SAM and Security Matt Ward Softcat Head of ITAM Example Presentation Name

Example Presentation Name
SAM and Security
Matt Ward
Softcat Head of ITAM
Presentation Date
Traditional barriers are moving
• You need to know what you own otherwise how can you secure it.
• Anti Virus
• Firewalls
• VPN/Tokens
• Patch management
• Software requests
• People have done the basics/ maturity is improving in some regions
• Security basics are a commodity
Typical lifecycle for SAM
Request
Retire
Approve
People
Process
Product
Upgrade
Manage
Purchase
Deploy
The new breed of SAM should Include Shadow IT
• Multiple devices
• Roaming profiles
• VDI
• Streaming
• Smart phone
• User based licensing
• Cloud models
So how do manage Shadow IT?….. Security
• EDM
• Open source code –vulnerabilities/ code audit
• Cloud Monitoring- Content awareness
• Commercially graded applications
• Penetration testing
The future
• Security and compliance will merge more
• Cloud and managed services will accelerate the need to secure and manage above the
traditional SAM
• User based model (1 user 50 devices) will see the need to control devices more if you
are to stay in compliance.
• SAM can improve security tools.
• The two teams should work closely together.