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You Can't Manage What You Can't See
As your organization grows, so does the risk of introducing gaps in network visibility.
Can you be sure you’re maintaining 100% visibility?
Asset visibility is a critical component of effective cybersecurity and network management, yet it presents numerous challenges for organizations.
The dynamic nature of IT environments, with assets constantly being added, removed, or modified, makes it difficult to maintain an accurate and comprehensive inventory. This is compounded by the presence of shadow IT, where unauthorized devices and software are used without the knowledge of IT departments, further obscuring visibility.
FireMon Cybersecurity Asset Management Features
FireMon Asset Manager delivers a comprehensive inventory of every L2 and L3 device across on-premises and cloud environments, using active, passive, and targeted discovery methods, including WMI, OSPF, SNMP, and outside-in leak path detection, to identify endpoints, routers, switches, and OT/IoT devices. Automatic device profiling adds custom details on top, with support for cloud, virtual, physical, and SDN environments.
Asset Manager profiles devices automatically and enriches that data with external integrations, including SOAR and vulnerability scanners, for faster response to potential threats. A graphical view of L2/L3 devices and connections, with navigation tools for deeper inspection and custom grouping by attribute, device, OS, or vendor, makes it easy to work across environments.
Asset Manager's API shares accurate asset knowledge with leading CMDB, vulnerability scanner, network modeling and simulation, SOAR, and ITSM solutions, improving data fidelity and operational intelligence across the environment. This strengthens existing security investments with fact-based, up-to-date intelligence.
Asset Manager gives a complete view of the network, enforcing device policies consistently and flagging policy violations, network vulnerabilities, and leak paths in real time. It identifies devices such as PCs, laptops, and smartphones that violate enterprise policy, locates ingress and egress points, and runs cross-zone leak detection to test connectivity and security between networks.
Normalize multi-vendor firewalls and run every policy from one data layer.
Identify and remove redundant, shadowed, and overly permissive rules.
AI-powered dashboards, predictive analytics, and intelligent reporting.
Fuse vulnerability data with network policy to reveal real exposure, simulate attack paths, and prioritize remediation.
One Platform for Policy Control
Start with the operational problem that matters most, then extend policy control across visibility, change, compliance, rule optimization, and AI-powered analytics.
Get a Custom EvaluationFrequently Asked Questions
Cybersecurity asset management involves identifying, monitoring, and protecting all assets within an organization’s IT environment. This includes hardware, virtual machines, cloud-based assets, and any other devices connected to the network. The goal is to ensure that all assets are identified, secure, compliant, and managed efficiently to reduce vulnerabilities and enhance overall cybersecurity posture.
FireMon Asset Manager can protect a wide range of assets, including but not limited to all L2 and L3 devices in on-premises and cloud environments, physical devices such as servers, workstations, and networking equipment, virtual machines, cloud-based assets, and network infrastructure components and IoT devices.
Asset management is crucial for cybersecurity because it provides visibility into all devices within an organization. This visibility helps identify and mitigate potential vulnerabilities, ensures compliance with security policies, and enhances incident response capabilities. Without effective asset management, it is challenging to protect critical assets, leading to increased risk of cyberattacks and data breaches.
Examples of cyber asset management include:
- Continuous monitoring and inventorying of all devices in on-premises and cloud environments.
- Automated discovery and identification of new devices and applications on the network.
- Configuration management to ensure all assets comply with security policies.
- Vulnerability scanning to identify and remediate security weaknesses.
- Reporting and analytics to provide insights into asset health and security posture.
These practices help maintain a secure and compliant IT environment, reducing the risk of cyber threats.
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Unmatched real-time cybersecurity asset management to discover the darkest corners of obscure infrastructure.