Ask what software runs in your business and you will get the big names: the accounting package, Microsoft 365, the practice or dispatch system. Ask what is actually installed on the twenty-three computers in the building and the honest answer is "no idea". That gap is where problems live.
What turns up
- Remote-access tools installed by a previous provider, still listening.
- Trial software that expired and never left.
- Browser extensions with permission to read every page.
- Three versions of the same PDF reader, two of them unpatched.
- Applications that are unlicensed without anyone intending it.
Why an inventory is a security control
You cannot patch what you do not know about, and you cannot remove what you have not found. Every item on that list is either a door to close or a maintenance job to schedule. An inventory turns "we think we're fine" into a list with a status next to each line.
How we do it
Inventory is the first step of every onboarding: every device, every application, every version, every licence — gathered automatically by the management tools we deploy and kept current from then on. It is the least visible part of managed IT, and one of the reasons a Spicsoft-managed environment is smaller, tidier and harder to get into than it was before we arrived.
