Asset Classes

Classes are how Tenable Inventory groups assets. Because each asset has a different business purpose, classes allow you to easily separate asset data based on its type to get the most out of your analytics.

The asset class types used in Tenable Inventory are as follows:

Class	Description
All Assets	All assets from all sources, including third-party.
Account	The Identity login account for a software resource.
Container	Container image (e.g., Docker images).
Device	Computing devices with a network stack (i.e., IP address) that could, theoretically, be a target of a Nessus scan, including the following: Traditional VM/Tenable Vulnerability Management hosts Active Directory "computer" object classes Cloud runtimes instances, such as EC2 instances OT devices ASM For more information about how devices are profiled, see the Tenable One Device Profiling Quick Reference Guide.
Group	A grouping of persons or other groups.
Infrastructure As Code	Infrastructure as Code (e.g., Terraform, Cloud Formation).
Other Resource	General computing resources. This is a general class for all resources, including cloud runtime resources and non-host, non-identity AD assets.
Resource	An entity that an identity, Group, or Role has permissions to.
Role	Target for permissions that can be granted to persons and groups.
Storage	Cloud storage services, including AWS S3, Azure Blobs, and GCP Storage Bucket.
Web Application	Customer applications exposed on the internet .