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Credit to Author: Elizabeth Wolk| Date: Tue, 13 Aug 2019 16:00:38 +0000<\/strong><\/p>\n

Despite the amazing and futuristic progression of technologies in cybersecurity, it’s still incredibly hard to answer the most basic of questions like: how many assets do I have, and do they adhere to my security policy?\u00a0Somewhere along the line, asset management became very mundane compared to the other initiatives we\u2019re responsible for in cybersecurity. Yet everything in cybersecurity lies on a foundation of understanding our devices, cloud instances, users, and the solutions that cover them.<\/p>\n

So why is asset management\u2014a problem that has persisted for decades\u2014still an issue in 2019? Today, we look at why asset management remains a challenge, the Axonius approach to cybersecurity asset management, and how integrations with several Microsoft technologies are key to solving the problem and delivering value to organizations around the world.<\/p>\n

The cybersecurity solution paradox<\/h3>\n

The more devices you have, the more solutions you implement to manage and secure them. Although one might think that the more security and management solutions at an organization the better, that\u2019s not always the case. We call this the cybersecurity solution paradox: the idea that the more solutions you have, the harder it actually becomes to get answers to very basic questions. All of the information exists in separate silos, making it more difficult to aggregate the data, correlate it, and derive context and meaning.<\/p>\n

Watch this short video<\/a> outlining today\u2019s asset management challenge.<\/p>\n

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The Axonius approach<\/h3>\n

If we were to outline an approach to asset management, we\u2019d want a product to:<\/p>\n

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  1. Understand which assets are unmanaged<\/strong>\u2014Those devices and cloud instances not being managed or secured by the tools outlined in our security policies.<\/li>\n
  2. Understand which managed assets are missing agents<\/strong>\u2014For example, which Windows 10 devices are missing an endpoint agent?<\/li>\n
  3. Discover new devices<\/strong>\u2014Any time a new device hits the network, we\u2019d want to know whether it adheres to our security policies.<\/li>\n
  4. Give context<\/strong>\u2014If our security operations team gets an alert about a device, we would want to understand what the device is, what\u2019s installed, its patch level, known vulnerabilities, which users have signed in, etc.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    To get this information, a product would need to be very simple, agentless, and it would:<\/p>\n

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    1. Connect to every security and management solution that knows about assets.<\/li>\n
    2. Collect and normalize all relevant asset and user information.<\/li>\n
    3. Correlate the information to know that every asset is unique.<\/li>\n
    4. Understand the relationship between users, devices, cloud instances, and the solutions that manage and secure them.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

      This is exactly the approach we took in building the Axonius cybersecurity asset management platform<\/a>. By connecting to over 130 management and security solutions<\/a>, Axonius is able to:<\/p>\n