5 Tips for infrastructure transparency
Summary
Transparency also helps you understand where your infrastructure is at risk – such as the existence of shadow IT, cyber security vulnerabilities, and more. I spoke with Julian Kienberger of Qbilon, an IT architecture modeling tool, about 5 ways companies can move towards having better visibility of their infrastructure. In any IT environment, there are many different data sources distributed across the organization – application databases, IT management tools, Excel spreadsheets, and even employee knowledge. This will help you understand dependencies and highlight issues, which makes it possible to build up comprehensive information about an asset, even from just two data sources. Julian covered a lot more in his discussion with us, including the importance of understanding real use cases that an IT map can address, and the problems that organizations face with creating infrastructure transparency.