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?
HunterX is designed to analyze this part of a company’s environment: what can be seen without accessing internal systems.
What is the external attack surface?
ThreatImpactIQ helps teams prioritize vulnerabilities based on this: how they could affect the business, not just technical severity.
What is business impact?
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?
This primary HunterX report presents risk in a way that’s easy for executives to understand, including probability and impact.
What is the Risk Report?
ThreatImpactIQ uses real-world threat intelligence like this list of actively exploited vulnerabilities to prioritize risk.
What is the KEV (Known Exploited Vulnerabilities) list?
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?)
HunterX allows teams to track when a prospect engages with shared reports, helping prioritize follow-up based on buying signals throughout this process.
What is the sales lifecycle?
(accept: What is the deal lifecycle?)
This is what ThreatImpactIQ provides when it links vulnerabilities, exploit likelihood, and business impact together.
What is a Risk Score?
(accept: What is risk-based prioritization?)
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?
HunterX uses this type of data to compare a company’s risk posture against others in their industry.
What is benchmarking data?
(accept: What is SignetRisk data?)
ThreatImpactIQ becomes even more powerful when paired with these tools that provide detailed vulnerability scan data.
What are vulnerability scanners?
(accept: What is Tenable, Nessus, or Rapid7?)
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?
This feature enhancement helps teams understand the current state of devices with labels like active, unresponsive, or issue detected.
What is Device Status Monitoring?
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?)
A HunterX Risk Report is most effective in this moment: when a prospect understands their exposure and is deciding whether to move forward.
What is the decision stage?
(accept: What is the closing stage?)
Unlike traditional tools that rely only on scan results, ThreatImpactIQ also uses this type of continuously collected data to improve prioritization.
What is asset intelligence?
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?
When LiongardIQ finds an identity or device but it has not yet been fully brought under management, it appears in this part of the platform.
What is Asset Inventory - Discovery tab?
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?
HunterX is especially valuable for this role, helping them drive security conversations and uncover new opportunities with existing clients.
What is an Account Manager (or vCIO/vCISO)?
ThreatImpactIQ helps teams move beyond long lists of vulnerabilities by focusing on this: what actually matters to address first.
What is risk prioritization?
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)