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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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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.