Welcome to the Tenable One Device Profiling Quick Reference Guide

Last updated: August 29, 2024

Device Profiling is a framework that can be used to classify assets in a network. The first phase will focus on device classification while future phases will provide richer context about the asset; e.g. device ownership, administration and location. The framework is designed to be transparent, extendable, and explainable and to produce a holistic (“global”) profile of an asset.

In the Tenable Inventory user interface, you can view the profile of an asset via the Asset Details page.

Framework

Where possible, each device is assigned a Device Profile and a Device Functionality. A profile is meant to answer the question: “What is this device?”.

In the current framework, each asset belongs to only one of the following profiles:

• Cloud computing device

• Compute and Application Server

• Compute and Application Server (Virtual Machine)

• Healthcare device

• Internet of Things device

• Legacy device

• Network Infrastructure device

• Network Infrastructure device (Virtual Machine)

• OT or Industrial Internet of Things device

• Peripheral device

• Personal Computing device

• Telecommunication device

• Undefined Class

• Workload device or Virtual Machine

A profile captures the fundamental similarity between all devices that belong to the profile and can be used for clustering. While the profile label captures fundamental similarity between the devices in a class, the different functionality within the class capture the fundamental differences between the devices in the class.

Device functionality answers the question: “What does the device do? Or What functionality does it provide?”

Each device can have one or more functionality labels as devices can be multi-functional. Devices within a functionality label share fundamentally similar attributes. Additionally, each Device Profile includes a set of Device Functionality labels. For more information, see Device Profiles and Functionality.