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Latest — 04 Nov 2025

Why XAV Becomes Your Richest Source of Historical Endpoint Data

Beyond coverage verification — toward a living, historical inventory. Most IT and security teams think of Cross-Agent Verification (XAV) as a way to see what’s missing — to catch endpoints where critical agents have gone dark, fallen out of compliance, or failed to check in. But in practice, XAV evolves into

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The Hidden Half-Life of Endpoint Data, and How XAV Keeps It Fresh

IT teams trust their dashboards to tell them what’s happening right now. But in reality, those dashboards are showing you what happened some time ago. Even in well-managed environments, your central management platforms — RMMs, MDMs, vulnerability scanners, compliance dashboards — operate on data that is already aging. They collect snapshots

Why Agent Drift Is a Reliability Problem — and How XAV Fixes It

Most IT teams treat agent drift as a security issue — a missing XDR, an outdated MDM profile, or a monitoring client that hasn’t checked in for weeks. But by the time it’s visible to security, it’s already been an operations problem for a long time. Reliability starts

Why XAV Matters: Blind Spots Your RMM or MDM Can’t See

Most IT and security teams trust their RMM or MDM to tell them what’s installed across their fleet. You pull up the console and run a report, and see every required agent listed. XDR, DNS filter, remote control, SIEM agent, the works. From that view it looks like every

What is a XAV Platform?

Cross-Agent Verification (XAV) platforms are a new way to verify that the agents meant to protect and manage your endpoints are actually there: installed, healthy, updated, and reporting. In most IT and security environments every device is expected to run a long list of agents: your XDR, RMM, MDM, Log

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