Why an Automated Asset Catalog Matters
Modern infrastructure evolves daily — APIs, domains, certificates, SaaS accounts, employees, repos, cloud services, and internal applications are created and removed constantly. Manual spreadsheets fail because they:Cannot keep up with asset creation across teams
Miss shadow or ungoverned assets
Lack ownership, metadata, or up-to-date context
Become stale within days
How Snapsec Builds the Automated Asset Catalog
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Collect Assets from All Sources
AIM aggregates assets from ASM, scanners, certificates, Postman, Swagger, Censys, cloud providers, employee lists, repositories, and more.
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Normalize & Enrich Automatically
Every asset gets enriched with ownership, workspace, DNS data, geolocation, tech stack, history, and exposure status.
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Categorize by Asset Type
Assets are intelligently classified into subdomains, APIs, IPs, DNS records, certificates, applications, employees, technologies, and more.
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Maintain a Live Inventory
AIM detects changes, adds new assets, flags missing ones, and updates metadata continuously — no manual input required.
What Problems This Solves
Eliminate Inventory Chaos
Replace spreadsheets with a single, accurate system of record for all assets.
Reduce Security Blind Spots
Gain visibility into assets teams create without notifying security.
Improve IT & Security Operations
Provide every team a reliable, universal asset catalog for audits, scanning, governance, and risk analysis.
Key Benefits for Your Security Team
Unified Visibility
One pane showing all digital assets — internal, external, cloud, employee-linked, and application-based.
Accurate Ownership Mapping
Enrich assets with owners, workspaces, and departments automatically.
Continuous Sync
Adapters ensure your inventory updates itself without manual work.
Contextual Risk Awareness
Each asset carries auto-risk scoring, exposure status, associations, and vulnerability counts.
Example Asset Insights from AIM
An API with 880 discovered endpoints and no documented owner.
Subdomains fetched from certificate transparency logs mapped to no team.
IPs exposed publicly with unknown origin or expired certificates.
Employee accounts inactive for months but still technically “active.”
Applications running outdated tech stacks without visibility.
What Happens After Cataloging
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Enrich the Asset
AIM augments the asset with DNS, endpoints, association data, owner detection, and technology fingerprints.
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Classify Automatically
YAML-based classifiers tag assets by environment, exposure, risk, or policy logic.
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Detect Issues
AIM highlights vulnerabilities, misconfigurations, shadowed or exposed states, and unassigned ownership.
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Integrate with VM
Enriched assets flow into Snapsec VM for continuous scanning, ticketing, and SLA enforcement.
Next Steps
Explore Full AIM Capabilities
See how Snapsec AIM delivers complete visibility, enrichment, and governance for every digital asset.