Root asset candidates are neighboring root assets detected by Attaxion during a verified root asset scan and may potentially belong to your organization.
Attaxion continuously scans verified root assets for dependent assets and often identifies neighboring root assets that may also belong to your organization in the process. These assets are listed as root asset candidates within the platform.
To start managing root asset candidates, click Management from the menu on the left and go to the Root Asset Candidates tab.
On the table, you can see the candidate’s name and asset type, as well as the root asset from which the candidate was detected and any tag specified for it.
There is also a Confidence column that indicates Attaxion’s level of certainty about the association between an identified candidate root asset and its corresponding verified root asset, helping you decide whether to include or exclude the candidate from scanning.
You may want to learn more about the root asset candidate. To do this, click any candidate name to open the asset candidate details. You can see the discovery methods Attaxion used and the path that led it to the candidate.
Approving Root Asset Candidates
When you’re ready to select or exclude candidates, go to the Actions column of the Root Asset Candidates window.
To select a root asset candidate, click the Approve button and choose I’m sure, approve. This action will designate the candidate as one of your root assets. Note that you will still need to verify that this new root asset really belongs to your organization using the standard asset verification process described here.
If, for some reason, you want to remove the newly approved root asset, you can learn how to remove a root asset from Attaxion here.
Declining Root Asset Candidates
To exclude a root asset candidate, click the Decline button and choose I’m sure, decline. This action will remove the asset from the root asset candidate list and place it in the Archived Assets tab.
