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Today’s hybrid and diverse IT environments present significant challenges to effective monitoring and management. N-central is a remote monitoring and management (RMM) solution designed to simplify the task of optimizing an organization’s computing environment.

N-central offers a comprehensive SaaS solution to help organizations manage, secure, back up, and automate processes across their complete IT environment. N-central provides monitoring and management functionality in a unified platform capable of handling any cloud or on-premises computing infrastructure.

Four main functionalities form the foundation of N-central and provide companies with the features necessary to manage, secure, backup, and automate complex IT environments.

Manage

• • Audio discovery and deployment to get the platform running quickly;
  • Remote control alerting and reporting for visibility into the environment;
  • Automated patch management to ensure systems are protected with security updates;
  • Device management and remote operations for Windows, Apple, and Linux machines;
  • Management of Azure, Microsoft 365, and Apple Business environments.

Secure

• • Endpoint security and managed endpoint detection and response with SentinelOne;
  • Threat hunting and attack surface management capabilities;
  • DMS filtering and password management;
  • Behavioral AI detection engines for enhanced security;
  • Incident forensics reporting to understand how attacks occur;
  • Access to a global cloud threat repository.

Backup

• • Cloud-first backups with local options;
  • Backup Microsoft 365 data including Microsoft Teams;
  • Flexible data storage options;
  • Adaptable disaster recovery options including full image recovery and virtualization;
  • Automated recovery testing and standby images;
  • Recovery to Azure virtual machines.

Automate

• • Intelligent automation with self-healing capabilities;
  • Script guidance from GenAI;
  • A point-and-click automation user interface;
  • Automation repositories and access to over 650 scripts;
  • Automated workflows over Microsoft environments.

The base N-central solution offers organizations the following functionality which can be extended through available integrations.

• • • Comprehensive remote management for Windows, Linux, and Mac workstations, networks, servers, and mobile devices;
    • Smarter patch management utilizing automated detection and patching capabilities with flexible scheduling options and access to a large catalog of third-party patches;
    • Apple device management for macOS, iPadOS, and iOS devices including integration with Apple Business Manager;
    • Flexible automation that employs GenAI scripting, over 650 available scripts, and a user-friendly drag-and-drop management interface.

The following available integrations extend N-central’s functionality.

• • • Advanced endpoint security is provided with EDR services from SentinelOne, mass deployment capabilities, and MITRE Engenuity™ ATT&CK® evaluation.
    • Cloud-based data protection with appliance-free, direct-to-cloud backups for the complete IT environment that can lower your TCO.
    • Microsoft cloud management enables organizations to secure, standardize, and automate Microsoft 365 users and automate user onboarding and offboarding.
    • Powerful remote control capabilities provide attended and unattended tools and native iOS and Android apps to facilitate superior remote support.