From the course: Building and Auditing a Cybersecurity Program
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Infrastructure asset management for cybersecurity
From the course: Building and Auditing a Cybersecurity Program
Infrastructure asset management for cybersecurity
- [Instructor] How can we secure an infrastructure asset if we do not know that it exists? The old adage goes, you cannot protect what you do not know. How can I defend my organization from attackers when I do not know what my cyber estate looks like. The traditional cyber perimeter is evolving so fast that most organizations struggle to determine where exactly the assets reside. That alone put in place effective controls to ensure that critical data and systems are secure. If your asset inventory is not managed, you run the risk of not knowing what's connected to your network. Asset management plays such a foundational role in cybersecurity program that CIS critical controls and the NIST cybersecurity framework list the need to inventory and control infrastructure assets as its first security control. Poor asset management practices has dramatically increased the chances that hackers will be able to compromise your…
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