QUESTION 20 OF 25

How important is maintaining accurate registration of the software?

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"It is critical to maintain accurate registration information about the software and organization utilizes for several reasons. These include ensuring that the software is legitimate and is accompanied by an authorized license, knowing the revision level of the software, understanding who is authorized to use the product, and to be able to retrieve the information to submit a warranty claim or purchase an upgrade or additional licenses."

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Maintaining proper licenses of the software being used in the organization is essential. Using software with expired licenses could open your organization to legal liability, lack of vendor support, no security updates, and loss of key functionality.
On my team once every 6 months we sat down and analyze that all the software we use for our operations is current, relevant and we create calendar entries to alert us 90 days prior to the software's renewal.

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Fantastic! You've expressed why accurate software registration is vital and shared how you ensure that registrations are kept current.

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