Three questions to answer before you renew your MDM

Renewal periods are presented as an opportunity for organizations to reassess device-management contracts rather than automatically accept higher prices and continued vendor lock-in. The text argues that effective endpoint management should provide deep, live inventory across macOS, Windows, Linux, and mobile platforms, including browser and IDE extensions, developer packages, certificates, encryption status, and emerging AI tools such as MCP server configurations, in order to identify shadow AI and real attack surfaces. It promotes vulnerability prioritization based on NVD, CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities, and EPSS data instead of CVSS severity alone, while criticizing fragmented tool stacks that require separate MDM, vulnerability, compliance, and operating-system-specific products. Fleet is positioned as a unified, open-source alternative that supports Git-based configuration management, reviewable and reversible policy changes, public issue tracking and roadmaps, detailed rollout diagnostics, and portable YAML configurations. The text also contends that migration can begin gradually by deploying Fleet’s agent alongside existing MDM tools for visibility before shifting management functions, and recommends asking vendors about AI-tool visibility, vulnerability prioritization, Linux support, and feature-request transparency before renewing.

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