Your vulnerability scanner, EDR tool, Active Directory, and SIEM each maintain their own inventory. When these inventories don't match, you have gaps. Systems missing from your EDR aren't monitored. Devices not in your scanner aren't patched. The risk is real.
When a device is first deployed, you know the configuration. It's compliant with your baseline. But over time, drift happens. Standards change. Tools get updated. Applications evolve. Exceptions pile up.
Workstations live for 4 years on average. Servers can run for a decade. The longer an asset exists, the more likely it is to drift from your intended state. Missing EDR agents, skipped vulnerability scans, stopped log forwarding—these gaps accumulate silently.
Hardware and software asset inventories are the first two CIS Controls for a reason. Without accurate inventories, every other security control is built on a shaky foundation.
Systems not in your vulnerability scanner aren't being patched. Devices without EDR agents aren't monitored.
Current state diverges from desired state as systems age and standards evolve.
Each tool maintains its own inventory. Reconciling them manually is slow and error-prone.
Each tool has strengths and weaknesses. Active Directory knows about domain-joined machines. Vulnerability scanners know about scanned subnets. EDR tools know where agents are installed. SIEM platforms know where logs are coming from.
By comparing inventories across these tools, you identify the gaps. Which critical servers aren't sending logs? Which workstations are missing EDR? Which subnets haven't been scanned? This is how you find your blind spots.
Domain-joined servers and workstations with details on OS, organizational unit, and last logon.
Blind spot: Non-domain systems, decommissioned but not removed objects.
Assets within scanned subnets along with vulnerabilities, patch levels, and service information.
Blind spot: Unscanned networks, mobile devices, air-gapped systems.
Systems where agents are installed and actively reporting back threat telemetry.
Blind spot: Systems where agents failed to install, stopped reporting, or were never deployed.
Assets configured to send logs and actively forwarding security event data.
Blind spot: Systems with misconfigured forwarding, stopped services, or intentionally excluded sources.
When you overlay these inventories, the gaps become obvious. A server in Active Directory but missing from your vulnerability scanner? That's unscanned and unpatched. A workstation in AD but not in your EDR tool? That's unmonitored and unprotected.
Result: Hours wasted every week. Error-prone. Stale data. Not sustainable.
Result: Continuous visibility. Accurate data. Automatic remediation workflows.
Platforms like Clockspring let you connect your asset inventories and automate gap discovery. No months of custom development. No fragile scripts that break when APIs change.
Build inventory comparison workflows without writing code—connect APIs, correlate data, and identify gaps
Run gap analysis daily or weekly to catch drift as it happens instead of months later
Generate tickets for remediation, routed to the right team, with duplicate detection built in
Let us show you how to connect your asset inventories and automate gap discovery. See exactly where your visibility is incomplete and how to fix it.
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