LiongardIQ
LiongardIQ uses these to automatically connect to systems and continuously collect data across environments.
What are Inspectors?
Visual Insights allows users to turn LiongardIQ data into these visual formats for easier understanding and sharing.
What are dashboards?
What does MCP stand for?
What is Model Context Protocol
This widely used framework is known for its prioritized set of 18 controls to improve cybersecurity posture.
What is CIS (Critical Security Controls)?
This acronym refers to a company that remotely manages IT systems and services for clients.
What is an MSP (Managed Service Provider)?
This is the centralized place in LiongardIQ where collected data from assets is organized and viewed.
What is the asset inventory?
These are ready-made dashboards in Visual Insights that users can start with instead of building from scratch.
What are prebuilt dashboards?
Without MCP, getting Liongard data into ChatGPT might involve this very manual keyboard shortcut duo.
What is copy and paste?
This U.S. framework provides guidelines and best practices for managing cybersecurity risk across organizations.
What is the NIST Cybersecurity Framework?
This type of agreement defines the services an MSP provides and the expected level of performance.
What is an SLA (Service Level Agreement)?
This built-in capability in LiongardIQ allows users to ask questions and receive enriched insights from their environment’s data.
What is Roar Assistant?
This Visual Insights capability allows users to organize dashboards by customer or environment.
What is environment-based dashboards?
(or: What is filtering by environment?)
With Liongard MCP connected, an MSP can ask an AI assistant a question about a client environment without manually checking these first.
What are multiple tools or systems?
These are the five core functions of the NIST Cybersecurity Framework that guide how organizations manage risk.
What are Identify, Protect, Detect, Respond, and Recover?
This system is commonly used by MSPs to manage tickets, clients, billing, and service delivery.
What is a PSA (Professional Services Automation tool)?
(accept: Autotask, HaloPSA, ConnectWise Manage)
This LiongardIQ feature shows a timeline of changes, helping users quickly see what was added, removed, or modified in an environment.
What is change detection?
This Visual Insights capability allows users to modify charts, metrics, and layout to fit their specific reporting needs.
What is customizing widgets?
“Which users have Microsoft 365 licenses assigned but aren’t being billed?” is an example of this: something Liongard MCP can help AI investigate using environment data.
What is a natural-language query / client environment question?
CIS Controls are designed to be this—meaning organizations can implement them step-by-step based on their maturity.
What is prioritized?
(accept: What is progressive or tiered?)
This is what MSPs aim to reduce by proactively monitoring systems and resolving issues before users notice.
What is downtime?
Visual Insights Pro enables users to add logos, colors, and styling to dashboards for this purpose.
What is client-facing branding?
(or: What is branding customization?)
Instead of logging into several tools and hunting for an answer yourself, MCP lets you do this in plain English.
What is ask AI/Liongard a question?
This concept refers to aligning security controls to meet the requirements of frameworks like CIS or NIST.
What is compliance mapping?
(accept: What is control mapping?)
This security approach assumes no user or device should be trusted by default, even inside the network.
What is Zero Trust?
This pre-built ConnectWise dashboard is commonly used to present high-level business and security insights to leadership or clients during reviews.
What is Executive Review?
A critical vulnerability is announced for a specific firewall model. Rather than checking customers one at a time, an MSP could use Liongard MCP to identify this group.
What are clients with affected devices?
This is the key difference between CIS and NIST: CIS tells you what to do, while NIST focuses more on this.
What is a risk-based framework / how to manage risk?
This role is responsible for aligning IT strategy with business goals and often leads QBRs with clients.
What is a vCIO (Virtual Chief Information Officer)?
(accept: vCISO depending on framing)