PVYdevices consist of multiple compoments:
Based but enhanced from the Open Source Project OSquery, you can download as PVYdevices User within your PVYcentral Management Concole the Package Installers for PVYdevices for:
All Installers are being automatically signed with your own Domain.tld you have assigned to your PVY@Cloud Services or PVY@Office Appliance, so they also pass macOS Gatekeeper or Windows Firewall Settings properly, without adding an exception for it.
We made it quite simple. As PVY-ID Admin of your Organization or Family, you have access to your dedicated PVYcentral (usually like central.mydomain.tld) where you have on the “Manage Application” Menu the Options for PVYdevices. Since you are free to chose the Domain and Subdomain for some our PVYapps on your own Environment, you will have to generate your own Device Installers, with following Parameters:
After you saved that, the System will generate your own PVYdevice Agent Package Installer, certified for the Operating Systems above listed. Once they are built, you will find them in the Section “Downloads” for PVYdevices and it will remain your history with the last 4 Digits of your Enrollment Secret and the Build Date, and Package Installer Version made of it.
It’s a common practice, that you may generate different enrollment Secret, and map these internally to a certain Host Group or OS Group, so if you have an internal skilled IT Team, you can give them access to these Installer Package, based on the Host they manage, and they can deploy it accordingly.
If you are a small company, and let say you want to secure around 20 Hosts in Total only, it is also fine, to use only one Enrollment Secret.
Empowering Cyber-Security and Policy Management doesn’t let you become a Spy. Please read more about what the Agent can see, what Information its getting collected and share this Transparency Report within your employees. They will appreciate that.
The Agent collects Data and ship these Data to PVYdevices Server, where the Transport of these Data is encrypted and by default behind PVYvpn access only. By Default, its update the collected data every hour. A Sys Admin can trigger an Update or Data retrieval in case of an Incidient or Thread going on, manually from the Web Console, but you as user you have access to excactly the same UI and you see exactly the same Metrics, Failed or Passed Policy Checks or Ongoing Queries.
The Icon also indicates, if there is any Action from your side necessary, since Sys Admin can puh you “Guide Lines” or How To Instruction over the Modal Popup. If you can’t accomplish these Tasks by your self, and if configured, you can raise instantly a Support Ticket to get Help on that, with the Button: Create Support-Ticket.
PVYdevice Agents sends logs about enabled policies within a 10 second intervall. Inventory scans about enrolled Software Apps on Users are being quered every hour. These kind of settings, the SysAdmin can change on Agent Settings, before he builds the Agents being deployed, but also after, on PVYdevices Server, you can update for each host these settings individual.
Measurements based on a modern Apple Macbook Pro 16", with 520 installed Software Packages, shows up, that during a full working day, the PVYdevice Agent is not consuming more than 3% of the Battery. If your device Battery is not the newest anymore and lacks performance, we highly recommend to change the battery first, then lower the intervals.