What asset management (ITAM) looks like outside cybersecurity – Jeremy Boerger – ESW #374
The top priority on the CIS Critical Security Controls list has never changed: inventory and control of enterprise assets. Yet it remains one of the most challenging controls to implement, much less master. The refrain, "you can't secure what you don't know about" is as old as information security itself.
Complicating this task is the fact that improving asset management isn't an aspiration unique to the security team. IT, finance, facilities, and other groups within large enterprises are concerned with this as well. This often leads to challenges: should all these groups attempt to standardize on one common asset database or CMDB? Or should security go their own way, and purchase their own asset management tool?
Answering these questions would be a lot easier if we had someone with an IT asset management (ITAM) perspective, and fortunately, we do! Jeremy Boerger of Boerger Consulting joins us to help us understand the IT perspective, so we can understand if there are opportunities for security and IT to help each other out, or at least find some common ground!
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Jeremy Boerger has been leading and managing information technology asset management (ITAM) teams for over twenty years in sectors as varied as healthcare, manufacturing, and finance. In 2017, he founded Boerger Consulting, LLC to reach more medium and large organizations to maximize their IT total cost optimization (TCO) efforts across their hardware and software expenditures. In 2021, he published Rethinking Information Technology Asset Management (Business Expert Press) to guide and coach more individuals on the finer points of hardware and software asset management (SAM). He currently tours the North America, speaking to like-minded IT Directors, CIOs, CFOs, and CEOs to encourage faster adoption of “the best of the best” practices in the industry: the Pragmatic ITAM Method.
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