Asset Management Holds the Key to Enterprise Defense

The article emphasizes that organizations struggle to maintain comprehensive asset inventories across on‑premises, cloud, endpoints, IoT, OT/ICS, and virtualized environments, which undermines risk assessment, vulnerability management, and incident response. Citing experts and examples (such as forgotten networked cameras being compromised), it calls for continuous asset discovery and attack surface management and references a Dark Reading report for guidance on gaining control of enterprise assets.