Computer application software for computers in industrial manufacturing facilities, namely, software for monitoring against cyber security threats; software for addressing cyber security plans, namely, asset inventory, configuration baseline, and change control management and monitoring of industrial control systems and automation systems; software for inventorying control system assets namely customizable metadata fields for grouping assets by system, criticality, location, business unit, and company; software for documenting the operational and security configuration of assets namely historical versioning for compliance or disaster recovery, and for configuring and applying configuration policies to maintain security or operational standards to minimize risk and maximize reliability of industrial control systems and automation systems; software for the detection of changes to inventory, asset configuration, logical and graphical files; software for determining configuration item risk and for triggering appropriate workflows for operations, compliance, alerting and incident response in industrial control systems and automation systems; software for pre-defined workflows for security operations, namely, patch assessment, change testing, change implementation, configuration policy definition, asset disposal, and review/approval processes; software for automatically initiating workflows based on configuration parameters to reduce personnel requirements for managing configuration processes; software for generating configurable security and compliance reports consisting of inventory, configuration details, change history, and workflow documentation