A cybersecurity analyst is reviewing the organization's vulnerability management program. The analyst emphasizes the need to improve the accuracy of the hardware and software inventory. What is the primary reason that maintaining an accurate asset inventory is a critical component of configuration management?
It fulfills all requirements for regulatory compliance reporting.
It provides a comprehensive baseline for tracking and mitigating known vulnerabilities.
It automatically remediates all identified configuration drifts from the baseline.
It replaces the need for active vulnerability scanning tools.
Maintaining an accurate asset inventory is fundamental to configuration management because it serves as the foundation for vulnerability management. An organization cannot effectively track vulnerabilities, apply patches, or manage configurations for assets it does not know exist. While an inventory supports compliance and informs patching strategies, its most critical role in this context is enabling the entire vulnerability management lifecycle.
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