Cloud-based solutions. Virtual enterprise systems. Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) Assets. Nodes that connect, disconnect, and reconnect themselves over and over. All of those things are becoming increasingly common in a lot of companies across many industries, bringing new challenges to Asset Management. The median asset base is becoming more and more complex, making the job of monitoring all the IT items much more difficult.
With the increase in the number of devices connected to the main IT network, the need to account for all the points susceptible to cyberattacks is multiplied. Each and every one of these assets represents a potential vulnerability that might be exploited. That justifies the need to improve the visibility of all existing assets within a network, something that autodiscovery can handle extremely well.
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