Most legacy asset tracking tools are made for on-premise environments. Incremental migrations are risky in their temporary exposures. The Hybrid model perpetuates this condition, severing existing integrations between inventory systems, upon which most monitoring and thus reporting tools are based. Previous investments in integration and management of the firm's complex business processes are compromised.
Outward signs of administrative disruption include
- Reporting inaccuracies in core processes.
- Deadline and domain disputes.
- Missed internal deadlines.
Outward signs as a range of systemic issues include
- billing anomalies
- wide-spread service disruptions
- ransomware attacks.
Overall, reconciliation control between what is and what should be across cloud and premise assets is lacking. Across whole estate includes on-premise, cloud and hybrid environments. All of the underlying HW/SW/DATA infrastructure are in scope.
Meanwhile, answering the questions for hybrid and cloud environments
- Which assets are here and not supposed to be so?
- Which assets are expected to be here and not here?
does not seem possible with measurable confidence.
Risk Managers are doing their best to achieve better than the 'least worst' as an industry standard. These are often unsolvable challenges with the limited resources and time-frames constraining their focus to what is solvable.
This is where we can help.
