How it works
From scattered signals to one trusted inventory.
Lumen Edge collects from your network and the tools you already own, reconciles every record through a five-stage pipeline, and keeps you in control of what enters the inventory.
Four steps
Up and running in an afternoon.
Deploy a lightweight sensor where your networks are, connect the tools you already own, and let the pipeline do the reconciliation.

EDR & XDR
Identity & directory
Cloud & MDM
SIEM, NDR & scanners- 1
Deploy a sensor
One per site or segment, on Windows, Linux, macOS or as a container. It connects out; nothing connects in.
- 2
Connect your tools
Pick integrations from the catalog and add read-only credentials in the console.
- 3
Scan & correlate
Scheduled scans feed a five-stage pipeline that verifies, cleans, identifies, validates and syncs.
- 4
Act on it
Dashboards, coverage gaps, approvals, reports and API: the inventory works for every team.
The pipeline
Five stages between a raw record and your inventory.
Every scan and every integration goes through the same path. Nothing reaches the inventory without being checked, matched and explained.
- 01
Verify
Every scan result is checked before it is trusted: where it came from, which task produced it and whether it is complete.
Partial or malformed uploads stop here.
- 02
Clean
Hostnames, domains, MAC addresses, operating systems and versions are normalized, so every tool speaks the same language.
“ADC01”, “adc01.corp.local” and “ADC01$” become one name.
- 03
Identify
Ordered, explainable rules (agent ID, hostname and IP, FQDN, directory name) match each record to an existing asset or create a new one.
Conflicting signals are held back, never guessed.
- 04
Validate
Proposed changes are checked against your policies. Anything sensitive (a new device, a merge, a removal) can wait for approval.
You decide what enters the inventory.
- 05
Sync
Approved changes land in the inventory with full history, and every dashboard, module, report and API consumer sees them at once.
Each field remembers which source set it, and when.
Your first week
From kick-off to a tuned inventory.
- Day 1 · morning
Kick-off
We scope sites, sources and success criteria with your team in a 60-minute session.
- Day 1 · afternoon
First sensor, first tools
Install a sensor, connect two or three integrations and run the first scans.
- Day 2–3
A correlated inventory
Records from every source are reconciled. Coverage gaps and unknown devices are already visible.
- Week 1
Tuned for your teams
Approval policies, custom fields, dashboards and reports, set up together with our engineers.
Built for security teams
Safe to connect, from the first scan.
Lumen Edge is designed to be deployed by people who are careful about what they let into their network. Read about security & trust.
- Sensors connect outbound over HTTPS, with no inbound ports, no VPN
- Integrations use read-only credentials you create and can revoke
- No endpoint agents to roll out, patch or troubleshoot
- Data isolated per tenant, and all traffic encrypted with TLS
- Approval queues for anything that changes the inventory
- Every change is logged with who, what, when and the rule behind it
FAQ
Questions about getting started
How long until we see results?
Do we need to install agents on endpoints?
What does the sensor need?
What happens when two sources disagree?
Can we run it fully on-prem or air-gapped?
See it on your own data.
In a 30-minute walkthrough we connect to a sample of your environment and show you the inventory it produces.
SaaS or on-prem · no endpoint agents · every module included