You have been hired as an information security analyst at a small company called Astounding Appliances

You have been hired as an information security analyst at a small company called Astounding Appliances, which sells appliances online. Astounding Appliances owns and hosts all of its IT assets and forward-facing web applications onsite. The assets are about 5 years old, and the company is seeking to expand its operations in the next 5 years. In addition to workstations and laptop computers for all employees, cell phones for executives, multifunction printers, and copiers, Astounding Appliances has the following IT assets:

• Web servers
• Routers
• Switches
• Customer databases
• Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) telephone system

Your manager has asked you to help her provide a basic IT asset inventory. The company has never created a list of its IT assets before and there is no money in the budget to buy IT asset inventory software.

Qustion 1: Start preparing the IT asset inventory for the company using the information that you have learned in this lab. You should provide a list that includes at least five critical elements that should be included in the organization’s IT asset inventory. Next, identify real-world examples for those critical elements for each of the assets listed above.