Intro
Organizations of all sizes and industries often struggle with missing, incomplete, or outdated asset inventories. Without clear visibility into their digital landscape, organizations are limited in their ability to protect themselves from security breaches—after all, you can’t protect what you can’t see.
By integrating seamlessly into your tech ecosystem, the Vulcan Cyber ExposureOS provides the visibility needed to maintain and secure all assets across your attack surface.
No CMDB: Building your asset inventory from scratch
For organizations without a centralized CMDB, the Vulcan Cyber ExposureOS offers a robust solution to build a complete asset inventory from the ground up.
Asset creation from scanners
- The Vulcan Cyber ExposureOS integrates directly with vulnerability scanners across the attack surface to automatically collect asset data and create a unified view of all assets within your environment. In case assets are not explicitly identified by the scanner, ExposureOS analyzes the detected vulnerabilities to infer the associated assets (such as systems, code projects, and images) and generate asset records.
Asset deduplication
- The Vulcan Cyber ExposureOS automatically removes redundant or overlapping asset entries to ensure a clean, consolidated asset inventory.
Management of stale/EOL assets
- The Vulcan Cyber ExposureOS identifies and archives assets that no longer exist or have reached end-of-life (EOL) status, ensuring that only active, valid assets remain in your inventory.
Contextual asset visibility
- The Vulcan Cyber ExposureOS integrates with cloud services like AWS and Azure to import detailed asset risk factors such as tags, environment (production/non-production), and location (external-facing or internal), providing a fully contextual view of assets, including their operational significance and risk exposure.
Dynamic asset ownership
- The Vulcan Cyber ExposureOS leverages asset metadata to identify and map asset ownership, ensuring clarity on who is responsible for each asset across your environment. This ownership information is dynamically updated as your organization evolves.
Incomplete CMDB: Filling in the gaps
For organizations with an incomplete CMDB, the Vulcan Cyber ExposureOS bridges the gap by consolidating scanner-detected assets with pre-existing CMDB records.
Asset consolidation
- The Vulcan Cyber ExposureOS combines asset data from both scanners and existing CMDB records, matching assets based on common identifiers such as IP addresses, metadata, and more, ensuring that all detected assets—whether found through scanning or manually recorded in your CMDB—are included in a unified inventory.
CMDB data enrichment
- The Vulcan Cyber ExposureOS enriches CMDB records with vulnerability data, environmental context, and risk assessments, directly linking vulnerabilities to the associated assets in your CMDB for accurate and comprehensive risk profiling.
Stale CMDB: Keeping asset data current
For organizations with a stale CMDB, the Vulcan Cyber ExposureOS automates the detection and archiving of expired or EOL assets.
Stale assets detection
- The Vulcan Cyber ExposureOS continuously monitors assets for inactivity or status changes, such as assets not detected in recent scans or marked as “terminated” on platforms like AWS. When an asset is identified as inactive, ExposureOS automatically removes it from the inventory, maintaining an up-to-date and relevant asset list.
Asset lifecycle and EOL management
- The Vulcan Cyber ExposureOS tracks assets throughout their lifecycle, detecting those that have been decommissioned or are no longer supported. It automatically identifies and archives assets that have reached their end-of-life (EOL) or termination status, ensuring your inventory reflects the current state of your environment.
