A household collects hardware the way a tour collects road cases. A work phone and a family phone, an assistant's laptop, a tablet on the kitchen counter, the machine in the studio, and the old iPad the children inherited that is somehow still signed into everything. These four lines are about knowing what exists, keeping it current, and putting something worthwhile on the handset that never leaves your side.
Nobody gets in cleverly. They come in through a laptop three months behind, a browser from another era, or a plug in that nobody recalls agreeing to. N-able N-sight covers watching a machine, patching it, running scripts on it, and taking it over remotely, all from one agent. Somebody can put a machine right without a car journey to wherever you happen to be that week.
Filtering rides along on the same agent. Nothing gets installed in the house, nothing gets racked in a cupboard, and no home broadband is touched. The line is per device, so it goes wherever the laptop goes rather than staying at one address.
Most of this world runs on Apple hardware, which is what Addigy is for: settings enforced, compliance actually checked, and Macs and iPads managed properly instead of somebody being asked nicely to install an update before the weekend.
Zimperium is the handset line, and for the people we look after it is often the one that matters most. Your phone holds the schedule, the group chats, the photographs, and the codes that unlock everything else. The agent sits on the device and watches for malware, phishing, and applications doing things they have no business doing.
The rates underneath arrive from billing as this page opens. Anything you set is held in the running order meanwhile.
This is the floor under a managed machine. It gets watched, it stays current, it can be worked on from a distance, and it appears in an inventory rather than in somebody's memory of what was bought when.
| Made by | N-able N-sight |
|---|---|
| Runs where | Machines on Windows, macOS, or Linux |
| Includes | Watching, patching, scripting, and remote support |
| Inventory | Hardware and installed software recorded per device |
| Handsets | Basic device management for phones rides on this line |
| Counted | One per managed device |
Filtering that goes where the device goes. Known bad destinations are refused before a connection is made, on whatever network the machine happens to be using.
| Made by | N-able N-sight |
|---|---|
| What it is | Web security, content filtering, bandwidth reporting |
| Where it works | Wherever the device is, on anybody's network |
| Hardware | None to install |
| Needs | The monitoring line running on that same machine |
| Counted | One per managed device |
Apple hardware handled as a fleet: settings enforced, compliance checked, and a way to act on a device that has walked off rather than hoping somebody hands it back.
| Made by | Addigy |
|---|---|
| Runs where | macOS and iOS |
| What it is | Configuration enforcement and compliance control |
| Getting on | Enrolment links, or automatically on eligible hardware |
| Sits with | The monitoring and handset lines, on the same devices |
| Counted | One per Apple device |
Protection on the phone rather than somewhere upstream of the phone. It looks at applications, at network behaviour, and at phishing arriving through whichever app happens to be open.
| Made by | Zimperium |
|---|---|
| Runs where | iOS and Android handsets |
| Looks for | Malware, phishing, risky applications, network attacks |
| Where it sits | On the device, and it keeps working offline |
| Privacy | It looks at threats, not at your messages or your photographs |
| Counted | One per mobile device |
Looking after devices is the least glamorous thing on this site and the most likely to change your odds. It still has hard edges.
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