Internal audits

If you’re overutilizing software or have had a history of M&A, you’re likely to be audited. Auditors frequently look six months to the past to determine compliance. Know your true license position by conducting an internal audit before the real thing comes. Get the key insights you need for your entire IT inventory and create your true license position with Flexera.

Internal audits look at several risk factors including software use, how lifecycle policies are governed, if vulnerabilities are patched in a timely manner and if IT is aware of all assets used in the organization. Legacy inventory tools do not provide the breadth (understanding of SaaS usage, etc.) or data enrichment details (EOL/EOS, vulnerabilities, etc.) required to prepare for an internal audit. Flexera helps you obtain information about your software entitlements and usage from multiple sources and automatically normalizes and enriches that data with curated content from the world’s largest data repository, Technopedia.

One of the first tests internal auditors run is to determine if there are end-of-life applications running in your environment. These applications are particularly vulnerable to threats. Additionally, they will investigate if you are patching vulnerabilities in a timely manner. Most hackers expose vulnerabilities within a week or 24 hours. To stay on top of vulnerabilities, prioritize your response by understanding where high impact vulnerabilities reside in your environment with market-leading threat advisories from Secunia Research.

With distributed purchasing of SaaS applications, IT has lost visibility into what applications the company has purchased and is using. Many of these applications bypass SSO platforms and employees use weak passwords making a favorable hunting ground for threat actors. Flexera provides usage visibility of 25,000 SaaS applications, both free and paid, to help you get ahead of these threats.

As software assets expand to the cloud, SAM gets increasingly complex. You need more than a workflow to optimize your software spend and mitigate audit risk. Unlike other SAM tools, Flexera is the only solution that solves the increasing complexity of licensing and identifying IT asset risk. Flexera possesses the depth, breadth and automation required to ensure adherence to your IT policies.