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It’s Tax Time – Do You Know Where Your Assets Are Located?
The first half of the calendar year is when property tax returns are due in most jurisdictions and your company’s finance team is likely to ask your IT staff for an accounting of the company’s technical assets and where they are located. This information is important,...
Better Quality Data Leads to a More Confident Threat Response
On April 16, 2018, the US and UK governments issued a warning about foreign governments sponsoring hackers who target the networks of companies and government organizations by exploiting network devices with default administrative credentials. While it was interesting...
IT Asset Management – Addressing Clutter in Your IT Environment
Does your IT environment look like a thoughtfully organized warehouse (with a place for everything and everything in its place) or from an episode of the TV program, “Hoarders”? Every component, asset, etc. you add to your environment has a useful life and keeping...
Better Data Quality Means Better Decisions
Analysts, operations staff, managers and IT leaders spend a tremendous amount of time looking at data about their IT operations. “What do we have?” “For what is it used?” “How accurate is it?” “Why don’t the numbers add correctly?” “What happens if we miss something?”...
Security Risk – If You Don’t Know the Components in Your IT Environment, Then How Can You Protect Yourself?
Malicious attacks on company’s IT systems are increasing. If you don’t believe it, then just read the news. Each week, more companies and government organizations appear in headlines with data breaches, ransomware attacks and malware disrupting operations. Customers...
IT Health Check – A Small Bet with a Big Return
Malware, data breaches, software compatibility issues and rising IT costs – if you want to control them, then you must understand what components reside in your IT environment. Just one malicious attack, major incident or loss of company data can bring your business...
“I Didn’t Think It Could Happen to Us”
What is the most common response from executives when a company experiences a security breach, major outage or disaster situation? “I didn’t think it could happen to us!” When did an executive last make such a statement publicly? You would be hard pressed to find...
You Know You Have a Problem, But You Don’t Know How to Solve It
Do you sometimes experience that anxious, unsettled feeling when you think about your IT asset and configuration data? You have invested much time and money implementing discovery tools and populating your Configuration Management Database (CMDB) with huge amounts of...
Configuration data and cloud services: putting the big picture together
Cloud services, whether they be infrastructure or software offerings, have become a common part of most company’s IT landscape. There is no question that cloud services enable users to access powerful functionality without the up-front costs of developing them...
Just Because You Discovered It, Doesn’t Mean You Should Add It to Your CMDB
Everyone loves the thrill of discovery – finding something new buried in the forest of IT infrastructure, user devices and services. Seasoned service management experts will tell you that the data you discover can be a valuable resource to help your company address...
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