Attackers Don’t Like You Having Visibility Into Your End-Of-Life Assets
Some of the most significant risks aren’t zero-day attacks or sophisticated new supply-chain worms. They are trusted systems that have been in use for years.
Security
Proactively Supporting Our Customers with the Cisco IOS XE Vulnerability
When we learned about the Cisco IOS XE vulnerability, we immediately created queries to help customers proactively search for vulnerable devices running the OS in their environments.
Vulnerability Hunting: Threat Hunting’s Cybersecurity Cousin
Definitions of threat hunting all center on one extremely mistaken idea—it is a form of proactive cyber defense. That can’t be further from the truth.
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.
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.