Chapter 7

Asset Management

Asset Management covers the need to know what systems are connected to your internal network.

Keywords

Mobile device management; MDM; enterprise mobility management; EMM

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In the asset management category, the key question we ask here is as follows:

What information assets do we have?

Put another way, do you know what systems are connected to your internal network? Because if you don’t, it may not be prudent to consider it your network. Someone may have added a wireless access point or a rogue system that they are using to monitor employee activity, to access trade secrets, or to serve up malware to unsuspecting visitors ...

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