20 years ago when virtualization was starting and I was a pro-services road warrior (I even won a brass sole once!), I asked this simple question to which I always got a complex answer: How many servers have you got?
Fast-forward 20 years and it’s more complicated. Now I ask people “How many of these 8 asset classes do you have?” because IT is about much more than servers, of course!
And across those 8 asset classes, how are you doing with this 14 use cases?
How I whiteboard the scope of CAASM with 8 asset classes
When I’m not the one asking awkward questions, it’s someone else like the CxO that’s started a new job and the first thing they ask is:
“Steve, how do I find out what I have? The lay of the land?”
"It's not the stuff you know about that you need to worry about... it's the unknown unknowns that you need to worry about."
When a new CxO asks me this familiar, common question, I advise them to kick off a cybersecurity observability sprint and go through these 14 use cases.
These 14 things are what we at SJULTRA help our clients with via our CAASMCyber Asset Attack Surface Management (CAASM) focuses on man… services and with our partner Axonius.
1. Finding Devices with Missing Agents
Identify devices that should have security agents installed but don’t, addressing a critical blind spot in many security setups.
The age old CMDB problem. Are you maintaining an up-to-date Configuration Management Database (CMDB), especially crucial in dynamic cloud environments.
We find and fix IT/OT cybersecurity gaps at SJULTRA by using our Axonius tool with our skilled people and our standard procedures in 30 days to give you a “State of the Nation” report.