The Industrial Security Podcast Experience & Challenges Using Asset Inventory Tools [The Industrial Security Podcast]
Apr 21, 2025
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Anecdote: Device Counts in Nuclear Plants
- New nuclear plants host roughly 10,000 digital devices, an order of magnitude more than older plants with about 1,700 devices.
- Counting these devices manually by looking for digital indicators is impractical and shows the scale of the asset management challenge.
Asset Inventory Enables Risk Management
- Asset inventory is crucial to understand your attack surface and associated vulnerabilities.
- Use asset inventory to identify risk and mitigation priorities effectively.
Limitations of Network-Based Tools
- Many asset inventory tools rely on network traffic and cannot detect isolated or non-networked assets.
- Safety-critical devices often require manual inventory as they might be offline or air-gapped.