“You cannot protect what you cannot see”: vulnerability management, patch planning, anomaly detection and compliance reports all depend on an accurate inventory. In OT the inventory is usually built through passive network monitoring or by safely collecting existing data from the control system, because blind active scanning is risky.
What is OT Asset Inventory?
An OT asset inventory is the current list of all devices in a control system (PLCs, HMIs, switches, servers…) with hardware, software, firmware and configuration details.
