Cybersecurity asset management (CSAM) is a process created to continuously discover, inventory, monitor, manage and track an organization’s assets to determine what those assets do and identify and automatically remediate any gaps in its cybersecurity protections. CSAM is a subset of IT asset management (ITAM) and is an important component of key security industry frameworks, such as NIST Cybersecurity Framework and Center for Internet Security Critical Security Controls. CSAM is necessary to provide real-time visibility to security operations teams and to better safeguard organizations and assets from security threats. Examples of assets that fall within the scope of CSAM include traditional endpoints, underlying network infrastructure, IoT sensors, virtual and hardware appliances, operating systems, and IP-connected OT. Challenges of managing assets in today’s enterprise environments include users in a variety of locations using a variety of devices and services, and fully virtualized assets residing in public clouds.
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