Manage Asset Inventory

Asset inventory is a critical aspect of any robust cybersecurity strategy. It provides a comprehensive, real-time view of all the assets within your environment, ranging from physical hosts to installed software and open network ports. This visibility is important for understanding your organization’s attack surface, where an unauthorized user could attempt to enter or extract data.

By maintaining a well-organized and continuously updated asset inventory, you empower your security teams to:

• Identify vulnerabilities before they are exploited.
• Prioritize risk mitigation based on asset criticality.
• Ensure compliance with internal policies and external regulations.
• Respond swiftly to incidents with accurate context.

With a unified view of your assets, you can make informed decisions directly impacting your security posture and risk management strategy.

The Inventory tab has three sub tabs: Host, Software, and Open Ports.

• Host

  The Host sub-tab offers a detailed view of all AD services enabled in your environment. You can access key metadata for each host to assess its role and risk level.

• Software

  The Software sub-tab provides a centralized catalog of all applications and services installed across your hosts. It enables visibility into software assets, helping you monitor usage, assess risk, and ensure compliance.

• Open Ports

  The Open Ports sub-tab provides critical visibility into the network exposure of your assets by listing all currently open ports across your hosts. Open ports can serve as entry points for external threats, making it essential to monitor and manage them as part of your security posture.

Common Functions Available Across All Tabs

Search for assets

You can search for assets using a Qualys Query Language (QQL) for a specific time frame.

The date search evaluates only UTC format for all date-related tokens. The actual search results might show the date according to your time zone.

Download  report 

You can download the list using the download  icon.

Bar chart representation

You can view bar charts illustrating the top hardware and operating system categories. Click on a specific bar in the chart to see a list of assets related to that category. You can toggle the display of the bar chart using  icon.

Quick Actions Menu

You can perform multiple actions, such as viewing asset details, adding tags to the asset, and removing tags of the asset from the Quick Actions menu.

Actions Menu

You can select multiple entries from the list and perform the action, such as Add Tags, Remove Tags, Activate Assets, or Go to Asset Activation Workflow from the Actions menu.

Quick Filters

The left pane shows the total assets matching your search criteria and the assets based on the Sources, Manufacturers, and Tags with their count of assets. Click the count of assets to view the list of assets. 

Group By Filters

Group assets are based on criteria or categories, such as external attack surface, operating system, hardware, AWS, and so on. As shown in the following example, some categories have further subcategories.