Introduction to Inventories

Panaseer Inventories are collections of unique, resolved entities of various types. Using the Inventories, you can navigate your organization's assets, understand their security implications and make informed decisions to fortify your security posture.

This article gives you an overview of the Inventory types and how to search for and view details of each of your assets. 

The article covers:

• What is an inventory?
• Searching Inventories?
• Viewing Inventories
• Entity viewer tabs

What is an inventory?

The Panaseer platform creates Inventories based on the entities it finds within your data sources. It aggregates, deduplicates and sorts entities into a variety of types:

• Accounts
• Applications
• Databases
• Devices
• Groups
• Patch
• People
• Vulnerabilities

Using the Inventory links, you can explore each Inventory and the entities within it.

Search Inventories

The Inventory search feature allows you to discover entities of interest. It spans all Inventory types based on a range of common attributes. For more in-depth information, refer to the Inventory search article.

You can use the Inventory search to find Devices based on identifiers like MAC address, IP address or host name. Once you've found the entity you're looking for, you can access a consolidated overview of each Device entity. This provides key identifier information, data source details and other relevant data including the status of its installed controls.

Viewing Inventories

You can access Inventories either from the Panaseer Homepage or by selecting the Inventory icon in the menu bar.

There are three distinct views available:

• All Inventories: A comprehensive summary of all Inventories, displaying the total number of entities for each entity type.
• Inventory Overview: A filterable summary presenting high-level metrics about the entity population of the selected type.

  

• Viewer: A detailed view of the information available for individual entities, allowing you to explore in-depth data about each entity.

  

Entity viewer tabs

You can access a variety of tabs when viewing individual entities via the entity viewer. You'll find a summary tab displaying information such as:

• Entity identifiers (e.g., DNS)
• Contextual information about the entity (e.g., business unit)
• Information about related entities (e.g., applications hosted by a device entity)

Depending on the type of information relevant to the entity, you'll encounter a range of additional tabs, for example:

• Vulnerabilities: Lists the vulnerability detections associated with the Device.
• Applications: Displays a list of applications hosted by the Device.

Using these tabs, you can explore and gather insights about each individual entity, tailoring your analysis based on specific information you require.