1. A method comprising: discovering multiple devices in a computing system by a risk manager system; grouping the multiple devices into multiple security zones by the risk manager system; for each security zone, causing one or more devices in that security zone to provide information to the risk manager system identifying alerts and events associated with the one or more devices according to configuration data sent to the one or more devices by the risk manager system, wherein the configuration data defines the alerts and events to be provided by the one or more devices and include a management pack that defines data characterization and can be executed by one or more devices to translate the alerts and events into the information provided to the risk manager system, said management pack configured for each category with a unique configuration identifier for each type of data to be collected; storing the information, by the risk manager system, in association with unique identifier values, the unique identifier values identifying different types of information.