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Conduct an internet or library search on the importance of IT asset management and/or IT asset inventory. Read one or two articles that you find interesting.
1. Identify the article(s) you read about IT asset management and inventory, including a link to the article(s).

Conduct an internet or library search on why an IT asset inventory is critical to information security operations. Read one or two articles that you find interesting.
2. Identify the article(s) you read about the relationship between IT asset inventory and information security operations, including a link to the article(s).
3. Summarize the articles you read and list three to five ways that an organization might use an asset inventory.

Conduct an internet or library search on elements that should be included in an IT asset inventory. Read one or two articles that you find most interesting.
4. Identify the article(s) you read about elements of an IT asset inventory, including a link to the article(s).
5. Summarize the articles you read and list at least five elements that should be included in an organization’s IT asset inventory and why each element is important.

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You have been hired as an information security analyst at a small company called Astounding Appliances, which sells appliances online. Astounding Appliances owns and hosts all of its IT assets and forward-facing web applications onsite. The assets are about 5 years old, and the company is seeking to expand its operations in the next 5 years. In addition to workstations and laptop computers for all employees, cell phones for executives, multifunction printers, and copiers, Astounding Appliances has the following IT assets:
• Web servers
• Routers
• Switches
• Customer databases
• Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) telephone system
Your manager has asked you to help her prepare a basic IT asset inventory. The company has never created a list of its IT assets before and there is no money in the budget to buy IT asset inventory software.

1. Start preparing the IT asset inventory for the company using the information that you have learned in this lab. You should prepare a list that includes at least five critical elements that should be included in the organization’s IT asset inventory. Next, identify real-world examples for those critical elements for each of the assets listed above.

Sample Solution

An episode of The Flash entitled “Flashpoint” follows a superhero travelling to the past in an attempt to revive his mother.  By doing so, The Flash rewrites history and attains the life he had always envisioned.  He soon discerns that his actions do not come without ramifications as his new utopian world soon begins to combust, forcing him to reverse his path and scrape his way back to reality.  However, the life to which he returns does not mirror the one he once had.  The Flash essentially establishes three separate timelines: the flawed original, the self-destructive fantasy, and the altered reality.  Now, he can never return to his first life as he has sent it into oblivion. The same is true for the creator of the beloved television program Gilmore Girls, Amy Sherman-Palladino, who attempted to time travel to the past when she revived the show in the four-film series Gilmore Girls: A Year in the Life.  Because she left the original show before its conclusion, she viewed the reunion as her opportunity to rewrite the story’s ending.  As a result, three different timelines emerged: the show’s actual ending, Sherman-Palladino’s desired ending, and the revival’s re-creation of her vision.  Sherman-Palladino believed her revival would remedy the original show’s unfit conclusion, an idea that only further damaged the story and its characters.

Sherman-Palladino left Gilmore Girls in April 2006, a time when MySpace prevailed and Pluto was a planet.  There were no IPhones or African-American presidents.  Over the past decade, however, our society has undergone substantial changes, and so have we, the exception being Sherman-Palladino.  The moment she departed the show, she clicked pause and left her vision of the story in 2006.  A decade later, she found her way back to that outdated, no longer relevant remote control and hit “play”.  The revival picked up where Sherman-Palladino left off, a place that now existed solely in her imagination.  As a result, she implemented the concluding message she had envisioned in 2006 into the 2016 reunion series, essentially neglecting the elapsed time.  By ending with a single, pregnant Rory, Sherman-Palladino aimed to represent the circle of life through mirroring Lorelai’s past.  This pattern was an overarching theme throug

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