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The State of Utah Department of Technology Services (DTS) learned the hard way about the importance of accurate, real-time asset management. In 2012, a Medicaid database server was placed online without changing the server’s factory-default password. The resulting data breach exposed the personal information of 780,000 of Utah’s 3.1 million residents.1 The cyberattack itself was […]

How to proactively identify ICS cyberthreats before they impact your bottom line Threat hunting is the practice of proactively searching through networks for indicators of abnormal behavior caused by potential cyber threats, as opposed to simply relying on detection tools to flag those threats. This discipline has quickly gained traction in the IT security domain […]

There were more than four hours of debate, 20 top candidates, and dozens of tough questions on immigration, healthcare, and foreign policy in the first official debate for the 2020 elections just a few weeks ago. But there was at least one major omission: cybersecurity. It was a glaring gap that was not mentioned by […]

The SANS 2019 State of OT/ICS Cybersecurity Survey explores the challenges involved with designing, operating, and managing risk to industrial control systems and their assets. Security professionals from all around the world, responsible for both Enterprise IT and Operational Control networks, took part in the survey to answer an underlying question – how can we […]

From the time of a medical accident, your personal health records are shared across dozens of devices and medical networks before multiplying across provider EHR systems. The volume of hospital admissions has varied over the years in the U.S., spiking in the early 80s at around 39 million and settling to roughly 37.5 million in […]

In our previous blog post, we recapped the highlights from a recent Gartner report, Reducing Audit Costs and Risks with a Comprehensive IT Asset Management Strategy. In this blog post we’re exploring the role real-time asset management plays in driving service and cybersecurity innovation and business value. It seems like only yesterday when real-time IT […]

Network outages happen. We’ve all been there — we’re sitting at home, watching our favorite TV show on a streaming service, when suddenly the dreaded spinning circle indicates we’re cut off from the outside world. It’s annoying, but a sudden lack of connectivity can also have a catastrophic impact. Stores, buildings, traffic lights, factories, emergency […]

Twitter: @MeetCyberBob Do you let your internal customers view your IT asset management system? This might not be a popular view of IT asset management, but I think it makes our internal customers more accountable. Let your customers view a real-time inventory of their equipment. Even better, let them see how their employees are doing […]

Gartner offers recommendations for reducing audit costs and risk. Welcome to our three-part blog post series on achieving real-time asset management. Here, in part one of this series, you’ll learn how to build a comprehensive asset management strategy. Next, we’ll explore the role real-time IT asset management plays in driving service innovation and business value. […]