Patent ID: 11882144
Assignee: TENABLE, INC.
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H  G | IPC G  H

Claim 10:
11. A management system for asset-centric management, comprising:
a memory; and
at least one processor coupled to the memory and configured to:
receive, at a management system, information that characterizes one or more attributes of one or more assets in communication with a managed network;
load a criticality rules table that includes at least two rules, each of the at least two rules mapping at least one attribute of the one or more attributes to a corresponding criticality score,
wherein the corresponding criticality scores each represent an importance of an asset to the managed network;
update the criticality rules table based on one or more predicted criticality scores that are generated by machine learning; and
assign one or more criticality scores to the one or more assets based on (i) the one or more attributes of one or more assets, and (ii) the criticality rules table,
wherein the assigning for a given asset includes:
determining that the given asset is local with respect to a firewall of the managed network,
determining a given priority of a device type of the given asset,

wherein, when the given priority is above a threshold priority, a first criticality score is assigned to the given asset in accordance with a first rule based on the device type, and
wherein, when the given priority is not above the threshold priority, the assigning assigns a second criticality score to the given asset in accordance with a second rule based on one or more device capabilities of the given asset.