Assets

Assets are entities of value on your network that can be exploited. They include laptops, desktops, servers, routers, mobile phones, virtual machines, software containers, and cloud instances. Use the Assets workbench to get insight into assets broken down into four categories: host assets, cloud resources, web applications, and domain inventory.

When scans complete or you import scan results, Tenable Vulnerability Management uses an algorithm to look at the hosts from the scan or the import. It employs heuristics to match hosts with existing assets and update any changed properties—or, when no match is found, to create new assets. When available, Tenable Vulnerability Management also collects information about asset interfaces (IP and MAC address), DNS name, NetBIOS name, operating system, installed software, UUIDS (Tenable, ePO, BIOS), and if an Agent is installed.

Note: Tenable Vulnerability Management ages out assets which have not been updated for more than 15 months.

The following video shows the Assets workbench.

The topics in this section explain how to use the Assets workbench, view asset details, export assets, use filters, and more.