Then Apple’s iOS launched support for Mac Address Randomization, which prevents many IT scanning solutions from identifying or recognizing a device. A critical aspect of creating an IT asset inventory that’s always accurate and up to date is identifying and recognizing the devices – the type, brand and model, and the specific device, as well. To maintain security – both physical and cyber – businesses must be able to track the people and devices accessing the corporate network at all times.
What’s more, roughly 75% of employees use their personal smartphones for work, and 80% of companies believe mobile phones are necessary for their employees to do their jobs. Since around 2010, the Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) trend has exploded, and today 83% of companies have a BYOD policy of some kind. Over the past decade – and in two years in particular, as remote working became a predominant trend due to the Pandemic – tracking a growing number of employees’ mobile and personal devices became an imperative. Our goal is to give businesses all the information they need to ensure the health and security of every device on their network, and optimize costs across the technology infrastructure. Lansweeper, is in the business of IT discovery, and has been the market leader in device recognition since acquiring Fing in October, 2020. Despite new regulations such as GDPR, CCPA and others being rolled out in recent years, we’re still being tracked – but not all of that tracking is a bad thing. Personal privacy is important to all of us, and with businesses collecting data at unprecedented rates for innumerable use cases, our privacy is in question.
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