Why You Should Boost Your CMDB With Integrated Asset Intelligence
When the CMDB is not accurate, managers can’t lock down systems securely, make change management decisions, or see how service levels are really performing.
Security
New “Dirty Pipe” Linux Bug – Do You Know Your Entire Attack Surface?
To protect the entirety of your attack surface, the priority for security teams needs to be creating and maintaining a comprehensive inventory of every IT asset that touches the network.
What CISA Vulnerability Alerts Mean for Your Asset Inventory
Even the most comprehensive list of vulnerabilities can’t safeguard companies from exploits within the IT assets they’ve abandoned or forgotten about.
Video Series: Part 8 – How to Ensure a Successful IT Asset Initiative
With no overarching responsibility for IT asset management, it’s important to connect with the various owners of the tools that deliver inventory – because this is a team effort.
Video Series: Part 7 – The Impact of an Asset Inventory Initiative
We’ve discussed the challenges of getting to a comprehensive IT asset inventory. What we haven’t discussed is the impact this comprehensive asset inventory will have.
Video Series: Part 6 – Asset Telemetry
Today’s IT environments are extremely dynamic, so capturing the changes in overall inventory, as well as how specific attributes change within a specific asset, is important.
Video Series: Part 5 – Inventory Source Reconciliation
To reconcile inventory reports from many sources, we need to analyze and correlate detailed attributes in order to determine the true number of unique assets.
Video Series: Part 4 – Building Automated Asset Inventory Yourself
There is an extremely high cost to building maintaining a custom solution that comprehensively reconciles inventory data from multiple systems.
Video Series: Part 3 – A Manual Inventory of Assets
One approach we’ve seen teams take is to perform a manual reconciliation of inventory reports from the different IT systems to arrive at a comprehensive asset inventory.
Video Series: Part 2 – You Don’t Know What You Own
We have lots of tools that report inventory, but each of these tools provides a siloed view of the assets based on that specific tool’s purpose. None provide a comprehensive view.