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You already own four things that were supposed to tell you.
Each of them answers its own question well. None was built to answer this one. This page covers what falls between them, and it names no competitor.
| What you own | What it sees | What it was never built to see |
|---|---|---|
| Network access control | Anything that signs on to the corporate network the proper way, with an identity. | The contractor's switch in the AV closet, and the four devices behind it. They never sign on to anything. |
| Endpoint protection | Laptops, servers, phones: anything that can run its software. | Most of a meeting room. A camera, a badge reader and a signage player all refuse an agent. |
| The asset register | What purchasing wrote down the day each item was bought. | Everything bought outside purchasing, everything replaced under warranty, and everything that moved. On one campus it accounted for roughly two thirds of what was live. |
| Your own drawings | Whatever was true on the afternoon somebody drew them. | Every change since. Which is why each job now starts by working out which document is lying. |
| CybrIQ | What is electrically present on every port right now, and how sure we are about each one. | Anything not connected to a managed switch we can read. We say so and it lowers the coverage figure. |
This does not replace any of the four.
Access control and endpoint protection keep doing their jobs, and the register stays where finance looks for it. What none of them has is a physical record of what is plugged in, and each one quietly assumes that somebody else in the building is keeping that record up to date.
It also does not enforce. Nothing we ship blocks, quarantines or remediates, so it does not compete with the tool that does.
If your access control and your asset register disagree, neither one can settle it. Only the switch can.
One switch will tell you whether the gap is real here.
Point a discovery pass at a single switch and hold the result against your register. An afternoon is enough. The difference is hard to argue with.