View Assets in GAV

The Inventory > Assets tab gives you asset information, such as identity, running services, installed software, open ports, users, and more. The GAV gives you deep visibility into your assets granting you a detailed, multidimensional view of each one that encompasses both its IT and security data. You can flag issues such as configuration problems, security risks, IT policy violations and regulatory non-compliance with an asset profile that includes a wealth of data.

You can see an overview of assets in your organization from the Assets tab.

Inventory tab.

(1) Search for Assets: You can search for assets using a Qualys Query Language (QQL) query for a specific timeframe. For more information, see Qualys Query Language.

Note: For all the date-related tokens, the date search is evaluated only for UTC format. The actual search results might show you the date as per your time zone.

(2) Bar Chart Representation: View bar charts for the top hardware and operating system categories. Click a specific bar from the chart to view the list of assets. For more information on the categories, see the Usage Guides - Hardware and Operating System in the Appendix.

(3) Search criteria provided in the left pane: View the total assets matching your search criteria and the asset manufacturer and asset tags with their count of assets from the left pane. Click the count of assets to view the list of assets.

(4) Quick Actions Menu: You can perform multiple actions, such as viewing asset details, adding tags to the asset, and purging the asset from the Quick Actions menu.

- In a single operation, you can add tags to a maximum of 10,000 assets. For more information, see Manage Asset Tags

- You can not purge GCP assets using on-demand method (from Inventory > Assets) tab.

- You can activate passive sensor assets by clicking the 'Activate' option under the Quick Actions menu. But you can’t activate the ICS assets.

(5) Asset Criticality Score: View the asset criticality score for the assets. For more information, see Asset Criticality Score.

(6) TruRisk Scrore: You can see the TruRisk Score of the asset. The TruRisk score enables you to prioritize vulnerabilities, assets, and groups of assets based on the actual risk they pose to the organization. For more information, see TruRisk Score.

(7) Asset Discovery Score: You can see different sources from where the asset was collected. For more information, see Sources Column Details in GAV.

8) Group assets based on criteria or categories, such as External Attack Surface, Operating System, Hardware, AWS, and so on. As shown in the following  example, for some of the categories, further subcategories are also available.

Group Assets by

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- View Asset Details

- Assets discovered by Cloud Agent as Passive Sensor  

- Software Composition Analysis

- Download Asset Details Information

- Activate Assets

- TruRisk Score 

- Asset Criticality Score

- Widget Creation in GAV