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This is the critical point of convergence between the <\/span>IT Asset Management (ITAM)<\/b><\/a> and <\/span>Cybersecurity<\/b>. This union gives rise to the concept of <\/span>CyberITAM<\/b><\/a>The \"Asset Management,\" a discipline that recognizes that effective security begins with an accurate, complete, and contextualized asset inventory. Simply put, <\/span>you cannot protect what you do not know and do not control<\/b>. An unknown asset is, by definition, an unattended vulnerability.<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Traditionally, ITAM has focused on financial and contractual control: How many licenses do we have? When does the license expire? <\/span>hardware<\/span><\/i>? While this is crucial, the modern cybersecurity perspective demands that the asset inventory be a real-time risk intelligence tool. <\/span><\/p>\n Incomplete inventory generates three major attack vectors that CyberITAM seeks to eliminate:<\/span><\/p>\n Every application installed on a corporate device, whether it is an operating system, middleware, a <\/span>middleware<\/span><\/i> or a productivity application, represents a potential entry point.<\/span><\/p>\n The <\/span>Shadow IT<\/span><\/i> (Shadow IT) are all those devices, applications and cloud services that employees use without the approval or knowledge of the IT department. From an instant messaging application to a personal server connected to the network, the <\/span>Shadow IT<\/span><\/i> introduces assets that are completely invisible to conventional security tools.<\/span><\/p>\n A solution <\/span>CyberITAM<\/b> robust solution employs advanced discovery techniques (continuous network scanning, endpoint agents, and <\/span>endpoint agents<\/span><\/i> agents and traffic analysis) to detect these hidden assets, providing the security team with total visibility into <\/span>full visibility<\/b> to bring them under control or eliminate them if they are too risky.<\/span><\/p>\n Devices that have reached the end of their useful life (<\/span>End-of-Life<\/span><\/i> or EOL) are no longer supported and, more importantly, no longer receive security patches, <\/span>no longer receive security patches<\/b> of the manufacturer. A traditional ITAM inventory might simply consider them depreciated assets; a traditional <\/span>CyberITAM<\/b> immediately marks them as critical risk assets <\/span>critical risk<\/b>. Identifying and removing (or isolating) these EOL devices is a critical preventive step.<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n CyberITAM's primary function is to transform raw asset data into actionable security intelligence. This is achieved by correlating inventory data with vulnerability databases and compliance frameworks. <\/span><\/p>\n The CyberITAM system goes beyond a simple inventory. It maps every asset (hardware and software) on the network with public databases of vulnerabilities (such as NVD or CVE). If a computer on the network runs version 7.0 of a browser and this version has 10 known vulnerabilities, the system: <\/span><\/p>\n This risk-based prioritization is the key to security efficiency, allowing IT teams to focus on the most likely points of failure.<\/span><\/p>\n Patch management is one of the most critical, but also one of the most daunting, tasks in IT. By integrating ITAM and cybersecurity, the process becomes strategic. Instead of patching everything at once (which is unfeasible), CyberITAM allows: <\/span><\/p>\nIncomplete inventory: The biggest attack vector<\/b><\/h3>\n
1. The risk of unknown and unauthorized software<\/b><\/h4>\n
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2. The threat of s<\/b>hadow IT<\/i><\/b><\/h4>\n
3. The h<\/b>ardware<\/i><\/b> obsolete and end of life (EOL)<\/b><\/h4>\n
CyberITAM in action: From visibility to risk prioritization<\/b><\/h3>\n
Continuous vulnerability mapping<\/b><\/h4>\n
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2. Risk-based patch management<\/b><\/h4>\n