Asset criticality indicates the importance of an asset to your organization's operations.
An asset is considered critical if its compromise causes severe consequences such as business interruption.
Risk Insights uses criticality information to calculate asset risk scores. Two assets with the same risk events and different criticality levels are not assigned the same risk scores and should therefore be managed differently.
When assigning criticality levels, Risk Insights considers significant profile tags that are derived from data collected by connected sources. Asset criticality levels are evaluated daily.
Connect to as many data sources as possible so that Risk Insights can obtain the profile tags required to determine asset criticality. For more information, see Configuring Data Sources.
The following table outlines the main asset criticality concepts.
Information |
Description |
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Criticality level |
Determined by significant profile tags and used to calculate asset risk scores
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Profile tag |
Extracted from data collected by connected data sources Profile tags that are considered significant are used to evaluate criticality levels. For more information, see Asset Profile Tags. |
You can access asset criticality information in the following locations:
Location |
Description |
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Asset lists |
Example: Attack Surface Discovery > Accounts > Domain accounts > Domain Account List Accounts marked with star icon are highly critical to your organization. Clicking the icon opens a window that contains asset criticality information. |
Asset details screen |
Clicking the name of any asset opens a details screen that includes the Asset Profile tab, which displays the following information:
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