Lansweeper discovers every device connecting to and communicating on your network, including the ones nobody told it to look for. Shadow IT, OT, IoT, and cloud assets are surfaced before they become incidents.
Complete Discovery
Traditional discovery only finds what it’s told to look for. Traffic sensor passively observes every device communicating on your network, no scan ranges required. Contractor laptops, transient connections, and devices in unscoped subnets are surfaced as they appear, with zero disruption to OT environments.
Discovery Coverage
Lansweeper organizes your environment into named IP ranges and scores how completely each one is identified. You see which segments active scanning has never reached and which devices remain partially profiled, so discovery effort focuses where it actually closes gaps.
Risk-Based Classification
Every discovered asset is enriched with lifecycle, vulnerability, exposure, and business context. Risk is scored on escalation potential and internet exposure, so remediation focuses on the small set of shadow assets that meaningfully reduce risk.
Orchestration
Lansweeper connects directly to ITSM, security, and patching tools so shadow asset data flows where work happens.
How it works
Discover every asset, understand what’s at risk, and push trusted data to the tools that take action.
Continuously discover and classify every asset across IT, OT, cloud, and IoT — managed, unmanaged, and shadow — without manual effort.
Normalize and apply context, vulnerability data, and lifecycle signals to assess risk, forecast spend, and surface optimization opportunities.
Deliver trusted asset intelligence to ITSM, CMDB, and security tools so actions are accurate, scoped, and prioritized.
INTEGRATIONS
Lansweeper feeds trusted, continuously updated asset intelligence into the tools that take action.
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Lansweeper combines two complementary discovery methods. Active and agent-based scanning covers everything inside your defined scope with deep context, including credential-less device recognition for restricted environments.
Traffic sensor extends that coverage by passively observing every device that communicates on the network, surfacing assets outside any predefined scan range, including contractor equipment, transient devices, and shadow IT in subnets nobody thought to include. Traffic sensor runs continuously and is non-disruptive, making it safe for OT environments where active scanning is too risky.
Together they deliver continuous, evidence-based discovery of every shadow asset.
Shadow IT and shadow OT refer to any device, application, or system connected to an organization’s environment without being formally tracked, governed, or secured by IT. This includes unsanctioned SaaS apps, personal devices, unmanaged cloud workloads, and operational technology connected outside IT’s standard scope.
The risk grows quietly: every unknown asset is a blind spot for vulnerability scanning, access controls, and audit reporting.
Lansweeper continuously discovers, classifies, and tracks shadow assets across IT, OT, IoT, and cloud, giving IT and security teams a complete view of what actually exists.
Lansweeper organizes your environment into named IP ranges and scores how completely each one is identified. Each segment shows the percentage of devices fully profiled (manufacturer, model, device type) versus those discovered but only partially recognized.
The coverage view also surfaces ranges where active scanning has never reached, giving you a clear, segment-by-segment answer to where you are still flying blind. Discovery effort can then focus where it actually closes gaps, instead of guessing.
Unmanaged assets expand the attack surface without appearing on any control inventory. They miss patching cycles, fall outside vulnerability scans, and create audit failures under frameworks like ISO 27001, NIS2, and CIS. They also slow incident response, since teams investigating an alert often discover the affected device wasn’t on any list. Continuous shadow asset discovery closes these gaps before they become incidents or findings.
