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Software Asset Management & Security | Deloitte US | Finance & Operations Risk Transformation

Software Asset Management can strengthen security tools and processes, significantly improving a company’s ability to protect data and drive performance.

Source: www2.deloitte.com

Where are the decisions made?

The provision of software to employees is a business decision.  A user-facing software app store - essentially a software catalog - ensures that requests for software have a defined workflow behind them, so any software request can’t escape from a business line manager approval.

 

Workflow processes ensure compliance and consistence, crucial for the organization’s drive for authorized software deployment. Here’s the link between SAM and information security, as described in the well written  Deloitte article  - minimizing the threat landscape -.

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Automate Software Asset Management for effective SAM

Automate SAM using License Management as a Service (LMaaS) for effective software asset management

Source: www.licensedashboard.com

Software license management goes beyond compliance and builds on your internal governance processes. Step away from transactional licensing tasks and take your license management decisions based on 24x7 available web-enabled  dashboards and reports.

Why choose a Service? – License Management as a Service | License Dashboard

Some of the benefits… Save time and money Fast implementation means no disruption to normal business activities and because our service is delivered through the cloud there’s no need for the re-engineering of any existing internal IT infrastructure...

Source: www.licensedashboard.com

License Management as a Service means

  • enabling SAM teams to focus on proactive actions
  • being audit ready in days rather than months
  • introducing cost efficiency through ongoing management savings
  • connecting (multiple) existing inventory solution to be queried by the LMaaS agent

Libby Phillipps on IT Security and Software Asset Management • /r/ITAssetManagement

Libby Phillipps of License Dashboard discusses SAM and Infosec in this article on SAMChannel -...

Source: www.reddit.com

Our collegues at License Dashboard take a different angle to underpin license management importance. Un-identified devices and their software present so far unknown security risks to the organisation. BYOD is another potential challenger. Renew your awareness about license management an ITsecuruty risks.

The ITAM Review 12 Box Assessment Model

12 Box Assessment: We’ve completed a number of SAM assessments for end user organisations over the last few years.

Source: www.itassetmanagement.net

A sound process model and some authority will help you to implement a healthy SAM services plan; plus some insights why you may have to recruit external expertise to reach your goals