State of Layer 1 Visibility 2026.
Aggregated, anonymized findings from CybrIQ customer deployments across healthcare, financial services, federal, retail, higher education, and the AV integrator channel. What the wire showed, what the asset registers missed, and where Layer 1 is now closing audit findings that have lingered for a decade.
Six headline findings.
The full report runs 28 pages. The summary below is the public version of what we are seeing across the customer base. Specific deployment numbers (per-customer device counts, finding categories, audit-cycle outcomes) are anonymized and aggregated; no customer is identifiable from the report.
Asset registers undercount the wire by roughly 22%.
Across CybrIQ deployments, the median asset register identified about 78% of the devices the platform fingerprinted on the wire. The remaining 22% — vendor-managed gear, contractor equipment, downstream gear behind unmanaged switches, recently-installed-and-not-logged hardware — is the population the audit firm finds first.
Audit-prep windows collapse by 70–85% on first cycle.
Customers running a continuous Layer 1 record reduce pre-audit reconstruction work by an average of 70% in the first cycle and up to 85% by the second. The Fortune 500 healthcare reference engagement collapsed prep from six weeks to four days; mid-market customers track between 60% and 75% reduction depending on framework breadth.
One unmanaged switch behind a port resolves to 3–4 additional devices on average.
When a network drop has an unmanaged switch behind it, the wire shows an average of 3.4 devices per registered port. CybrIQ deployments routinely surface single ports with 10+ devices behind them; one customer engagement found a port resolving to 65 distinct devices the asset register listed as one.
NDAA-prohibited components are present in roughly 1 in 8 federal-adjacent program offices we have surveyed.
Across federal contractor program offices CybrIQ has fingerprinted, an estimated 12% contain at least one NDAA Section 889 covered component embedded inside a relabeled product (camera, signage controller, NVR). The paper trail clears 889; the silicon does not. Layer 1 catches the difference.
3–4% of vendor-managed devices show fingerprint anomalies on first scan.
Vendor-managed equipment (codecs, signage, kiosks, biomed gear) shows a small but consistent rate of fingerprint anomalies — typically components swapped under RMA without paperwork update, or upstream firmware changes the customer was not notified about. Each one a vendor-risk question Layer 1 surfaces and the paper trail does not.
Inventory-completeness audit findings drop to zero after two CybrIQ-supported cycles.
Customers running CybrIQ alongside their audit program for two complete cycles consistently close the inventory-completeness finding category. The third cycle becomes "no findings" on what was previously a recurring finding. The shift is structural — the evidence is the wire, not a reconstruction.
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Methodology
All findings in the report are derived from continuous Layer 1 telemetry collected during the first 90 days of CybrIQ deployments at customer sites. Customer identities are not disclosed. Aggregate numbers are derived from a representative sample of deployments across the CybrIQ customer base; specific per-customer numbers cited in the report (e.g., 312 devices found, 11 NDAA-prohibited components) are confirmed engagement metrics with the customer's permission to publish anonymously. The report does not include findings from customers who declined to be aggregated.
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