Fleets baselined individually, not as one noisy blur.
A thousand identical sensors are not one asset. Treated as a group they hide the single compromised unit inside an average. NetworkFort gives every device its own record, which is the only way a fleet of that size stays legible.
Averages hide the one that matters.
IoT devices cannot run agents, rarely get patched and often outlive the vendor. Behavioural watching is the realistic option.
Per-device baselines
Each unit carries its own history, so one drifting from its cohort is immediately visible.
Passive discovery
Devices are found by listening. Nothing needs credentials or an installed agent.
Class grouping
Devices grouped by observed behaviour, so cohort comparison actually means something.
Firmware drift
A device whose traffic changes after an update is flagged, including silent updates.
Recruitment happens quietly.
Compromised IoT is usually recruited rather than exploited loudly, and recruitment changes traffic patterns first.
- Botnet enlistmentNew outbound destinations from a device that has only ever spoken to one controller.
- Lateral pivotsA sensor attempting to reach IT infrastructure it has no business touching.
- Volume anomaliesData rates that no unit in this class has ever produced.
How a large fleet stays legible.
Four practices that keep tens of thousands of devices manageable.
Discover continuously
New units appear in the inventory the moment they transmit.
Class automatically
Behavioural fingerprinting assigns a class without manual tagging.
Score against cohort
Deviation is measured against the class, not against a global average.
Escalate by exception
Only units that break their own and their cohort's pattern surface.
What the baseline returns.
Figures from live engagements in this sector.
Said by someone who runs it.
A representative account of a NetworkFort engagement in this sector.
We thought we had about three thousand devices on the plant network. The first inventory came back with just over four thousand, and nobody could account for the difference.
Sector-specific answers.
The objections that come up in every one of these conversations.
Does this need an agent on each device?
How many devices can it handle?
What about devices that only speak occasionally?
Can it isolate a single device?
Find out what is actually on your network.
A passive discovery run against one segment, and an honest device count.