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Use asset categories to better monitor your Digital Footprint

Mark Glinski
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    When you view and validate your Digital Footprint, you can check asset categories for immediate context to help you understand how assets are connected to your organization. 

    For example, you see at a glance that an asset is in a vendor's cloud or content delivery network. With this information you can make quick decisions about how to tag, prioritize, or assign the asset for further investigation or issue remediation. Asset categories also give you a better idea of your overall attack surface.

    View asset categories

    You can only view categories for assets in your organization's Scorecard. 

    1. Select Digital Footprint in your Scorecard.
    2. Select Domains. 
      Note: We currently do not display asset categories for Digital Footprints with more than 100,000 IPs.
    3. See the Asset Category column in the table.
    Tip: If you see multiple categories, simplify your view by filtering on a specific category. See the table below for all available categories.

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    Asset category definitions and sources

    We categorize assets based on two sources:

    Note: Not every individual asset belongs to a category.

    See all current categories in the following table

    Category Description Assigned by
    Cloud IP

    This IP belongs to a cloud provider.

    Issue findings do not impact the score for the attributed organization.

    		 SecurityScorecard
    Exit IP

    The attributed organization uses this IP for exiting its guest networks, and uses a specific method to partition it behind a firewall.

    Its issue findings do not affect their score.

    		 SecurityScorecard
    Guest network IP

    This IP is a guest device on the attributed organization's wireless network and isolated from their critical infrastructure.

    Findings for the following issue types do not impact the score:

    • Outdated Web Browser Observed
    • Outdated OS
    • Browser Average Age Indicates Older Versions
    		 Attributed organization
    Honeypot domain

    The attributed organization has isolated this asset as a honeypot from critical infrastructure and uses it for detecting or preventing attempts at unauthorized access.

    Its issue findings do not affect the organization’s score.

    		 SecurityScorecard
    Honeypot IP

    The attributed organization has isolated this asset as a honeypot from critical infrastructure and uses it for detecting or preventing attempts at unauthorized access.

    Its issue findings do not affect the organization’s score.

    		 SecurityScorecard
    Hosting IP

    This IP is part of a hosting service.

    Its issue findings do not affect the score for the attributed organization.

    		 SecurityScorecard
    IP on CDN

    This IP is on a content delivery network (CDN).

    Its issue findings do not affect the score for the attributed organization.

    		 SecurityScorecard
    IP on VPN

    This IP is on a virtual private network.

    Its issue findings do not affect the score for the attributed organization.

    		 SecurityScorecard
    Malicious IP This IP has been associated with malicious activity. SecurityScorecard
    Other

    The attributed organization categorized this as IP as Other when managing its Digital Footprint. 

    Our Support team determines the score impact

    		 Attributed organization

    Parked domain

    		 This domain resolves to a third-party parking service, such as GoDaddy. Its issue findings in the Application Security factor do not affect the score for the attributed organization. Attributed organization
    Parked IP This IP resolves to a third-party parking service, such as GoDaddy. Its issue findings do not affect the score for the attributed organization. Attributed organization
    Residential IP This IP belongs to a private residence. SecurityScorecard
    SaaS IP

    This IP is part of a software-as-a service (SaaS) application.

    Its issue findings do not affect the score for the attributed organization.

    		 SecurityScorecard
    Shared IP

    This IP is part of shared infrastructure and does not belong to the attributed organization.

    Its issue findings do not affect the score for the attributed organization.

    		 SecurityScorecard
    Tenant IP

    The attributed organization does not host or manage this IP or CIDR range. It belongs to a customer of theirs.

    It belongs to a customer of theirs, so its issue findings do not affect their score.

    		 Attributed organization
    Test network IP The attributed organization uses this network for testing, so some issue findings may be false positives. Its issue findings are removed from the attributed organization's Scorecard. SecurityScorecard
    Third-party IP This IP belongs to a third-party vendor of the attributed organization and does not affect its score. SecurityScorecard
    VPN IaaS drop point

    This IP is on a virtual private network as part of an infrastructure-as-a-service offering.

    Its issue findings do not affect the score for the attributed organization.

    		 SecurityScorecard

     

     

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