The corporate network can be a busy place with devices connecting, reconnecting and disconnecting every day. With the ever-growing landscape of today’s corporate networks, the difficulty of knowing and understanding what is on an enterprise network has highlighted the importance of effective asset discovery. So what does asset discovery involve? Asset discovery involves keeping a check on the active and inactive assets on a network. For many modern corporations, this will now include cloud, virtual, and mobile devices in addition to the traditional on-premise workstations and servers. This can start to make gathering insight into devices more difficult.

Trust the Process

2020 brought about a paradigm shift in how business conduct day to day operations. Dispersed corporate networks which extend onto the cloud and into employee homes can inevitably lead to blind spots, which may allow attackers to exploit weak points in a network. IT personnel can get visibility into these blind spots by leveraging a high-quality asset discovery tool.

Strong foundational IT security is crucial, the Center of Internet Security (CIS) believes so as well by encompassing the first two Critical Security Controls (CSC) for asset management.  

  • CIS CSC 1: Actively manage (inventory, track, and correct) all hardware devices on the network so that only authorized devices are given access, and unauthorized and unmanaged devices are found and prevented from gaining access.
  • CIS CSC 2: Actively manage (inventory, track, and correct) all software on the network so that only authorized software is installed and can execute, and that unauthorized and unmanaged software is found and prevented from installation or execution.

Improved Network Visibility

Achieving 100% network visibility can be an overwhelming task, but it’s not impossible and the best run corporate networks strive to achieve or maintain this noble goal. To shed light throughout every (Read more...)