Unified Asset Inventory

The Unified Asset Inventory (UAI) provides a single, comprehensive view of all assets across your organization’s hybrid IT environment. It consolidates asset data from Identity, Applications, Compute, Containers, Storage, Software, Network, Resources, and Certificates into a single inventory.

Currently, the Unified Asset Inventory for ETM Identity supports identity assets such as user groups and roles. 

UAI unifies asset discovery, classification, and context across different company modules and external integrations. This approach eliminates isolated views. As a result, every asset is visible, whether it is cloud-based, on-premises, or externally integrated. Additionally, all assets can be searched easily and assessed consistently.

This feature is available on request; contact Qualys support or your Technical Account Manager (TAM) to activate it for your account.

Unified Asset Inventory Features

The following are features of UAI: 

• A centralized asset inventory serving as the single source of truth for all asset types.
• Unified asset visibility across company-managed and externally discovered or integrated assets.
• Enabled cross-asset tagging to associate business services with infrastructure, applications, and identities.
• Added global search across all asset classes using hostnames, tags, domains, and service names.

Unified Asset Tagging

You can now apply the same tag across multiple asset types, enabling a business-centric view of your infrastructure.

Example:

Apply the tag Banking Service to on-prem hosts, cloud storage (S3), containers, web applications, and certificates. A single dashboard or report can then show all assets supporting the Banking Service along with their associated security findings.

Unified Search Across All Asset Types

UAI enables a single search experience across the entire asset landscape. You can search using:

• Hostnames or IPs
• Tag names (business services, environments, owners)
• Domains or application names
• Service or resource identifiers

Search results return all related assets across compute, containers, storage, applications, identities, and certificates, along with their corresponding security assessments.

Supported Asset Classes and Subclasses

Unified Asset Inventory includes the following asset classes and key subclasses:

• AD Assets
  • Virtual Machines
  • Physical Hosts
  • Generic compute resources
• Identity
  • User Identities
  • Group Identities
  • Role Identities

Role in UAI is a new identity asset type that represents permissions and access rights assigned to users in cloud identity platforms (Entra ID and Okta). Roles are NOT supported in Active Directory - they only exist in cloud identity providers.