kinetic8
15 Real-World Use Cases

Security intelligence, not just inventory

kinetic8 is the intelligence layer your security stack has been missing — connecting fragmented tools, adding context to every asset, and enabling faster, smarter decisions across every security function.

Connects fragmented tools
180+ pre-built adapters, one canonical record
Adds context to assets
Criticality, exposure, ownership, relationships
Enables smarter decisions
From board reporting to incident response
Visibility01

Complete Asset Visibility Across Hybrid Environments

If it's connected, kinetic8 finds it — regardless of where it lives.

kinetic8AGENTIC24,891assets unifiedCloudAWS · Azure · GCPEDRCrowdStrike · S1SIEMSplunk · SentinelIAMOkta · Active Dir.CMDBServiceNowOT/ICSDragos · Claroty180+ adapters · 40+ categories

Modern enterprise environments span dozens of boundaries: cloud workloads in AWS, Azure, and GCP; on-premises infrastructure managed through legacy CMDBs; SaaS platforms that bypass IT entirely; contractor devices accessing corporate resources; OT and ICS systems that rarely appear in security tooling. Each boundary represents a potential blind spot, and blind spots are where attackers operate.

kinetic8 eliminates the visibility gap by continuously ingesting data from every source — not through a single scheduled scan, but through real-time integration with 180+ pre-built adapters across 40+ categories. The platform automatically correlates assets from every source using five key types (email, serial number, MAC address, hostname, and IP), producing a single canonical record per asset that reflects reality, not the limitations of any individual tool. On average, organizations discover 12–18% more assets than their previous best count within the first week of deployment.

  • Discovers all assets across cloud, on-premises, SaaS, endpoints, OT/ICS, and contractor environments in a single unified inventory
  • Identifies shadow IT and unmanaged assets that never appear in CMDB, MDM, or EDR — the exact assets attackers target first
  • Covers 65+ asset types: devices, users, cloud resources, containers, certificates, virtual machines, and more
  • Continuous ingestion with configurable polling intervals ensures the inventory reflects the current state, not last week's snapshot
  • Eliminates departmental silos — security, IT, and compliance teams all work from the same authoritative asset record
  • Average organizations discover 3,200+ previously unknown assets within the first 7 days of deployment
3,200+
Shadow assets discovered (avg. week 1)
65+
Asset types covered
<30m
Time to first asset from any integration
Monitoring02

Continuous Attack Surface Monitoring

Your attack surface changes every hour. Your monitoring should too.

403020100MonTueWedThuFriSatSunALERTALERTLIVEExposure Events2 alertsthis week<5 mindetection lag100%coverage

Point-in-time security assessments and quarterly vulnerability scans create a dangerous illusion of control. Between scans, new assets are spun up, configurations drift, software is deployed, and exposures are introduced. By the time a scheduled scan catches them, an attacker may have already used them. Continuous monitoring is the only credible response to a continuously changing attack surface.

kinetic8 monitors every asset continuously — not just for vulnerabilities, but for changes in configuration, exposure, and relationship. New internet-facing services are flagged the moment they appear. Configuration changes that introduce risk — an S3 bucket going from private to public, a firewall rule opening an unintended port, an IAM role gaining excessive permissions — are detected and alerted within minutes, not months.

  • Real-time detection of newly exposed services: open ports, public cloud storage, externally accessible APIs, and misconfigured endpoints
  • Configuration change tracking that catches drift the moment it happens, across cloud and on-premises environments
  • Automated alerting through Slack, Teams, email, and ITSM integrations when exposure posture changes
  • Asset relationship monitoring to detect lateral movement paths as they emerge — not after they've been exploited
  • Historical change tracking with full audit trail, enabling forensic investigation of when and how an exposure was introduced
  • Configurable alert thresholds and suppression rules to reduce noise while maintaining signal fidelity
<5 min
Detection lag for new exposures
24/7
Continuous monitoring coverage
100%
Asset change visibility
Data Integrity03

Asset Inventory Reconciliation

Stop reconciling spreadsheets. Start operating from a single truth.

EDRlaptop-al • 192.168.1.4laptop-al-2 • 10.0.0.12srv-prod-01mobile-johnCMDBlaptop-alex • 10.0.0.12server-prod-1mobile-jsmithCloud192.168.1.4 vm-devsrv-prod-01 • t3.largeunknown-vm-03DedupEngineUnifiedlaptop-alex✓ reconciledsrv-prod-01✓ reconciledmobile-jsmith✓ reconciledReconciliation Result847raw records312unique assets94%conflict resolved

The typical enterprise security stack maintains asset records in four to eight separate systems — an EDR platform, a CMDB, an MDM solution, a cloud asset inventory, an identity provider, a vulnerability scanner, and more. Each system sees part of the picture and maintains its own data model, naming conventions, and update cadence. The result is a fragmented, contradictory, and perpetually stale view of the environment that consumes analyst time and produces unreliable metrics.

kinetic8 solves this with a correlation engine that ingests from all sources simultaneously and resolves conflicts using a trust-weighted hierarchy. Each source is assigned a confidence level for each attribute category: an MDM solution is more trusted for hardware specifications than a CMDB; an identity provider is more trusted for user attributes than an endpoint agent. The result is a single canonical record per asset that preserves the provenance of every attribute — so when an auditor asks 'how do you know this device has MFA enabled?', the answer is specific, sourced, and auditable.

  • Multi-source correlation using five key types in order of reliability: email address, serial number, MAC address, hostname, and IP address
  • Trust-weighted deduplication: when sources disagree, the most reliable source for that attribute wins — with full explainability
  • Source provenance preserved per-attribute, enabling comparison across tools and full audit traceability
  • Automated detection of orphaned records: assets that appear in one source but not others, signaling stale data or coverage gaps
  • Conflict resolution logging: every attribute override is recorded, with the source, timestamp, and reason for the resolution
  • Eliminates the 2–3 days per week that security teams typically spend manually reconciling tool outputs
94%
Conflict resolution rate
1
Canonical record per asset
5
Correlation key types for deduplication
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