You cannot govern what you cannot list.
Every framework starts with the same question — what do you have? — and most inventories answer it a quarter late. Assets appear in the CMDB when someone remembers; cloud accounts multiply; the laptop nobody enrolled never appears anywhere at all.
NIS2 names asset management explicitly, ISO 27001 opens its control set with the inventory, and CIS makes it controls one and two. TruSecure keeps the inventory honest: reconciled continuously against the systems that actually know what exists.
How it works
- Reconcile
Connectors read your CMDB, cloud accounts and endpoint management. The inventory is the reconciled intersection, refreshed continuously — not a spreadsheet with an owner who left.
- Classify
Assets carry criticality and data classification, so control scope follows importance: the crown-jewel systems get the tightest controls and the most frequent reviews.
- Flag
Unmanaged and unknown assets surface as gaps. The unenrolled laptop and the forgotten cloud account become visible — with a named owner and a decision routed to them.
- Prove
Inventory snapshots are captured on a schedule and approved, so “what was in scope when this control ran?” has a timestamped answer.
What the inventory looks like
- Known assets
- 1,847
- Unmanaged
- 23 · flagged
- Orphaned cloud
- 2 accounts · in review
- Citations
- NIS2 21(2)(i) · CIS 1–2
- Refreshed
- 15 min ago
Which regulations it maps to
| Framework | What it expects | Citation |
|---|---|---|
| NIS2 | Asset management as a risk-management measure | Art. 21(2)(i) |
| ISO 27001 | Inventory of information and other associated assets | A.5.9 |
| CIS v8 | Enterprise and software asset inventories, maintained | Controls 1–2 |
The asset-inventory, cloud and MDM connectors keep the picture current — TruSecure reconciles what your tooling already knows instead of asking you to maintain a second source of truth.
Scope is the foundation every other control stands on. When the inventory stays honest, control coverage, vulnerability posture and audit scope all inherit the same answer — and AI does the reconciling while your team decides what matters.
The monitoring loop
continuous · every 6 hours- 01
01
Connect
Read-only connectors into AWS, Azure, GCP, on-premise.
AWSAzureGCPon-prem - 02
02
Collect
AI pulls compliance evidence every 6 hours — not at audit time.
every 6 h - 03
03
Detect
Gaps and control drift flagged the moment they appear.
24/7 - 04
04
Remediate
Routine fixes closed automatically; the rest routed to you.
auto - 05
05
Approve
A named person decides. The approval is the record.
logged
The 80/20 advantage. AI handles the tedium — evidence, testing, gap analysis, routine fixes. Your team keeps the interesting 20%: strategic decisions, policy exceptions, risk acceptance.