The practice of software asset management involves managing, maintaining, and optimizing the purchase, deployment, maintenance, utilization, and disposal of applications within an organization.
This is a blog on aspera.com for the eight best practices to follow for successful software license management. This list provides a list of free and commercial tools that can help with software inventory management (e.g., blacklisting, whitelisting, unauthorized software identification). This is a policy from the City of Edmonton regarding non-standard hardware and software requests. This checklist walks you through the definition of an Enterprise License and all of its components to help you determine whether or not an Enterprise License (EL) will meet your organization’s needs. This is Gartner’s rating based on customer reviews of software asset management tools in the market. This link is Microsoft’s page on evaluations of various versions of system center configuration manager and the install files. This is a PC magazine article that compares asset management software by it features. This sample policy from SANS, can be used to outline the requirements around installation of software on an organizations devices. This SANS software installation policy provides general guidance for what a end-user can and cannot install on corporate assets, to include an exception process for non-standard software requirements. This is a blog by technoresult on what SCCM is and how it works. In this guide, you’ll learn everything you need to know about SAM tools.
This document provides self-assessment guidance for conducting Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification (CMMC) assessments for Level 1. This document provides assessment guidance for conducting Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification (CMMC) assessments for Level 2. This document provides assessment guidance for conducting Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification (CMMC) assessments for Level 3. This is a software asset and license management best practices guide developed by Flexera. The purpose of this publication is to provide procedures for assessing the CUI requirements in NIST Special Publication 800-171. This is a blog that covers the differences between WSUS and SCCM as it relates to asset management. This is Pomona College’s system asset management policy and provides guidance on asset management.