Armis Centrix™ Named a Leader in the 2024 GigaOm Radar for Continuous Vulnerability Management

We are extremely proud to share that Armis Centrix™ has been named a Leader in the 2024 GigaOm Radar for Continuous Vulnerability Management (CVM), achieving the highest overall score in the report’s Key Features Comparison and highest overall placement in the Innovation and Platform Play quadrant.

Why Armis is Positioned as a Leader

According to the report, Armis’ placement in the Radar as a Leader reflects strong capabilities for automation of workflows and risk-based assessment where “users can expect efficient, prioritized vulnerability management aligned with their specific business needs.”

Armis Centrix™ attained the highest overall score of all vendors in the Key Features Comparison, 4.4 of 5.

This recognition by GigaOm is a testament to the advances Armis has made in helping customers manage their transformation from legacy vulnerability management programs through automated prioritization and risk contextualization, and, crucially, operationalization of the remediation lifecycle as part of a cohesive, collaborative process with remediation owners.

The report notes that the Armis Centrix™ platform “excels in scenarios requiring comprehensive risk assessment and prioritization, especially in industries with stringent regulatory compliance needs such as finance, healthcare, and critical infrastructure. Additionally, Armis Centrix is effective for businesses seeking to automate and streamline their vulnerability management workflows across different teams and departments.”

Armis Centrix™ earned the highest score, 5 stars, in 6 categories: Automation of Workflows, Risk-based Assessment, Customizable Risk Scoring, Network-based Vulnerability Scanning, Scalability, and Flexibility. Armis Centrix™ also earned high marks in additional criteria such as Integrations, Application Vulnerability Assessment, and IaC Vulnerability & Misconfiguration Assessment, and Ease of Use.

Digging deeper on the specific features where Armis Centrix™ outperforms, the report noted:

• Risk-based Assessment and Automation of Workflows: The platform’s automation of workflows and risk-based assessment both scored 5/5 for “offering end-to-end automation capabilities and incorporating a wide range of contextual factors for accurate risk evaluation.”
• Customizable Risk Scoring:  Armis’ dynamic scoring that adapts to changing contexts “allows organizations to tailor the platform to their unique risk landscape”
• Scalability: “Serving 40% of Fortune 100 companies”, and scaling to support tens of millions of assets per customer earned a score of 5/5.
• Flexibility: Armis also scored 5/5 for flexibility which GigaOm views as “crucial for organizations to tailor their vulnerability management approach to their unique infrastructure, workflows, and security requirements”.
• Network-based Vulnerability Scanning: For this feature, which the report notes is “crucial for maintaining a comprehensive view of an organization’s attack surface and detecting vulnerabilities that could be exploited by malicious actors”, Armis attained a score of 5/5.

GigaOm Analyst Chris Ray also highlights that Armis’ flexibility means that “the solution can adapt to various use cases through its integration-based approach. This versatility allows Armis Centrix™ to cater to diverse organizational needs, whether cloud-centric, endpoint-focused, or a combination of environments.”

The Need for a New Approach to VM is “Critical”

The recognition comes at a point when the market needs are rapidly evolving, according to GigaOm, and “the need for comprehensive, intelligent vulnerability management solutions has never been more critical”. This Radar report provides security leaders with much-needed clarity and guidance on assessing and evaluating which solutions can help them navigate the emerging requirements beyond traditional vulnerability management to include the widespread adoption of public cloud resources and DevOps practices in order to proactively reduce risk to their organizations.

At Armis, we agree that the vulnerability management market is at an inflection point. Approaches that were designed for an era before digital transformation are no longer fit for purpose.

Instead, vulnerability management teams now need to function as an integral component of comprehensive attack surface management programs.  Rather than just report on the number of vulnerabilities in the environment, vulnerability management teams are now focused on prioritizing exposure risks based on criticality and business impact, and operationalizing proactive risk reduction, in collaboration with remediation teams.

Building on Armis’ integration of comprehensive asset visibility with security tool alert consolidation and threat intelligence on active exploits, security teams can more effectively contextualize findings, automate prioritization, and direct the right remediation teams to address actual risk to the organization.

Understanding the GigaOm Radar for Continuous Vulnerability Management

The GigaOm Radar for Continuous Vulnerability Management assesses vendors providing CVM functionality (including asset discovery and tracking, policy compliance reporting, issue tracking and management, basic risk profiling and prioritization, and remediation recommendations) as their key product capabilities along with associated business criteria, such as flexibility, cost, ease-of-use, and scalability.

The GigaOm Radar plots vendor solutions across a series of concentric rings with those set closer to the center judged to be of higher overall value. The chart characterizes each vendor on two axes—balancing Maturity versus Innovation and Feature Play versus Platform Play—while providing an arrowhead that projects each solution’s evolution over the coming 12 to 18 months.

Armis Centrix™ is positioned as a Leader in the Innovation/Platform Play quadrant.

The report points out that as organizations expand their digital footprints across cloud, on-premises, and hybrid infrastructures: “solutions are no longer just about identifying vulnerabilities; they’re about prioritizing them based on real-world risk to the organization. “This approach incorporates factors such as threat intelligence, asset criticality, and exploitability to help organizations focus their remediation efforts where they matter most.”

To read GigaOm’s in-depth analysis, we invite you to download a complimentary copy of the 2024 GigaOm Radar for Continuous Vulnerability Management.