Article · 8 min · Inventory Accuracy
The asset register lies.
Why the spreadsheet drifts from the wire on day one and never reconciles on its own. The structural case for treating the network as the source of truth.
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Layer 1 Visibility for AV Networks
Your AV network has more devices than anyone has counted.
CybrIQ inventories every device on every switch port, in every conference room and every building. It verifies what each one really is at the wire, surfaces what does not belong, and produces the evidence the audit asks for. The result is a continuously maintained Layer 1 record your security team and your auditor can both work from.
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The Visibility Gap
Where the next audit finding lives.
NAC and asset spreadsheets see the network at Layer 2 and above. AV traffic, unmanaged switches, and contractor gear sit below that line. That gap is where the audit findings come from, and where the attacker walks in.
01
The asset register lies.
The spreadsheet says ten devices in the boardroom. The wire shows fourteen. The four nobody listed are the ones the auditor will find first.
02
NAC stops at Layer 2.
Network access control sees what's on the corporate VLAN. It does not see the cheap unmanaged switch a contractor plugged into the AV closet at 4 PM on a Tuesday.
03
"Looks good" does not survive an audit.
A clean environmental dashboard and a control-system green light are not Layer 1 evidence. Compliance asks for the wire. Most programs cannot produce it.
Why the Gap Is Growing
More devices in the same rooms, every year.
Industry trendlines from IBM, Verizon DBIR, and Gartner forecasts show breach activity rising 10–15% annually, a 2–3× increase over the next seven years. Most of that growth is unmanaged and IoT devices already inside enterprise networks. Conference rooms are not getting more numerous. The devices inside them are.
Count, in millions
2020 — 2032
~5%
Annual conference-room growth (AVIXA, enterprise meeting-space data).
~13%
Annual growth in connected devices inside those rooms (Cisco, AVIXA, enterprise collaboration platforms).
3:1 → 7:1
Devices per room today vs the 2032 trajectory. The ratio is the gap, and it compounds.
Trendlines and forecasts: IBM Cost of a Data Breach 2024, Verizon DBIR 2024, Gartner cyber forecasts, Cisco enterprise networking trends, AVIXA Industry Outlook and Trends Analysis. Device-growth modeling reflects the ratio of connected devices to physical meeting spaces inside enterprise environments.
The Cost of the Gap
What the gap actually costs.
Three numbers from the public record. Specific, sourced, and the reason CybrIQ exists.
$4.4M
Average total cost of a data breach. Healthcare and financial services average above $10M.
IBM Cost of a Data Breach 2024.
IBM Cost of a Data Breach 2024.
~40%
Of IoT and unmanaged devices on enterprise networks are missing from the asset register.
Industry research: Nozomi Networks 2025, NIST IoT incident data.
Industry research: Nozomi Networks 2025, NIST IoT incident data.
6 wk → 4 day
Audit prep without a Layer 1 record vs with one. The healthcare reference engagement made the swap on a single hospital campus.
CybrIQ engagement, anonymized.
CybrIQ engagement, anonymized.
AI is making the gap more expensive, faster
+32%
Year-over-year increase in AI-assisted identity attacks reported in early 2025.
+46%
Increase in ransomware on OT and IoT systems in 2025, often using unmanaged devices as the entry point.
6.5 hrs
Average downtime per IoT-connected cyberattack incident.
$2.2M
Average breach-cost reduction at organizations with mature device-visibility programs.
Sources: IBM Cost of a Data Breach Report 2024 · Verizon DBIR 2024 · Nozomi Networks OT/IoT Security Report 2025 · Microsoft Digital Defense Report 2024 · NIST IoT incident data.
Two Products on One Platform
One Layer 1 record. Two ways to deploy it.
RoomIQ runs at the room level and validates every device behind every codec, switch, and display. SpacesIQ extends the same Device DNA™ to every switch port in every building. Same record, different scope.
RoomIQ
Conference-room security at Layer 1.
For AV integrators and security teams who need every device behind the codec accounted for.
- Device DNA™ fingerprinting for every endpoint behind the room's network drop
- Continuous validation when something gets added, swapped, or unplugged
- Per-room audit evidence integrators and CISOs can both sign off on
- Ships as a recurring SKU integrators can sell with every Crestron, Extron, Poly by HP, or Q-SYS room
SpacesIQ
Building-wide Layer 1 visibility.
If it plugs in anywhere in your building, SpacesIQ knows.
- Every switch port, every floor across every building in the portfolio
- Real-time fingerprinting of unmanaged, contractor, and silent devices
- Single source of truth for what's actually on the network right now
- Audit-ready evidence for HIPAA, PCI, SOC 2, NIST, and CMMC posture
How It Works
Detect. Correct. Protect.
Three operating modes, running continuously, on every device on the wire.
Engineered for the AV integrator channel
Crestron
Extron
Q-SYS
Poly by HP
Neat
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Who Buys CybrIQ
Three buyers, one underlying record.
The integrator, the security leader, and the compliance lead each ask their own version of what is actually on this network right now? CybrIQ answers all three from the same underlying Layer 1 record, in the language each buyer uses to make the call.
AV Integrators
A recurring SKU on every room you ship.
RoomIQ adds an attached, recurring revenue line to every Crestron, Extron, Q-SYS, Poly, or Neat install. It also gives you the answer when the customer's CISO asks how the room is secured.
Security Leaders
Layer 1 evidence the board will accept.
NAC and EDR see what they can see. CybrIQ sees the rest. When the question is "what's actually on the network?", you can answer in seconds, with a document, not a story.
Compliance & GRC
Audit-defensible per-device evidence.
HIPAA, PCI, SOC 2, NIST, CMMC. CybrIQ produces a per-device, per-port, per-room record the audit can take at face value. No more reconstructing the inventory the night before the visit.
Reference Engagement · Fortune 500 Healthcare
One campus. One Wednesday.
312
Unmanaged or unidentified devices found by Friday.
47
Missing from the asset register entirely.
6 wk → 4 day
Audit reconstruction project, collapsed to an evidence-pack review.
A Fortune 500 healthcare system ran SpacesIQ on a single hospital campus, starting Wednesday. The numbers above came out of the first sweep. Engagement anonymized at the customer's request.
Your First 90 Days with CybrIQ
From scoped meeting to audit-ready, in a quarter.
Most security platforms take a quarter to install and another quarter before they produce anything useful. CybrIQ returns a real device inventory inside the first week. The shape of the first 90 days at a typical mid-market customer is below.
Day 1
Scope.
A 30-minute working session. We agree on one room or one building to start. You bring the environment, we bring the platform. No new hardware to procure on day one.
Week 1
First inventory.
Device DNA™ runs against the agreed scope. By Friday you have a complete inventory and the first set of drift events flagged. The number that comes back is almost never the number on the spreadsheet.
Month 1
Continuous operation.
Drift detection is live. Events surface inside the response window your team agreed to. The first audit-evidence pack is generated and reviewed against the framework you report on.
Quarter 1
Audit-ready, portfolio-wide.
Per-device, per-port, per-floor history is available on demand, mapped to whichever framework the audit asks about. The pre-audit reconstruction project is gone for good.
Latest from CybrIQ
What's new.
- 2026-05 Case study published. Fortune 500 healthcare, 312 devices found on the first sweep, audit prep collapsed from six weeks to four days.
- 2026-05 30-day pilot program named. Scoped, time-bound proof on one of your environments. No pilot fee; you provide the appliance.
- 2026-06 InfoComm 2026 booth open for booking. Pre-book a working session at C5052 in Las Vegas, June 13–19.
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The case, in three articles.
Short pieces written for the executive who has to defend the decision internally. Each runs under ten minutes.
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