From Industry Benchmarks to Advanced Cyber Insights: How to Make the Most Out of the Armis Asset Intelligence Engine

At the very core of what we do here at Armis, is a proprietary AI-powered Asset Intelligence Engine monitoring billions of assets world-wide in order to identify cyber risk patterns and behaviors. It is a giant, crowdsourced, cloud-based knowledge base—the largest in the world, tracking over 5 billion assets—and growing. It delivers significant insights covering over 25,000 locations, 165 countries, and 17 industries.

Each profile in our Asset Intelligence Engine includes unique device information and expected behaviors such as how often each asset communicates with other devices, over what protocols, how much data is typically transmitted, whether the asset is usually stationary, what software runs on each asset, etc. This information is recorded and stored so that we have a history of everything that the asset does.

This enormous data lake powers Armis Centrix™, our cyber exposure management platform, with unique, actionable cyber intelligence to detect and address real-time threats across the entire attack surface:

• Context: with the Asset Intelligence Engine, Armis Centrix™ understands not only what the asset is and what it is doing, but what it should be doing. This is because we have situational awareness of each asset in its environment. After all, a tablet is not just a tablet. It may be used to check people in at an office lobby, to drive a video conferencing solution in a boardroom, or run a production line, or used by a doctor in an emergency room. Context is critical to know the correct behavioral profile of an asset.
• Threat Detection: Armis Centrix™ cloud-based threat detection engine uses machine learning and artificial intelligence to detect when a device is operating outside of its normal “known good” baseline. The Asset Intelligence Engine compares the profiles of known assets with your assets’ behavior. If anything should fall outside of acceptable tolerances we’ll flag and/or quarantine assets that are not acting how they should be.

In this blog we’ll explore a few additional ways in which Armis customers can leverage the power of the world’s largest aggregated asset intelligence dataset.

Industry Benchmarking

Armis Industry Benchmarks offers an opportunity to elevate your company’s performance by learning from the successes and strategies of your peers and competitors. Right from the Armis Centrix™ interface and using intuitive dashlets, we allow you to see what your industry peers are doing right and identify your areas for improvement:

The benchmarking feature is available in eligible dashlets, which enable you to see how your assets compare against a vast collection of assets from your industry. The “Show Benchmarks” command is in the three-dots menu.

A few common use cases include:

• End-of-life operating systems: using bar charts based on device-OS versions, to monitor and compare how your organization is performing in terms of technical debt reduction.
• Aggregated risks: using pivot tables and applying a calculation for average risks. This view helps you understand how your average risk per device type compares to your peer groups.

Armis Industry Benchmarks shows you exactly where efficiencies can be made. Learn which cost-saving measures are working and implement these best practices to boost your bottom line. This isn’t just about numbers; it’s about uncovering actionable insights that can transform your business operations.

Armis Intelligence Center

Governments and global enterprises have often struggled to obtain accurate data-driven insights into increasingly complex global IT and OT asset infrastructures.

Understanding the most consequential cyber risks and exposure at an asset level, while being able to answer questions about macro global trends and determine accurate benchmarks has become a strategic imperative.

The Armis Intelligence Center provides breakthrough analytical insights into the world’s largest aggregated asset intelligence dataset, covering roughly 20% of the devices connected to global networks. Through a dedicated web portal and API connections, it delivers significant insights and allows for reports over various periods of time to support everything from business intelligence and investment strategies to cyber intelligence and threat hunting. Typical users include:

• Critical Infrastructure Researchers and Analysts
• Consulting companies in need of intelligence to include in their Pitch Decks or analysis reports
• Military and Government Agencies responsible for protecting their country, state, city or municipality
• Cyber Insurance Providers who use the data for underwriting purposes

For example:

• The market share of the product per industry, compared to other products of the same type (e.g. mobile phone)
• The market share evolution over time
• The new product’s market share compared to the same manufacturer’s entire product line

Another use case might be the investigation of a major CVE or exploit. Every once in a while, a new CVE is identified that causes a lot of fear and confusion. With the Armis Intelligence Center, it becomes possible to help assessing the risk the CVE entails, by providing clear and detailed answers such as:

• The percentage of devices in an industry that are affected by the CVE
• The OS, manufacturers, and/ or models affected by the CVE
• If this CVE affects a certain type or category of machines at al (e.g. MRI machines)

Summary

Continuous asset intelligence is fundamental to maintaining an effective cybersecurity posture and managing your total cyber exposure. Only Armis has an AI-powered Asset Intelligence Engine. Not only does it understand what assets you have and how they should behave, but it also provides you with global analytic insights and invaluable benchmarks on your industry peers.

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Armis Centrix™, the cyber exposure management platform, is powered by the Armis AI-driven Asset Intelligence Engine, which sees, protects and manages billions of assets around the world in real time. Armis Centrix™ is FedRAMP moderate and DoD IL4 authorized.

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Armis Intelligence Center requires a separate subscription. To discover the full range of benefits and learn more about the Armis Intelligence Center please email us at [email protected]