AUTOMATED GENERATION OF AN INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY ASSET ONTOLOGY

A method includes obtaining information regarding a plurality of information technology assets in use across an enterprise system, identifying dependencies between the information technology assets in use across the enterprise system, and generating an information technology asset ontology comprising a knowledge graph with nodes representing the information technology assets and edges between the nodes representing dependencies between the information technology assets. The method also includes monitoring the information technology assets of the enterprise system to detect one or more events and, responsive to detecting a given one of the one or more events, utilizing the information technology asset ontology to identify one or more of the information technology assets of the enterprise system affected by the given event. The method further comprises applying one or more remedial measures to at least a given one of the identified information technology assets of the enterprise system affected by the given event.