Asset Visibility
Large enterprises struggle to maintain accurate IT asset inventories. This is because there are many potential sources for hardware and software purchases. If the IT organization does not know about a particular IT asset, it is likely not in the IT asset inventory. IT usually knows about an IT asset when configuration change management is needed or when a vulnerability assessment scan is performed.
In 2012, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) established a standard, called the Continuous Diagnostics Mitigation (CDM) standard, for continuous monitoring of IT assets. It starts with accurately defining an IT asset inventory of hardware and software assets. This standard defines an approach for continuously identifying ...
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