablets carrying clinical mail, schedules or images |
|---|---|
| Acts on | The handset: applications, networks joined, and links opened on it |
| Shelf life | Risk history holds for as long as the handset stays covered |
| Dispensed by | Zimperium, with the findings read by Fortify 24x7 |
| Counter-checked | A finding arrives per device with its reason attached |
Management covers devices that can be managed. A great deal of clinical hardware cannot be, and the honest thing is to say which is which at scoping rather than after the invoice.
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