Inventory

OT Security's Automated Asset Discovery, Classification, and Management provides an accurate, up-to-date asset inventory by continuously tracking all changes to devices. This simplifies sustaining of operational continuity, reliability, and safety. It also plays a key role in planning maintenance projects, prioritizing upgrades, patch deployments, incident response, and mitigation efforts.

Viewing Assets

All the assets in the network appear on the Inventory pages. The Inventory page includes details about the asset that enables comprehensive asset management as well as monitoring of the status of each asset and its related events. OT Security collects this data using the Network Detection and Active Query capabilities. The All page shows data for all types of assets. In addition, specific subsets of the assets are shown on separate screens for each of the following asset types: Controllers and Modules, Network Assets, and IoT.

Note: The Network Assets screen includes all types of assets that aren’t included in the Controllers and Modules or IoT screens.

For each of the asset pages (All, Controllers and Modules, Network Assets, and IoT), you can customize the display settings by adjusting which columns are displayed and where each column is positioned. You can also sort and filter the assets list as well as perform a search. For information about how to customize tables, see Management Console User Interface Elements.

The following table describes parameters on the Inventory pages.

Parameters marked with an “*” are only shown on the Controllers page.

Parameter Description
Name The name of the asset in the network. Click the name of the asset to view the Asset Details screen for that asset (See Inventory.)
IP

The IP address of the asset.

Note: An asset may have multiple IP addresses.

Note: IP addresses labeled as Direct are ones with which Tenable has established a direct connection. If there is no label, it means Tenable has discovered the IP without direct communication.

Note: Assets can be filtered by IP range. For more on filtering, see Management Console User Interface Elements.

MAC The MAC address of the asset.
Network Segment The Network Segment that the IP/s of this asset are assigned to.
Type The type of asset, Controller, I/O, or Communication, etc. see Asset Types.
Backplane* The backplane unit that the asset is connected to. Additional details about the backplane configuration are shown in the Asset Details screen.
Slot* For assets that are on backplanes, shows the number of the slot to which the asset is attached.
Vendor The asset vendor.
Family* The family name of the product as defined by the asset vendor.
Firmware The firmware version currently installed on the asset.
Location The location of the asset as input by the user in the OT Security asset details. See Edit Asset Details.
Last Seen The time at which the device was last seen by OT Security. This is the last time that the device was connected to the network or performed an activity.
OS The OS running on the asset.
Model Name The model name of the asset.
State*

The device state. Possible values:

  • Backup – the controller is running as a backup to a primary controller.

  • Fault – the controller is in fault mode.

  • NoConfig – no configuration has been set for the controller.

  • Running – the controller is running.

  • Stopped – the controller is not running.

  • Unknown – the state is unknown.

Description A brief description of the asset, as configured by the user in the OT Security asset details. See Edit Asset Details.
Risk A measure of the degree of risk related to this asset on a scale from 0 (no risk) to 100 (extremely high risk). For an explanation of how the Risk score is calculated, see Risk Assessment.
Criticality A measure of the importance of this asset to the proper functioning of the system. A value is assigned automatically to each asset based on the asset type. You can manually adjust the value.
Purdue Level The Purdue level of the asset (0=Physical process, 1=Intelligent devices, 2=Control systems, 3=Manufacturing operations systems, 4=Business logistics systems).
Custom Field You can create custom fields to tag your assets with relevant info. The custom field can be a link to an external resource.

Asset Types

The following table describes the various types of assets identified by OT Security. It also shows the icon by which each asset type is represented in the OT Security Management Console (for example on the Network Map screen).

Category Default Criticality Level / Purdue Level Description Sub-Types
Controllers High / 1 An industrial computer control system that continuously monitors the state of input devices and makes decisions based upon a custom program to control the state of output devices. This category includes all types of controllers and their related components.

 

Controller

PLC

DCS

IED

RTU

 

BMSController

Robot

CommunicationModule

I/O Module

 

CNC

PowerSupply

 

BackplaneModule

Field Devices High / 1 An industrial device (for example sensor, actuator, electric motor) that uses industrial protocols to send information to ICS systems.

FieldDevice

 

PowerMeter

RemoteI/O

 

Relay

 

Inverter

 

IndustrialSensor

 

Drive

 

Actuator

OT Devices Medium / 2 This category includes all types of OT devices.

 

OTDevice

 

 

IndustrialRouter

 

IndustrialSwitch

 

IndustrialGateway

 

IndustrialNetworkDevice

IndustrialPrinter

OT Servers Medium / 2 A computer/device that is used to access industrial data. This category includes all types of OT servers and their related components.

 

OTServer

 

 

Historian

 

HMI

 

DataLogger

Network Devices Medium / 3 A networking device (for example a switch or a router). This category includes all types of network devices and their related components.

 

NetworkDevice

 

 

Router

 

Switch

 

Serial-EthernetBridge

 

Gateway

 

Hub

 

WirelessAccessPoint

 

Firewall

 

Converter

 

Repeater

 

Radio

Workstations Low / 3 A computer that is connected to the network and used to control the PLCs. This category includes all types of workstations and their related components.

 

Workstation

 

 

OT Workstation

 

EngineeringStation

 

VirtualWorkstation

Servers Low / 3 This category includes various types of IT servers.

 

Server

 

 

FileServer

 

WebServer

 

VirtualServer

 

SecurityAppliance

 

TenableICP

 

TenableEM

 

TenableSensor

 

Domain Controller

 

IoT

IoTs Low / 3 This category includes various type of interrelated devices.

 

Camera

 

 

Panel

 

Projector

 

VOIPDevice

 

3DPrinter

 

Printer

 

UPS

 

IP Phone

 

SmartSensor

 

BarcodeScanner

 

AccessControlSystem

 

LightingControl

 

HVACModule

 

SmartHub

 

SmartTV

 

MedicalDevice

 

Tablet

 

MobileDevice

 

StorageDevice

Endpoints Low / 3 An unidentified IP address in the network.

 

Endpoint