Laptop and device tracking
Track every laptop, control every incident.
Continuous location and history for every device, from a single admin console.
location and status
of laptops, tablets, mobiles
of device access and security
Why laptop tracking must scale with your fleet
When your organization has hundreds or thousands of devices deployed, loss isn't a rare event, it's an operational certainty. Laptops will be lost, stolen, or simply never returned.
At this scale, IT asset tracking can't be done manually; it has to be operationalized, and it has to be accurate.
Up to 150 laptops for a 1,000-device organization inside three years, each carrying credentials, VPN profiles, and local data.
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Terminations are a regular event. Device return or deauthorization should be one too.
Every device you own, and what it's doing right now.
Position, specs, login and encryption state for the whole fleet in one view. Updates in real time, so information and controls are ready whenever you need them — during an audit, an offboarding, or an evolving incident.
The whole fleet on one screen
Filter to the devices that matter — dark too long, outside their region, assigned to someone who's left — and take action without leaving the view.
Location that holds up in the field.
Location you can count on: multi-sensor fixes that resolve indoors and off-network. A light footprint: event-driven reporting instead of constant polling. And a reporting path that won't be disrupted by the person holding the device.
Continuous location
Position updates stream in real time, and every fix is retained as a timestamped record — current location and full movement history from the same feed.
Multiple sensors
Wi-Fi triangulation, GPS, cellular, and IP geolocation resolve to a single fix, with the most accurate available source taking precedence — coverage holds indoors and on hardware without a GPS radio.
Resource-efficient
Reporting is event-driven rather than interval-based: the agent transmits on detected movement, consuming negligible CPU, battery, and bandwidth while a device is stationary.
Silent and tamper-resistant
The agent runs with no user-facing presence and resists uninstallation without administrative credentials.
Context behind every pin
Tether gives you more than the data to investigate and document an incident. It gives you the context around it: the device's history, its route, where it stopped, who was signed in, and when.
Location history in the Tether console. Step back through a device's records to see where it was, how long it stayed, and the exact server and agent timestamps for each report.
Wired into critical security controls
Location is context for your analysts, a signal for your policies, and a trigger for automated response.
Device Containment
When the trail says a device is gone, contain it without destroying data — and keep tracking it the whole time.
Geofences & Curfews
Turn location into policy: restricted zones, assigned facilities, and offline curfews that enforce themselves.
Confirms the location you're being shown is the real one — VPN, proxy, and GPS manipulation surfaced rather than trusted.
A dwell address from the location trail — not a last-known pin — is what made recovery possible.
A clinician's laptop holding exported patient records went missing between two facilities. It reported once, then went dark overnight.
The location trail showed the device leaving the campus route and dwelling overnight at a single residential address. Security contained it on the spot and handed the timeline to local police.
The laptop was recovered within 48 hours. Because access was contained and the data sealed, the incident closed without a reportable breach.
Search for the laptop in the Tether admin console, by username, serial number, or computer name. You will see the laptop's current (or last known) location, history trail, and dwell time (how long the laptop was at a location).
Consumer tools are built for one person and one device: a last-known pin, tied to a signed-in account the holder can sign out of. Tether tracks the fleet as an administered asset — history retained, coverage across Windows, macOS, and mobile, reporting that isn't contingent on the user cooperating, and a record you can export for audit or law enforcement.
Tether will continue protecting the device with Offline Curfew, which keeps its own clock and enforces your containment policies with no connectivity required. The admin console shows exactly when reporting stopped.
No, tracking software uses the wifi and GPS on the device which needs to be powered on. When a laptop is offline, Tether will show the last known location and location history.
Tether tracks company-owned assets, not people. Reporting intervals, retention windows, and who can view location history are all configurable, so you can match the policy your legal team and works councils have agreed to — and show an audit trail of who looked at what.
MDM reports a last-known location when a device checks in. That's an inventory feature, not an incident capability — no trail, no dwell analysis, no anomaly detection, and no way to contain a device. Tether can run alongside your MDM and add the layer it doesn't cover.
Act from the same view. Contain the device to make it unusable while keeping it visible, seal the data with out-of-band encryption, or hold and watch while the trail develops. Nothing you do is destructive, and nothing you do ends the investigation.
You can't secure what you can't see.
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