Asset Inventory

Asset Inventory is the process of identifying, cataloging, and managing an organization's hardware, software, and network resources. It works to ensure visibility into IT assets, helping your organization track devices, detect unauthorized systems, and mitigate security risks by regularly reviewing assets for new, unmanaged, or hidden assets that may pose security threats as well as uncovering gaps that may be missed by automated tools.

Organizations that want to be secure will regularly update, maintain and monitor their asset inventories. By doing so, they can enhance IT asset management to allow monitoring and patching, have proactive security management to Identify unauthorized or unmanaged devices that could be exploited by attackers, optimize resource allocation to minimize duplication of capabilities and unnecessary expenditures and finally to maintain regulatory compliance whether that is ISO 27001, NIST, SOC 2, CMMC, PCI DSS or other frameworks.

What are some challenges organizations face in completing Asset Discovery and maintaining an accurate Asset Inventory?

Completing Asset Discovery and maintaining asset inventories provides some new challenges on your journey to cybersecurity. Most companies are faced with Resource Constraints. Specialized tools are required for scanning. You'll also need expertise, a tracking system, time (especially when manual efforts are required) and either continuous or regular monitoring. 

 

With rapidly changing infrastructure, complex IT environments, shadow IT, unmanaged devices, limited visibility, IoT devices, third-party integrations and legacy systems - asset inventory can be a real burden requiring a plan and continued effort. 

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