ASSET INVENTORY RECONCILIATION SERVICES FOR USE IN ASSET MANAGEMENT ARCHITECTURES

• US 20190332572A1
• Filed: 05/07/2019
• Published: 10/31/2019
• Est. Priority Date: 03/15/2013
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Tripwire Incorporated (Belden Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Tripwire Incorporated (Belden Inc.)
• Inventors: Lerner, Aaron, Montville, Adam
• Granted Patent: US 11,940,970 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/23 Updating
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/24564 Applying rules; Deductive queries
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/25 Integrating or interfacing systems involving database management systems
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/252 between a Database Management System and a front-end application
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/273 Asynchronous replication or reconciliation

Abstract

Disclosed below are representative embodiments of methods, apparatus, and systems for managing, monitoring, controlling, and/or classifying assets in an information technology (“IT”) environment. Certain embodiments leverage bath services oriented architecture concepts and event mechanisms to create a platform with which additional controls can easily integrate.

Claims

1. A system, comprising:

one or more processors; and

one or more computer-readable storage media storing computer-executable instructions, the computer-executable instructions including,

instructions for implementing an asset discovery handler component, the asset discovery handler component being configured to receive asset information from an asset collector component, and to normalize the asset information to a common format, the asset information describing an asset in an IT environment; and

instructions for implementing an asset reconciliation component, the asset reconciliation component being configured to apply defined reconciliation rules to determine whether a newly discovered asset is a new asset or one of the assets that the system already manages.

2. The system of claim 1, wherein the asset information includes an IP address and a hostname for the asset.

3. The system of claim 1, wherein the assets that the system already manages are stored in an asset inventory, and wherein the asset inventory provides asset information across multiple tools in the system.

4. The system of claim 3, wherein the asset inventory provides information to a reporting tool that generates reports describing security controls in the IT environment.

5. The system of claim 3, wherein the asset inventory further stores tag data associated with the assets in the asset inventory.