IT Discovery for PCI DSS: Identifying Assets Around the Cardholder Data Environment
A bank may know exactly which payment database holds cardholder data. That knowledge does not define the complete PCI DSS …
ITAM for SaaS Companies: Tracking Software Licensing Across a Changing Stack
An engineering team adopts a new monitoring tool. Another team already holds licenses for a product that does the same …
IT Discovery in Pharma: Identifying Enterprise IT Assets for Regulatory Audit Scope
A pharmaceutical company can run thousands of enterprise IT assets across plants, labs, clinics, and corporate environments. Only some of …
ITAM in Pharmaceuticals and Life Sciences: The Gap Between R&D and Compliance
On September 23, 2025, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration issued a Warning Letter (MARCS-CMS 711191) to Persōn & Covey, …
ITAM in Insurance: Tracking Aging Infrastructure Nearing End of Life
An enterprise server can continue processing insurance policy transactions without throwing a single hardware error. A core network switch can …
Tracking Public IT Assets for Audit and Budget Reporting
When state or federal auditors review public sector IT operations, missing asset records and inaccurate software license reports trigger immediate …
ITAM in Retail and E-commerce: The POS Blind Spot Nobody Reconciles
In early 2025, security researchers discovered that a widely deployed e-commerce and retail point-of-sale integration gateway had been compromised via …
ITAM for Aviation and Airlines: What TSA’s Directive Actually Requires
Ask an aviation IT leader what “safety-critical compliance” means, and the answer is almost always airworthiness. DO-178C for software, DO-254 …
