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Physical asset management

Physical asset management

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Physical asset management

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- [Narrator] Cybersecurity teams, often find themselves responsible for the physical security of technology resources. The loss and theft of these resources exposes organizations to millions of dollars of losses each year, and when those devices are lost or stolen, it's critical to understand what was on them to perform a security impact analysis. Any good physical security program, must begin with an inventory process. Quite simply, you can't keep track of your hardware if you don't know what hardware you own. The hardware inventory process should be integrated with the provisioning and decommissioning processes that occur throughout the lifecycle of a piece of hardware. Most organizations accomplish this, through the use of an asset management system that either stands on its own or is part of a larger IT service management platform. Let's walk through the lifecycle of a typical piece of hardware and how the inventory might change. First, a user states a need for a new piece of…

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