The Importance of Passive Asset Discovery

It’s the fifth requirement in CIS Control 1 : Use a passive asset discovery tool. Sounds simple enough. But what does it mean? And what, specifically, makes it so important that it became one of the first five requirements of the widely applied CIS Controls used by so many organizations to establish their most basic levels of cyber hygiene? The usefulness of passive asset discovery and the importance of finding the right passive asset discovery tool are the subjects of …

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