Assets

The Assets page provides insight into your organization's host assets, cloud resources, web applications, and domain inventory.

About Assets

With Tenable Vulnerability Management you can track assets that belong to your organization. Assets are entities of value on a network that can be exploited. This includes laptops, desktops, servers, routers, mobile phones, virtual machines, software containers, and cloud instances. By providing comprehensive information about the assets that belong to your organization, Tenable Vulnerability Management helps to eliminate potential security risks, identify under-utilized resources, and support compliance efforts.

Tenable Vulnerability Management automatically creates or updates assets when a scan completes or scan results are imported. Tenable Vulnerability Management attempts to match incoming scan data to existing assets using a complex algorithm. This algorithm looks at attributes of the scanned hosts and employs a variety of heuristics to choose the best possible match. If Tenable Vulnerability Management cannot find a match, the system assumes this is the first time Tenable Vulnerability Management has encountered the asset and creates a new record for it. Otherwise, if Tenable Vulnerability Management finds a matching asset, the system updates any properties that have changed since the last time Tenable Vulnerability Management encountered the asset.

In addition to vulnerability information, Tenable Vulnerability Management also attempts to gather other information about the asset, including:

• Interfaces (IP address and MAC address)
• DNS Names
• NetBIOS Name
• Operating System
• Installed Software
• UUIDS (Tenable, ePO, BIOS)
• Whether an agent is present

In this Section

This section contains a complete set of documentation for the Assets page and includes the following topics: