The point: Two-thirds of German enterprises cannot fully monitor and manage their IT assets, intensifying security and compliance risks.
Two-thirds of German enterprises cannot fully monitor and manage their IT assets. These control losses often result from decentralized cloud infrastructures and shadow IT systems.
A recent survey shows that 66% of companies in Germany have lost visibility over their IT assets. This refers to all hardware, software, and cloud resources deployed in the organization but not centrally recorded or managed.
For CISOs, this loss of control represents a significant security risk. Uninventoried assets cannot be patched, security configurations cannot be enforced, and access management becomes impossible. At the same time, this complicates compliance with regulatory requirements such as BSI C5, NIS2, or industry-specific standards that demand documented asset visibility.
Fragmentation often arises from the decentralization of IT infrastructure across multiple cloud platforms, locations, and business units, as well as from uncontrolled SaaS applications that employees independently deploy (shadow IT). A strategy for asset discovery, centralized inventory management, and continuous monitoring is therefore essential.
Source: news.google.com · Published 5 July 2026
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