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“Broken Discovery: Why Asset Inventories Still Fail”
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Dynamic Cloud Resources Evade Traditional Scanners
New VMs, containers, and services spin up and down constantly. Scanners miss them unless scheduled frequently — which rarely happens. Assets exist only briefly but carry full exposure.
Shadow IT Grows Faster Than It’s Detected
Teams adopt tools or spin up SaaS accounts without security sign-off. These tools access sensitive data yet remain invisible. Discovery depends on manual audits or luck.
CMDBs are outdated or incomplete, and tags are applied inconsistently. Security teams act on incorrect assumptions about ownership or exposure. Response time suffers when no one “owns” the asset.
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DNS and IP-Based Discovery Misses Cloud-Native Services
APIs, queues, and serverless functions don’t show up in network scans. They’re decoupled from traditional host-based inventory. A whole layer of assets exists beyond what the tools see.
Retired Systems Still Respond and Expose Services
Old servers remain reachable and even authenticate users. No one decommissions them properly, leaving forgotten services online. These systems become silent breach points.
Inventory Is Treated as a One-Time Project
Asset discovery is done quarterly or during audits — not continuously. Change happens daily, and risk emerges instantly. Without real-time visibility, inventories become fiction.
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