Data Hygiene

Data Hygiene is an Axonius-powered engine that audits every device against a "gold standard" of quality and assigns a Verified/Unverified status to every record.

The Challenge

The Devices inventory often contains significant "noise" - such as stale, single-source, or "ghost" records. The might lead to the following issues:

• Operational Inefficiency: Users are forced to build complex queries with multiple conditions and custom dashboards to get a "clean" view of their inventory.
• Lack of Standardization: Without a productized "triage" workflow, there is no consistent way to identify and fix correlation or identity gaps, and many processes have to involve manual workflows. This leads to fragmented data management across different environments.
• Trust Gap: "Noisy" inventory is confusing and difficult to work with - from performing simple, daily tasks to satisfying cross-organizational audit requirements.

Our Solution

The Data Hygiene hub allows you to identify which devices aren't verified, understand why, and pinpoint the adapters that are driving the most issues. It shows clear trends and statistics regarding the verification status of your device inventory, offers an out-of-the-box mechanism to verify devices be predefined conditions, and also allows you to create your own, custom conditions.

Accessing Data Hygiene in Axonius

In Axonius New Navigation Experience, navigate to Inventory > Inventory Tools > Data Hygiene.

The Overview Dashboard opens by default.

Access Management

• Admins can access the Data Hygiene page and perform actions in it by default: disable/enable gates, customize verification gates, define custom overrides, and more.
• Admins can grant non-admin users the following permissions:
  • View - User can see the dashboards and the configuration page, but cannot modify any data.
  • Manage Data Hygiene - Same permissions as admin.
• Users with data scope cannot access Data Hygiene.

Viewing Verification Data on the Devices Page

Select the relevant tab from the Devices page to see only Verified/Unverified Devices, or All Devices:

To see data hygiene data, click Edit Columns and add the following fields to the Devices table:

• Axonius Verified - Yes or No.
• Axonius Verification Reasons - A multi-value field indicating which gate(s) caused a device to be Verified or Unverified. The possible values are:

  • Failure reasons - Recency Failure, Key IDs Failure, Instability Failure, Low Confidence Source Failure, or Manually Unverified

  • Success reasons - Manually Verified, Manually Unverified, or Manually Created Asset

    Notes

    • When a device was verified due to success in all gates (without manual intervention), the Axonius Verification Reasons field is empty.
    • Devices classified as IoT and devices you created manually in Axonius go through all verification gates like any other device. To keep specific devices verified, use Custom Exceptions.

Getting Started with Data Hygiene

Overview Dashboard - Explore the overall verification status of your device inventory.

Verification Gates - Set the requirements for a device to be categorized as Verified.

Custom Overrides - Define queries, or manually override specific devices from the Devices page, to override the predefined Verification Gates.