The organization
A healthcare organization whose environment had grown over years of new systems, devices, and clinical equipment, faster than any inventory kept up.
Asset Visibility · Case study
A healthcare organization finds out what is actually on its network
A healthcare organization could not say with confidence what was connected to its network, and every security decision suffered for it. FioSec deployed asset discovery with a real-time, continuously updated inventory, so protecting the environment now starts from facts instead of guesses.
The situation
What prompted it
Every security conversation kept hitting the same wall: nobody could say exactly what was on the network. Records disagreed, spreadsheets were out of date the week they were finished, and devices kept turning up that nobody remembered connecting. Patching, monitoring, and incident response all depend on knowing what exists, so the organization brought in FioSec to solve the asset problem first.
What FioSec did
Each step maps to a layer of the Layered Defence model: vendor-agnostic by design, described by the control it delivers rather than any one product.
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You cannot protect what you cannot see
We deployed asset discovery across the environment, identifying what was actually connected rather than what the records said should be, including devices that never appear in a traditional endpoint console.
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Every device, accounted for
Discovered devices were identified and classified: managed workstations and servers, network equipment, and the unmanaged and clinical devices that traditional tools overlook.
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From inventory to action
With a real inventory in place, the findings fed directly into security work: unknown devices investigated and brought under management, and vulnerability management finally operating against the full picture instead of a partial one.
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Keeping it current
Discovery runs continuously rather than as a one-time audit, so the inventory stays accurate as the environment changes instead of decaying back into a spreadsheet.
The outcome
The organization has a single, continuously updated inventory of what is connected to its network, for the first time.
Devices nobody knew about were identified, investigated, and brought under management.
Patching, monitoring, and response decisions now start from facts about the real environment instead of estimates.
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