![]() ![]() Keeping track of IT assets with Lansweeper Those risk categories, particularly the last two, apply perfectly to the dark art of asset management – you can’t manage and control what you don’t know you have. One of the key concepts in risk management is the idea that there are risks that we are aware of and understand (known knowns), there are those that we are aware of, but don’t understand (known unknowns), those that we understand, but are not aware of (unknown knowns) and those that we are neither aware of, nor understand (unknown unknowns).īy now, you're probably asking, “Where the heck is he going with this?” Let me explain. While the phrasing of the statement drew much comment and no little ridicule, what he was saying was basically true. But there are also unknown unknowns - the ones we don’t know we don’t know.” We also know there are known unknowns that is to say we know there are some things we do not know. “ …there are known knowns there are things we know we know. As former US Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld once (in)famously said:
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