Glossary of Compliance
Compliance Glossary
Our list of curated compliance glossary offers everything you to know about compliance in one place.
Asset Inventory
An I.T. team maintains an asset inventory to make sure they provide an organization with the I.T. resources they need in a cost-effective, efficient manner. The asset data stored in this inventory includes location, users, performance, maintenance and support, documentation, licenses, lifecycle stage, compliance, cost, and more. I.T. assets can include:
– Hardware – servers, smartphones, laptops, printers, etc.
– Software inventory – software, clouds, software as a service (SaaS), etc.
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