Asset Management – Arabic System House

Actively manage (inventory, track, and correct) all enterprise assets (end-user devices, including portable and mobile; network devices; non-computing/Internet of Things (IoT) devices; and servers) connected to the infrastructure physically, virtually, remotely, and those within cloud environments, to accurately know the totality of assets that need to be monitored and protected within the enterprise. This will also support identifying unauthorized and unmanaged assets to remove or remediate.

Also software (operating systems and applications) 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.

Why Asset Management is Critical?

Enterprises cannot defend what they do not know they have. Managed control of all enterprise assets also plays a critical role in security monitoring, incident response, system backup, and recovery. Enterprises should know what data is critical to them, and proper asset management will help identify those enterprise assets that hold or manage this critical data, so appropriate security controls can be applied.

External attackers are continuously scanning the internet address space of target enterprises, premise-based or in the cloud, identifying possibly unprotected assets attached to enterprises’ networks. Attackers can take advantage of new assets that are installed, yet not securely configured and patched. Internally, unidentified assets can also have weak security configurations that can make them vulnerable to web or email-based malware; and adversaries can leverage weak security configurations for traversing the network, once they are inside.

Additional assets that connect to the enterprise’s network (e.g., demonstration systems, temporary test systems, guest networks, etc.) should be identified and/or isolated, in order to prevent adversarial access from affecting the security of enterprise operations.

Large, complex, dynamic enterprises understandably struggle with the challenge of managing intricate, fast-changing environments. However, attackers have shown the ability, patience, and willingness to “inventory and control” our enterprise assets at very large scale in order to support their opportunities.

Another challenge is that portable end-user devices will periodically join a network and then disappear, making the inventory of currently available assets very dynamic. Likewise, cloud environments and virtual machines can be difficult to track in asset inventories when they are shut down or paused. Another benefit of complete enterprise asset management is supporting incident response. Both when investigating the origination of network traffic from an asset on the network, and to be able to identify all potentially vulnerable, or impacted, assets of similar type or location during an incident.

A complete software inventory is a critical foundation for preventing attacks. Attackers continuously scan target enterprises looking for vulnerable versions of software that can be remotely exploited. For example, if a user opens a malicious website or attachment with a vulnerable browser, an attacker can often install backdoor programs and bots that give the attacker long-term control of the system. Attackers can also use this access to move laterally through the network. One of the key defenses against these attacks is updating and patching software. However, without a complete inventory of software assets, an enterprise cannot determine if they have vulnerable software, or if there are potential licensing violations.

Even if a patch is not yet available, a complete software inventory list allows an enterprise to guard against known attacks until the patch is released. Some sophisticated attackers use “zero-day exploits”, which take advantage of previously unknown vulnerabilities that have yet to have a patch released by the software vendor. Depending on the severity of the exploit, an enterprise can implement temporary mitigation measures to guard against attacks until the patch is released.

Management of software assets is also important to identify unnecessary security risks. An enterprise should review their software inventory to identify any enterprise assets running software that is not needed for business purposes. For example, an enterprise asset may come installed with default software that creates a potential security risk and provides no benefit to the enterprise. It is critical to inventory, understand, assess, and manage all software connected to an enterprise’s infrastructure.

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