Smart ITAM Enables Better Compliance
Compliance processes in the enterprise have always been siloed. The compliance team or outside consultants running a compliance process normally have a 10,000 foot view. They can usually list the ...
The Ivanti deal and Integrated ITAM
As the Oomnitza sales engineering team speaks to more and more CIOs and Directors of IT, we hear the same thing repeatedly. They are tired of managing multiple tools. They ...
Are You Ready for Real-Time Compliance?
Many IT teams and CIOs view System and Organization Controls (SOC) 2 compliance as a painful annual exercise. This is understandable. SOC-2 is a rigorous reporting framework published by the ...
Managing technology sprawl remotely
With more employees working from home than ever before, technology has become far more critical as the glue that holds teams and businesses together. Even prior to COVID, working remotely ...
The Big Picture on IT Asset Management
There are multiple, pervasive trends driving how enterprises interact with their IT ecosystem. These trends affect everyone’s day to day workflow, as well as any experience of their customers. Understanding ...
Connecting the dots on IT Asset Management
Dot 1: IT Asset Management as a discipline has been around for quite a while. As an industry trend it is (surprisingly) receiving less attention than it used to – ...
Integrated ITAM vs. Cybersecurity Asset Management: What’s the Difference?
As the market for technology asset management has grown more complicated, we have seen an evolution of the products involved, and two paths emerge. Some of the newer entrants have ...
When MDM fails, an Integrated ITAM can make your day.
You are all in on cloud Mobile Device Management. You have put all your device information up into the cloud MDM service you selected. You are never going to have ...
With compliance growing more complicated, every company needs an accurate ITAM
The enforcement period for the new California Consumer Protection Act (CCPA) started only on July 1st of this year, and there are already a half-dozen class action lawsuits in motion ...
Rapid Digital Transformation Requires Upping Your ITAM Game
The COVID pandemic has forced a rapid acceleration of digital transformation efforts across all verticals. In his most recent earnings call, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadeal said “…we’ve seen something like ...
Ransomware On The Rise: Is Your IT Organization Ready?
One of the leading healthcare institutions fighting the COVID-19 scourge, the University of California at San Francisco, was shaken down by ransomware gangs in late June to the tune of ...
Verizon 2020 DBIR points to growing security risks from improper ITAM usage
Risks emanating from asset management are now among the fastest growing sources of security breaches. In particular, misconfiguration of hosts was identified by Verizon as the root cause of risk ...
Protecting your IT estate against executive compromise
Your company’s Chief Financial Officer is supposedly working from home in Florida. So why is his laptop showing up in New York City connected to an unknown WiFi access point ...
10 questions to ask about IT Assets and new hire onboarding
Your IT asset management process may be killing your employee retention and new hire productivity. Say what? Here’s the simple math. Onboarding is the first time a new hire is ...
The move to a zero touch IT: Management Reality?
Last week I wrote about how the environment created by the COVID-19 crisis was forcing CIOs and CISOs to embrace Zero Trust when the entire workforce is suddenly remote. The ...
Zero Trust is the New Imperative
In the span of a week, Zero Trust went from a buzzword to a must-have. The COVID-19 crisis overnight converted vast swaths of enterprise, education and government into 100% remote ...
The Sudden Rise of the New Normal
The requirements associated with on-boarding a new employee can be a very smooth experience, somewhat uneven, or a complete cluster. And this is under normal circumstances. At the moment, we ...
Best Practices for IT Asset Management and the Remote Workforce – Part 1
The speed and breadth of the Coronavirus pandemic have caught pretty much everyone off guard. The result across both the private and public sectors is that employees are being sent ...
Best Practices for IT Asset Management and the Remote Workforce – Part 2
In the last blog post, we talked about best practices for dealing with a shifting workforce as the entire economy starts to resynch to a remote (work from home) model. ...
The Critical Role of IT Asset Management in Adding Value to the Enterprise
Information Technology has always been the core enabler of modern business. Regardless of what that business actually delivers (energy, health care, financial services, entertainment, etc.) the path to business value ...
Workforce Productivity & Business Continuity in Uncertain Times
IT Asset Management (ITAM) has always been the cornerstone of a well structured IT ecosystem. In recent weeks, ITAM has become even more relevant with the changing dynamic and uncertainty ...
Announcing Some Big UI/UX Improvements for Oomnitza
As a technology company, we recognize that our technology only works well if people love using it. In that spirit, we strive to make Oomnitza as intuitive and user-friendly as ...
Zero Trust
Today, organizations are deviating from contained network systems and are storing data both on-premise and in the cloud. With employees and customers accessing this information from multiple devices and locations, ...
