About assets

Assets are network devices registered in KUMA. Assets generate network traffic when they send and receive data. The KUMA program can be configured to track this activity and create baseline events with a clear indication of where the traffic is coming from and where it is going. The event can contain source and destination IP addresses, as well as DNS names. If you register an asset with certain parameters (for example, a specific IP address), this asset is linked to all events that contain this IP address in any of its parameters.

Assets can be divided into logical groups. This helps keep your network structure transparent and gives you additional ways to work with correlation rules. When an event linked to an asset is processed, the category of this asset is also taken into consideration. For example, if you assign high severity to a certain category of assets, the base events involving these assets will trigger the creation of correlation events with higher severity. This in turn cascades into higher severity alerts and, therefore, a more rapid response to such an alert.

It is recommended to register network assets in KUMA because their use makes it possible to formulate clear and versatile correlation rules for much more efficient analysis of events.

Asset management in KUMA is described in this section.