Devices that do not belong to your approved configuration — unknown machines, unauthorized peripherals, dead endpoints — are surfaced in the console.
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A personal laptop in a conference room, a rogue switch installed without a change ticket, a long-inactive workstation still on the books — each one widens the attack surface and corrupts the asset count auditors rely on.
Traditional asset discovery is a periodic event: someone runs a scan, exports a spreadsheet, and the data is already stale by the time it reaches the security team. Devices appear and disappear between scans; configurations drift between reviews. By the time a rogue machine is found manually, it may have been sitting on the network for weeks.
Rogue and unauthorized device detection in Anexet is continuous and agent-assisted. Because Anexet already collects hardware inventory from every managed endpoint, the system knows exactly what is approved — and raises an alert the moment something falls outside that baseline.
IT security teams catch unauthorized hardware in real time; IT operations keep their estate records accurate; auditors get a trustworthy configuration baseline on demand. The same endpoint data also feeds Anexet's broader IT asset inventory and software inventory, so hardware compliance and license tracking share one source of truth.
Each managed workstation also reports the Wi-Fi networks it can see, with connection type and signal level, and this shows up alongside the agent topology view in the Client Console. A device sitting on an unexpected network is another signal worth checking, on top of the hardware baseline itself.
Detection runs in real time against the approved baseline — not on a quarterly scan schedule.
The same agent that monitors activity collects hardware inventory, so the baseline is always current.
All device records and alerts stay inside your infrastructure. The vendor never sees your data.
All capabilities are part of the Hardware & Software feature set, included exclusively in the Premium plan.
Compares each connected device against the approved configuration baseline and notifies the security console when an unrecognized device is found.
Endpoints that fail to report or fall outside expected operational parameters are flagged as inoperative, preventing ghost assets from inflating inventory counts.
Continuous detection shrinks the window between a rogue device appearing and the team acting, reducing unauthorized-access exposure from unmanaged hardware.
Hardware configuration of each workstation, laptop, and server is compared against the approved spec. Deviations — added, removed, or replaced components — appear as compliance exceptions in the console.
Monitors, multimedia devices, keyboards, network adapters, portable devices, CPU, RAM, disk drives, and power supplies are all tracked per endpoint for granular component-level visibility.
Full estate scope: desktops, notebooks, and servers are all enrolled in the inventory baseline against which rogue detection runs.
Detected devices are placed on the office map in the Client Console, so the physical location of an unauthorized device can be traced quickly by the IT security or operations team.
The same device data that powers rogue detection feeds inventory reports, giving auditors and compliance officers a verified hardware baseline ready for review.
Every Wi-Fi network a managed workstation detects is listed in the Client Console with its connection type and signal level, so an unauthorized device found on an unexpected network is easier to place and prioritize.
A topology view of deployed agents shows which Wi-Fi networks endpoints connect to across the estate, giving the security team a single picture instead of checking devices one by one.
All detection capabilities require the Premium plan. Our team confirms the exact scope for your environment during the demo.
The Anexet agent on each managed endpoint continuously reports its hardware state — installed components and connected peripherals — to the on-premise Inventory Server. Any device that appears outside the enrolled baseline is flagged immediately in the Client Console, with the physical location shown on the office map so the IT team can act without a manual walkthrough.
All device records, alerts, and configuration baselines are stored inside your infrastructure. Anexet is deployed on-premise; the vendor has no access to your data. There is no cloud sync, no external telemetry, and no dependency on the vendor's availability.
The same agent reports the Wi-Fi networks visible to the workstation — connection type and signal level — and the Client Console's agent topology view lays that out across the whole estate, adding network context to a device or configuration alert without any separate network scan.
Four steps from endpoint enrollment to a verified, audit-ready hardware baseline.
Baseline enrollment: the Anexet agent collects a full hardware inventory from each managed endpoint — the machine itself, installed components, and connected peripherals — creating the approved configuration record in the Client Console.
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Continuous comparison: the on-premise Inventory Server compares reported hardware states against the approved baseline; any device or component that falls outside the enrolled set is flagged immediately.
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Alert and visualization: the Client Console surfaces unauthorized and non-functioning devices as alerts in the Hardware & Software section, with the office map pinpointing the physical location of each anomaly and the agent topology view showing the Wi-Fi networks each endpoint connects to.
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Audit and remediation: security and IT operations teams review flagged device records, compare against change-management logs, mark as approved or initiate removal, and retain all device events on-premise as an audit trail.
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Baseline enrollment: the Anexet agent collects a full hardware inventory from each managed endpoint — the machine itself, installed components, and connected peripherals — creating the approved configuration record in the Client Console.
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Continuous comparison: the on-premise Inventory Server compares reported hardware states against the approved baseline; any device or component that falls outside the enrolled set is flagged immediately.
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Alert and visualization: the Client Console surfaces unauthorized and non-functioning devices as alerts in the Hardware & Software section, with the office map pinpointing the physical location of each anomaly and the agent topology view showing the Wi-Fi networks each endpoint connects to.
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Audit and remediation: security and IT operations teams review flagged device records, compare against change-management logs, mark as approved or initiate removal, and retain all device events on-premise as an audit trail.
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Common questions about rogue and unauthorized device detection in Anexet.
Rogue device detection identifies hardware on your network or estate that is not part of the approved inventory baseline — unknown machines, unauthorized peripherals, or equipment installed without a change ticket. Every unmanaged device is a potential entry point for attackers or a compliance gap for auditors. Continuous detection closes that gap faster than periodic manual scans.
No. Rogue and unauthorized device detection is part of the Hardware & Software module, which is included exclusively in the Premium plan. Standard provides core employee activity monitoring; Advanced adds DLP capabilities; Premium is the all-in-one plan that adds Inventory and the full Anexet Ultimate feature set.
Anexet is deployed on-premise; the vendor has no access to your data. All inventory records, device alerts, and configuration baselines are stored inside your infrastructure and never leave your environment.
Anexet tracks the full hardware estate: PCs, laptops, and servers as top-level assets, plus monitors, multimedia devices, keyboards, network adapters, portable devices, CPU, RAM, disk drives, and power supplies at the component level. Any device or component that does not match the approved configuration baseline is surfaced as an exception.
IT asset inventory is the broader capability that records what hardware exists and its configuration. Rogue device detection is the security-oriented layer on top: it compares the live estate against the approved baseline and raises an alert when something is out of place. Both are part of the same Hardware & Software module in the Premium plan and share the same data — the distinction is the intent and the audience (IT-security and compliance vs. IT operations).
Configuration-compliance verification — comparing each endpoint's installed components against the approved spec — is part of the Hardware & Software module, available in the Premium plan.
No — detection works at the endpoint inventory level, not through network scanning. Every managed endpoint runs the Anexet agent, which reports its own hardware state — the machine itself, installed components, and connected peripherals — to the on-premise Inventory Server. A device counts as rogue when it appears outside that agent-reported baseline (an unrecognized component connected to a managed PC) or when an enrolled device stops reporting as expected. Anexet does not probe the network for unmanaged devices that have no agent installed.
Yes. Each managed workstation reports the Wi-Fi networks it can see, along with connection type and signal level, and this is laid out in the Client Console's agent topology view alongside the office map. This adds network context to a hardware anomaly — for example, noticing that a flagged device sits on an unexpected network — but it is still endpoint-reported visibility, not a scan of the wider network.
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