Cloud Asset Discovery
Discover and classify 100% of your cloud assets, including the ones your tools miss
Get a complete, continuously updated inventory of every asset running across AWS, Azure and Google Cloud. CyberProof discovers your cloud assets directly from the cloud providers, reconciles them against your security tools, and classifies each one as managed, unmanaged or suspicious. That lets security teams close coverage gaps, surface shadow IT and prioritize remediation based on business context.
Three Pillars of Cloud Asset Discovery
Discover Every Cloud Asset
Build a complete inventory across AWS, Azure and GCP, pulled directly from the cloud providers, which are your source of truth.
Classify by Security Coverage
See which assets are managed, unmanaged or suspicious based on the security tools and policies inspecting them.
Prioritize with Business Context
Use application, environment and owner tags to focus remediation on the cloud assets that matter most to the business.
You Can’t Protect Cloud Assets You Can’t See
Cloud estates change faster than traditional inventories can track
Development and DevOps teams continuously deploy applications that each consume dozens of cloud asset types, such as compute, containers, storage, load balancers and firewalls. Many are spun up and torn down within hours. CMDBs update periodically, security tools report only the assets they scan, and cloud-native inventories sit in isolation across accounts, subscriptions and projects. The result: no single source of truth, and blind spots that attackers can exploit.
- Stale CMDBs: Periodic updates can’t keep pace with ephemeral cloud resources. One global financial enterprise found its CMDB captured only an estimated 70% of its cloud assets.
- Partial tool views: Security tools report only the assets they scan, so they can’t serve as a complete asset inventory.
- Hidden coverage gaps: New virtual machines and container images go live without the scanning agents that should protect them.
- Shadow IT: Cloud accounts created outside central governance, sometimes on a corporate credit card, stay invisible to security.
- Manual reconciliation: Teams compare inventory reports and security-tool reports by hand, often in spreadsheets and market by market.
Know the Security State of Every Cloud Asset
Managed, unmanaged or suspicious, and why it matters:
CyberProof correlates the cloud provider’s inventory (the primary provider) with data from your security tools (secondary providers) and the policies inspecting each asset. Every cloud asset gets a clear security state:
- Managed: The cloud provider knows the asset, and at least one security tool or policy is actively inspecting it. Managed assets flow into exposure management for threat-informed prioritization.
- Unmanaged: The cloud provider knows the asset, but nothing is inspecting it. Either there’s a coverage gap (for example, a virtual machine missing its vulnerability-scanner agent) or no tool is assigned to that asset type at all.
- Suspicious: A security tool reports the asset, but the cloud provider doesn’t. These unknown assets can point to shadow IT, unregistered accounts, permission issues or misconfigurations, and they carry the greatest risk.
The goal: move unmanaged and suspicious assets into the managed category, and track progress against a target such as 95% or more of assets under active management.
How Leading Enterprises Manage Their Cloud Asset Estate
From periodic audits to continuous cloud asset management
Leading security teams treat cloud asset management as a continuous cycle, not a periodic audit. This builds the foundation for exposure management and threat-led defense.
CyberProof Cloud Asset Discovery
A continuously updated, security-first inventory of your cloud estate
CyberProof Cloud Asset Discovery, part of Cybersecurity Estate Management, gives security teams an authoritative view of every asset across their multi-cloud environment, plus the security context they need to act on it.
- Discover 100% of cloud assets: Ingest asset inventories directly from AWS, Azure and GCP across all accounts, subscriptions and projects, including all ~200 native Google Cloud asset types.
- Reconcile across sources: Correlate cloud-native inventories with vulnerability management, CSPM and other security tools to create a single source of truth.
- Classify by security coverage: Automatically categorize each asset as managed, unmanaged or suspicious.
- Verify security controls: Use policy-based checks to confirm tools such as vulnerability scanners cover every asset they should, and pinpoint exactly where they don’t.
- Add business context: Map assets to applications, environments and owners using cloud tags, and flag untagged assets that undermine governance.
- Keep pace with the cloud: New cloud services are added to the discovery model within 30 days of release.
How Cloud Asset Discovery Works
From read-only API connection to actionable cloud asset inventory
- Connect clouds and tools via API: Add cloud accounts and security tools with read-only access. There are no agents to deploy, and discovery can be up and running in about an hour.
- Collect metadata, not sensitive data: Only asset inventory and configuration metadata is collected. No PII or sensitive business data.
- Discover and visualize: Map every asset type and count across your clouds, with trend history showing how the estate changes over time.
- Classify and reconcile: Correlate primary (cloud provider) and secondary (security tool) data to give each asset a security state. Re-pull inventories on demand to rule out timing differences.
- Investigate and remediate: CyberProof experts help investigate suspicious assets, close coverage gaps and improve tagging hygiene, with findings routed into ticketing workflows.
- Feed exposure management: Managed assets flow into CyberProof Continuous Threat Exposure Management (CTEM) for threat-informed prioritization, laying the foundation for threat-led defense.
Business Outcomes from Cloud Asset Discovery
Turn cloud visibility into measurable risk reduction
- Eliminate blind spots: Identify unknown and shadow IT assets and bring them under management.
- Close coverage gaps: Make sure every asset that should be scanned is scanned, moving assets from unmanaged to managed.
- Shrink the attack surface: Decommission unused, orphaned and unauthorized resources, which also cuts cloud costs.
- Prioritize by business impact: Focus remediation on production and customer-facing applications first.
- Strengthen audit readiness: Keep an authoritative inventory that supports SOC 2, ISO 27001 and industry-specific requirements.
- Improve efficiency: Replace manual, spreadsheet-based reconciliation with automated classification.
Proof point (from the published case study, global financial enterprise):
- 100% of ~200 GCP asset types discovered
- 95% of assets brought under active management
- Fewer than 1% of assets identified as suspicious
Discover What’s Really Running in Your Cloud
Get an evidence-based view of your cloud estate across AWS, Azure and GCP. See how many assets you really have and which are managed, unmanaged or suspicious. Find out where your security tools have coverage gaps and which business-critical applications to prioritize first.
