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.
Complete Asset Visibility Across Hybrid Environments
If it's connected, kinetic8 finds it — regardless of where it lives.
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
Continuous Attack Surface Monitoring
Your attack surface changes every hour. Your monitoring should too.
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
Asset Inventory Reconciliation
Stop reconciling spreadsheets. Start operating from a single truth.
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