What can you do with CAASM?
Fourteen things our team gets asked for most often, and what each one takes to answer.
They share a starting point: an asset inventory current enough to query. What follows is what that inventory pays for — the work it makes possible once every device, user and service in your estate is actually accounted for.
1. Find devices with missing agents
The challenge is knowing which devices should have the agent, but don’t. The agent tool doesn’t know what it doesn’t know.
2. Find devices with broken agents
Use CAASM to understand agent health to find devices that have the right agent installed but aren’t working as expected.
3. Find devices not being scanned.
The challenge is knowing which devices should be scanned but are not part of the VA Scan schedule.
4. Find cloud instances not being scanned
Cloud instances can be ephemeral and the environment “chaotic”, where old manual processes don’t work.
5. Find unmanaged devices
Unmanaged devices without an agent or configuration solution installed, not secured, and only found by network scanners.
6. Rogue devices on privileged networks
A device that is on a privileged network unexpectedly and has the potential for malicious intent.
7. Accelerate incident response
The rise of IoT and cloud devices makes this even more challenging- simply finding devices that may be associated with an incident can be a daunting task.
8. Find ephemeral devices
Ephemeral devices are often authorized and a normal part of operational processes, security, networking, and risk teams are often challenged to identify the presence of these devices in real-time.
9. Find unsanctioned software
Unsanctioned software often includes potentially unwanted software and applications that cause concern for IT, security, and risk teams.
10. Accurate user inventory
The sheer number of user accounts that exist across an enterprise result in challenges obtaining a single, consolidated inventory for user information.
11. Accurate server inventory
A credible and comprehensive inventory of all servers in your environment. Whether on-prem or in the cloud, Windows and Linux servers are used for critical business applications and often process sensitive data.
12. Find obsolete devices
Find legacy or sunsetted devices which have not been removed from the environment, or they may be outdated devices which cannot be upgraded or patched.
13. Prioritize vulnerabilities
Identify, investigate, and prioritize vulnerabilities, improving the accuracy and effectiveness of vulnerability management, more efficiently meeting compliance and policy requirements, and lessening the burden on IT managers
14. CMDB reconciliation
CMDBs rarely provide a complete picture of all assets at any given time – especially with the rise of virtual machines and cloud computing, where devices are created and deprecated in short time periods.
Run these use cases on your own estate, free for 30 days.
We deploy CAASM against your environment, run through the use cases that matter to you, and walk you through what came back.
How SJULTRA can help you with CAASM
Scope, manage, run CAASM
Build out use case models
Queries, enforcements, dashboard, reports
Troubleshooting
Install API client into tooling
Demonstrate quantifiable ROI and value
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