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One onboarding ticket can hold a full name, home address, device serial and passport scan. Article 32 of the General Data Protection Regulation requires you to ensure a level of security appropriate to the risk.

An asset management policy states who owns each item, what records must exist, and what happens before equipment is bought, moved, or destroyed. Most IT teams do not need forty pages. They need rules that survive an audit and a register matching reality.

Less time coordinating, more flexibility to fit your schedule.

To reduce vendor sprawl, start with inventorying what your tools do, who depends on them, and where their capabilities overlap. Then decide which tools to retain, connect, or replace. When going away from tool sprawl, you need to aim for a smaller toolset that your team can manage while still supporting the work your organization needs. This guide walks through spotting unnecessary fragmentation, assessing whether consolidating makes sense or not, and transitioning to it.

It is not always possible to patch vulnerabilities as quickly as hackers exploit them, but recent figures show just how much this gap has widened. FortiGuard Labs estimates that the time between the disclosure of a critical vulnerability and its active exploitation has dropped sharply to between 24 and 48 hours. By contrast, Verizon’s 2026 Data Breach Investigations Report shows that organizations take a median of 43 days to complete vulnerability remediation.

Almaden, Inc. today announced the general availability of CIQ Cloud, its Operational Visibility platform designed to help Managed Service Providers (MSPs) and internal IT teams monitor, understand, govern and optimize increasingly complex cloud and SaaS environments. Modern organizations rely on Microsoft 365, Google Workspace, cloud infrastructure, SaaS applications, identity services, security platforms, DNS and a rapidly growing range of AI technologies.