Auditing and Compliance of the Corporate Device Fleet
Verifying that policies are really followed
Auditing and compliance of the corporate device fleet consists of periodically and systematically verifying that all the organization's devices really comply with the defined security policies, such as having up-to-date antivirus, active encryption and current patches, instead of assuming that the initially applied configurations remain intact over time. This matters in practice because configuration drift is common: a user may temporarily disable a control for convenience and forget to turn it back on, or a device may go weeks without connecting to the corporate network and fall out of date without anyone noticing. A concrete example is a compliance report revealing that a percentage of the company's laptops haven't applied a critical patch published a month ago, information that lets the security team prioritize following up on those specific devices before they become the entry point of an incident.