We all know that we should be keeping an up-to-date inventory of all of our company-owned assets but even when we think we have that in order we often forget that we should be inventorying software and applications used to drive the business operations.

A key identifier to capture is which of these software solutions is there a data sharing relationship involved as well as the type of data that is processed, stored, or transmitted within these solutions.

We will utilize the application xref as a means to track company software and applications across the organization's various business units. The larger the organization the more opportunity security can provide inoperability presenting and standardizing solutions sets the company utilizes.