Continuous inventory of every dependency, image, AI model, and MCP server across the estate.
Asset discovery, in a software-supply-chain context, is the process of continuously finding and cataloguing everything your organisation ships or depends on — open-source packages, container images, AI/ML models, public APIs, MCP servers, internal libraries, and the services that host all of the above.
It is the unglamorous but foundational layer that everything else — vulnerability management, licensing, compliance, incident response — sits on top of. The old principle applies: you cannot secure what you do not know you have.
Modern asset discovery crosses the whole software stack, not just package manifests:
Most organisations think they know what they ship. Then a Log4Shell-class incident hits and the actual exercise — "where are we running a vulnerable version of X?" — takes days, because the inventory was spreadsheets and tribal memory.
Continuous asset discovery turns that question into a single query. It is also the prerequisite for every regulator-facing artifact: SBOMs, VEX, attestation packs, third-party risk answers, and responses to EU CRA, US EO 14028, FDA 524B, and DORA obligations.
When the next CVE-of-the-week hits, you answer "are we exposed?" in one query, not a week of repo-hunting.
AI models, MCP servers, and unofficial internal libraries are just as discoverable as npm packages.
SBOMs, AI-BOMs, and attestations come from the same inventory that powers operational security.
Instead of a 6-week code audit, you hand over a live inventory and let the buyer query it.
A GPL library introduced by a transitive dependency is visible the moment it lands in a repo, not after the release ships.
Safeguard's discovery layer spans every surface an organisation ships: code repos, container registries, AI model stores, API gateways, and MCP server fleets — all unified into one queryable inventory. Every downstream capability (policy, reachability, compliance) reads from that single source of truth. See the full asset discovery use case for the end-to-end flow.
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