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What Are Assets & Networks?

Workstations & Servers

Assets are computer devices such as servers, workstations, and printers. During the setup process, we will ask you to review and confirm asset labels. It is important for Exabeam to understand the asset types within the organization - are they Domain Controllers, Exchange Servers, Database Servers or workstations? This adds further context to what Exabeam sees within the logs. For example, if a user performs interactive logons to an Exchange Server on a daily basis, the user is likely an Exchange Administrator. Exabeam automatically pulls in assets from the LDAP server and categorizes them as servers or workstations based on the OS property or the Organizational Units they belong to. In this step, we ask you to review whether the assets tagged by Exabeam are accurate. In addition to configuration of assets during setup, Exabeam also runs an ongoing classifier that classifies assets as workstations or servers based on their behavior.

Network Zones

Network zones are internal network locations defined by the organization rather than a physical place. Zones can be cities, business units, buildings, or even specific rooms. For example, "Atlanta" can refer to a network zone within an organization rather than the city itself (all according to an organization's preference). Administrators can upload information regarding network zones for their internal assets via CSV or add manually one at a time.

Asset Groups

Asset Groups are a collection of assets that perform the same function in the organization and need to be treated as a single entity from an anomaly detection perspective. An example of an asset group would be a collection of Exchange Servers. Grouping them this way is useful to our modeling processing because it allows us to treat an asset group as a single entity, reducing the amount of false positives that are generated when users connect to multiple servers within that group. As a concrete example, if a user regularly connects to email exchange server #1 then Exabeam builds a baseline that says this is their normal behavior. But exchange servers are often load-balanced, and if the user then connects to email exchange server #2 we can say that this is still normal behavior for them because the exchange servers are one Asset Group. Other examples of asset groups are SharePoint farms, or Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI).