Asset management and monitoring

Asset management and monitoring are processes and it needs to be regulated as per ISO 27001 and cloud security alliance standards.
In the case of cloud computing, many resources and assets are managed and monitored by the provider, but the customers might need to manage some assets and resources usually the more abstract and high- level assets and resources.

Customer runs applications on platform as a service, the provider manages the hardware, operating system and applications services but the customer needs to manage the apps running on the platform.

Similarly, the provider manages all assets from hardware to applications service in software as a service but the customer needs to manage the user account provisioning and customization.

Asset managements is crucial administrative tasks in cloud computing, and it is mandatory also from a security perspective. Standards are essential to allow customers integrate asset management interface.