Continuous Asset Visibility Provides OT Asset Verification You Can Trust
Summary: Dragos describes how many organizations still track OT assets through manual, isolated processes such as Excel spreadsheets and Visio workflows built from purchase records and annual facility walkdowns. The company argues that continuous, automated collection produces a real-time asset inventory covering vendor, model, firmware version, communication relationships, and prioritized vulnerabilities, rather than a static list of purchased models.
Why it matters: A spreadsheet-based inventory is prone to missing rogue assets and is almost always out of date, so the security team can never be sure the list is accurate - and unlisted devices in an industrial environment are exactly the ones no one is watching.
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