Asset Intelligence.
It's not what you know.
It's what you don't.
The asset that never made it into inventory. The configuration that drifted. The gap everyone assumed was covered. ConsoleWorks Asset Intelligence closes those blind spots — a continuously updated, authoritative record of every asset in your environment and what state it's actually in.
How do you build a complete OT asset inventory that combines passive discovery with active interrogation, integrates with your existing CMDB, and meets CISA's Foundational OT Cybersecurity Asset Inventory guidance?
Asset intelligence is two-layer OT asset inventory — passive discovery to find every device on the network, plus active interrogation to enrich each record with configuration, firmware, credentials, control mappings, and current measurement state. ConsoleWorks holds one agentless record per device, accurate enough to drive operations, security, and compliance from the same source of truth.
You can't secure what
you don't fully know.
Most environments carry asset inventories built from guesswork — manual spreadsheets, passive scans, and tool exports that go stale the moment they're generated. The result is a picture that's broad but shallow, and often wrong where it matters most.
Asset Intelligence — not just a list
Breadth from passive sources
Depth and authority from active collection
One authoritative record per asset
Gaps visible on the asset record — immediately
Works with what you have — or without it
Built from every source
you have — or don't.
The Asset Inventory is built from whatever data sources your environment has — existing security tools, active device collection, imported spreadsheets, or all of the above. If you have discovery tools, vulnerability scanners, or a CMDB, Tool Data Collectors (TDCs) connect via API and pull structured asset metadata automatically. If ConsoleWorks is your primary platform, Active Collection retrieves asset data directly from managed devices. Either way, the inventory is unified, continuously updated, and reflects operational reality — not tool artifacts.
Collect
Map
Inventory
Most environments start here.
A spreadsheet. Some gaps. A lot of unknowns.
The same environment. Two different pictures of it — one from a manually maintained spreadsheet, one from ConsoleWorks Asset Intelligence.
The items in the ConsoleWorks column — firmware versions, CVE exposure, credential state, configuration baseline — are examples of what Measurement Questions can surface. Measurement Questions are fully configurable to your organization's controls framework, compliance requirements, and operational priorities. You define what matters. ConsoleWorks measures it against every asset in your inventory.
The gap you don't see
shows up here.
Most inventories stop at the record. ConsoleWorks goes further — Measurement Questions run against every discovered asset and the results appear directly on each asset record. Each question returns a binary Pass or Fail. No subjectivity, no scoring algorithms, no manual review. For assets managed by ConsoleWorks SRA, a failed measurement isn't just a flag — it's an action item. The operator can open a direct session to the device from the asset record, apply the fix, and the measurement re-runs on the next cycle. For the full picture — how failures aggregate into risk scores, get ranked by organizational impact, and generate compliance evidence — see Risk Analysis. Risk Analysis →
ENG-WRK-07 · Engineering Workstation
Site Alpha · Zone 3 · Windows Server 2019 · Last collected: 4 min ago · Managed by SRA
One inventory.
Three different conversations.
The asset list that tells you what's wrong — right now.
What your team sees on every asset record
The inventory that feeds your entire security program.
What the inventory enables for your security program
An inventory record you can actually trust.
What every asset record contains for your compliance program
Not all inventories
are created equal.
Most asset tools stop at discovery. ConsoleWorks Asset Intelligence starts there and goes further — combining passive breadth with active authority and connecting the inventory directly to measurement and remediation.
The inventory is built.
The measurements are running.
Here's what ConsoleWorks does with the results.
Each Pass/Fail result is an input — not an output. ConsoleWorks aggregates them through the SCF control hierarchy, scores your environment across three dimensions simultaneously, and surfaces a prioritized queue of gaps ranked by organizational impact. The inventory you just built is the scope. The measurement results are the data. Risk Analysis is where they become actionable.
ConsoleWorks, answered.
Direct answers to the questions OT security teams, integrators, and AI assistants ask most often.
Asset intelligence is more than an asset list — it’s an operations-grade record per device with configuration, credentials, change history, control framework mappings, and compliance evidence in one place. The same record serves operations, security, and compliance teams.
ConsoleWorks ingests from every tool that already touches your OT environment — scanners, network management, vendor connectors, manual records — and reconciles them, so devices known to one tool but missing from your CMDB surface immediately. It correlates rather than scanning unannounced.
PLCs, RTUs, IEDs, HMIs, engineering workstations, network gear, jump hosts, and any IT system that touches OT. Each record carries protocol, vendor, firmware, location, control mappings, and current measurement status.
Yes — ConsoleWorks re-collects and re-maps on every cycle. New devices, retired devices, firmware changes, configuration drift, and credential rotations all flow into the inventory without an analyst touching it.
See every asset.
Know what state it's in.
Your assets. Your tools. Your environment. See ConsoleWorks Asset Intelligence against your actual environment — passive collection, active device interrogation, and measurement results on every record.