Device Inventory Classification Overview

The Challenge

While many organizations have sufficient asset visibility, they are still limited in making actionable insights due to:

• Flat inventory without context: Comprehensive asset inventory often lacks the necessary business context and risk insights for effective prioritization. This prevents teams from distinguishing critical assets - for example, production servers - from low-value ones (for example, test VMs).
• Ineffective prioritization: Without proper asset classification, teams struggle during security events: rather than targeting critical assets first when vulnerabilities emerge, they make arbitrary system patching. This directly increases security risk.
• Manual workarounds: Organizations often resort to time-consuming, error-prone solutions, and disconnected processes to classify assets. For example - spreadsheet exports and custom automation scripts. These manual, fragmented workarounds highlight a significant operational gap.

Our Solution

We at Axonius understand that asset classification inconsistencies demand flexible, adaptable solutions, rather than the one-size-fits-all approach. Device Inventory Classification aims to provide just this type of solution by allowing organizations to:

• Effectively understand and manage security risks: Device Inventory Classification provides actionable insights to distinguish critical assets from low-risk ones, enabling better prioritization during security events.
• Adhere to compliance and regulatory standards: By implementing Axonius' structured asset classification, you can facilitate the enforcement of security policies and adherence to industry regulations.
• Enhance operational efficiency and business continuity: Reduce reliance on manual workarounds by offering an intuitive, centralized classification system.
• Support diverse use cases: Improve data quality and get a clearer value realization across multiple programs and use cases.