A modern approach to IT asset management needs to take full account of not just laptops and servers, but also new types of assets like containers, code snippets, virtual machines, users and vulnerabilities in the same way.
Despite being one of the oldest IT disciplines, effective IT asset management is still a critical requirement for multiple stakeholders in any organization.
The traditional way to run an IT asset management program comes from tagging computer hardware with unique identifiers, registering key details (such as Operating System (OS), licensed software, etc.).
Source: 2023 Security Hygiene and Posture Management (SHPM) report, Enterprise Strategy Group (ESG)
While most teams leverage a configuration management database (CMDB) to manage their IT assets, they require excessive maintenance and upkeep. A new way to improve the effectiveness of your CMDB is to integrate it closely with a CAASM platform. This is where Noetic can help. Noetic and your CMDB can prove to be highly complementary; as the CMDB is a dedicated dataset focused on the needs of the IT organization, where Noetic will act as a discoverer and aggregator of disparate datasets throughout your environment using API connections to other systems of record across Security and IT management tooling.
At a high level, the Noetic platform provides IT teams with critical insights necessary to enable the following use cases:
IT Teams play a critical role in patching and remediating vulnerabilities. With Noetic, the never-ending list of vulnerabilities can be prioritized to help teams focus on the most critical ones first.
IT Teams not only need access to all the assets in their environment, but they also need the relevant accompanying user data, associations and dependencies between them to help understand asset ownership.
By increasing trust in the CMDB, different stakeholders in IT asset management can concentrate on agreeing next steps around one trusted dataset rather than waste time arguing about the merits of their own dataset versus someone else’s.
With Noetic, you can track your IT Assets over time to see ensure that your progress towards maintaining an accurate asset inventory is always trending towards your goals
IT Teams play a critical role in patching and remediating vulnerabilities. With Noetic, the never-ending list of vulnerabilities can be prioritized to help teams focus on the most critical ones first.
IT Teams not only need access to all the assets in their environment, but they also need the relevant accompanying user data, associations and dependencies between them to help understand asset ownership.
By increasing trust in the CMDB, different stakeholders in IT asset management can concentrate on agreeing next steps around one trusted dataset rather than waste time arguing about the merits of their own dataset versus someone else’s.
With Noetic, you can track your IT Assets over time to see ensure that your progress towards maintaining an accurate asset inventory is always trending towards your goals
Several features set Noetic apart from other CAASM tools to help IT Asset Management:
Noetic offers the most comprehensive data model for not only aggregating information on machines, but also discovering coverage gaps on computers. It includes data, network topology, deployed software, business applications, physical location, threats and mitigations, and more.
Automated rules can be configured so that when Noetic discovers data about the environment that reaches a high enough threshold of reliability, it can be published back into the CMDB, continuously improving metadata hygiene.
Unlike solutions built on relational databases and constrained query interfaces, Noetic’s graph database enables users to explore multi-hop entity relationships which represent elevated risk. E.g. Business units which own applications which map to compute devices which have critical vulnerabilities.
Experience rapid time to value with pre-built connectors. Noetic customers have deployed the Noetic platform alongside market leading CMDB solutions including ServiceNow, Device 42 and more.
A recent report from IBM showed that the average organization has 30 percent more exposed assets than its asset management programs have identified. CISO and security leaders need to see everything in their environment to know what they need to protect.
Vulnerability teams need proper context to understand the true severity of a vulnerability. In providing continuous visibility into the security posture and relationships associated with each asset, Noetic enables threat and vulnerability teams to quickly decide which areas of risk require their immediate attention.
Noetic’s automated incident enrichment significantly reduces incident investigation time by up to 50%. Information on impacted assets and users at your fingertips when you need it.
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