The Problem
Out-of-the-box asset criticality rarely matches reality — the test box scores like a crown jewel while the actual payment server sits at a default rating. And because every downstream tool prioritizes against that score, one miscalibrated number quietly skews every list your team works from.
What It Does
Anubis adjusts Asset Criticality Rating (ACR) per tag — set a value, or increment and decrement by N — each change carrying a business justification. The result is the shared criticality currency the entire pack prioritizes against: calibrate once, and every hound's ranking gets smarter.
Key Capabilities
- Tag-driven ACR set / +N / -N — calibrate a whole business tier at once: set production to its true criticality, down-rate the lab, raise the payment segment.
- Business justification on every change — the "why" is recorded with the number, so a year later the audit answer is in the log.
- Feeds every prioritizer — attack-path ranking, crypto-migration order, AI risk, and identity criticality all consume the calibrated score.
- Gated writes — every ACR change is proposed, human-approved, and logged before it lands anywhere.
How It Works
Anubis operates on Tenable's ACR through tag-scoped adjustments — typically against business tiers your producer agents have already tagged (production, crown-jewel, lab, OT). All writes are proposed, human-approved, and logged with their justification.
Who It's For
Vulnerability management leads whose prioritization is only as good as the criticality under it; risk owners who know which assets actually matter; CISOs who want one defensible criticality story.
Proof Points
In a reference environment of 268 assets, Anubis's calibrated ACR is what defined the 67 crown-jewel targets (ACR ≥ 7) that Fenrir's 63 attack paths ranked against — and the criticality weighting behind Heimdall's migration roadmap. Calibration quality depends on the business-tier tagging it builds on.
Works Better With
Anubis consumes tags from every producer — Janus, Mimir, Pythia, Cerberus, Charon — and powers every correlator: Fenrir, Heimdall, Pythia, and On the Scent all rank against its calibrated score.
Why It's Different
- One calibration re-prioritizes the whole pack — Fenrir's paths, Heimdall's migration order, Pythia's AI risk, and Janus's identity ranking all shift together.
- A currency, not a report — ACR is the number every agent already speaks; Anubis just makes it true.
- Justified, not arbitrary — every adjustment records the business reason, so audits get answers.