Armis Centrix™ Unleashes Unique Capabilities to Address Attack Surface Management (ASM) Trends and Challenges

Groundbreaking Innovations and Strategic Acquisitions Empower Our Customers to See, Protect, and Manage Their Entire Attack Surface

From ASM Research to ASM Solutions

When Armis announced the findings of its Global Attack Surface Management (ASM) Research at the end of last year, it was clear that global organizations are facing an unprecedented level of cyber risk due to blind spots in their environment and that security teams are being overwhelmed with significant amounts of threat intelligence data, lacking actionable insights. A few critical findings from the study:

• Global respondents shared that 40% of assets connected to
  organizational networks are left unmonitored.
• Twenty-nine percent of respondents report that their cybersecurity team is overwhelmed by cyber threat information.
• Only 58% of the information gathered from threat intelligence sources is actionable, on average.

At Armis, we realize our responsibility in shaping our customer’s attack surface is to help them understand what they have, what risks to address first, and how to achieve actual security through efficient remediation workflows. With the results of the Global research in mind, our product and R&D teams developed additional ASM capabilities for Armis Centrix™, our cyber exposure management platform.

Our Unique Approach to ASM

Enhancing our platform, Armis has acquired CTCI, known for its AI-driven threat-hunting technology, and Silk Security, specializing in cyber risk prioritization and remediation. These acquisitions created the world’s most advanced early warning cyber intelligence system and provide a unified view for managing and automating remediation processes, setting new benchmarks in attack surface management. With the right tools to deliver visibility in all cloud and on-premises environments, across all platforms, and for all assets and devices, Armis lets you see the whole dynamic attack surface that needs to be protected in order to secure your environment.

Testimony to our success, Armis was named a Leader in the 2024 GigaOm Radar for Attack Surface Management (ASM) report.

The report calls Armis a “formidable player in the ASM landscape” and positions Armis as a leader for our high scores earned on “asset discovery, internal ASM, risk scoring, asset categorization, and flexibility.”

Armis ASM Capabilities

The attack surface is constantly changing as assets are added or removed and as attack methodologies evolve over time. Armis Centrix™ overcomes the issues of siloed solutions and enables teams to quickly identify and remediate gaps – either manually or via automated workflows. Armis lets you see the whole attack surface that needs to be protected in order to begin securing your environment. Here’s a short overview of the capabilities we have in place:

Discovery

Armis uses a unique multi-detection engine that includes both active and passive discovery techniques to build a complete network map, including connections and traffic flows to/from other assets, virtual and physical segments and external internet.

We eliminate blind spots and address the unmonitored assets reported by global organizations worldwide, so you can have an authoritative and detailed view of your attack surface – whether it’s Information Technology (IT), Operational Technology (OT), Internet of Things (IoT), medical devices, virtual, or cloud. The breadth, depth, and accuracy of the Armis asset inventory exceeds that of any other product on the market today.

When it comes to the data overload as reported in the ASM research, Armis Centrix™ ingests data from existing sources, including on premise, cloud services, code, and applications. We deduplicate and correlate all security findings to separate actionable intelligence from noise. Our customers benefit from a drastic reduction in findings volume through Machine Learning (ML) deduplication.

Classification and Prioritization

Finally, there’s a way to focus on immediate and actual risk, not on theoretical severity risk. Armis delivers integrated insights on internal asset risks and active exploits – all from a single platform. This is our response to the concern expressed by global organizations on lacking actionable insights.

Armis Centrix™ calculates a risk score for each asset based on vulnerabilities, behavior, asset profiles from our collective Asset Intelligence Engine, compensating controls, and its criticality to the business. We let you prioritize vulnerabilities and other security findings using asset context, security risk & exploitability.

Armis Centrix™ for Early Warning can even warn you before a vulnerability is announced, before an attack is launched and before your organization is impacted.

Prioritization of mitigation efforts by business criticality helps security, IT and operations teams focus their efforts on the most pressing risks that pose the biggest threat to the business. It also identifies fixes with the highest impact across the environment.

Remediation and Mitigation

Armis closes the traditional gap between security findings, asset ownership and actionable remediation, offering a holistic and prioritized approach to attack surface management.

We offer predictive ownership rules through AI to assign fix responsibilities. Armis also works with your security management systems—your SIEM, SOAR, ticketing systems, asset databases, etc.—to empower these systems, personnel and incident responders to leverage the rich information Armis provides.

The result is a significant reduction in time spent on identifying owners and assigning tickets, with a significantly reduced Mean Time to Remediation (MTTR).

Monitoring and Reporting

Armis Centrix™ tracks, monitors and demonstrates progress for both individuals tasks, as for overall risk activity and trends in the organization. We let you understand how your teams and the tools they are using are performing through consolidated dashboards, and measure the effectiveness of the discovery and remediation process.

Our Commitment

Our clients are at the heart of everything we do. We’ve worked tirelessly to deepen our relationships with existing customers and attract new ones, regularly conducting global research through Armis Labs and delivering meaningful products and features. All of this is part of our commitment to excel and to redefine how organizations protect their digital environments.

The Time Is Now

Threat actors will continue to exploit blind spots and data overload to execute today’s most impactful cyberattacks. It’s critical for organizations to modernize their ASM approach by leveraging the latest innovative technologies to enable teams with real-time, automated insights and actionable plans to help safeguard mission-critical assets from cyber threats. We are proud to say that our award-winning platform, Armis Centrix™, has been adopted by the world’s leading organizations, including 35 of the top Fortune 100 companies. Customers like United Airlines, the U.S. Postal Service, Ryanair, Mondelez, Reckitt and Flex trust Armis to help them secure their most critical environments.

To learn how Armis Centrix™ is helping organizations worldwide to support their Attack Surface Management processes, please download our ASM Solution Brief. Ready to see how Armis Centrix™ behaves in your environment? Request your Free Trial today!