IoT security unicorn Armis today released a new IT asset visibility and management product marking its first standalone product since it launched its device security platform in 2017. The vendor claims that Armis Asset Management can see almost five times more assets — this includes laptops, servers, clouds, virtual machines, and IoT devices — compared to standalone endpoint detection and response (EDR) and configuration and vulnerability management tools from Qualys, Tenable, CrowdStrike, and Carbon Black.
Like its larger platform, the new Asset Management product is agentless, and it works across clouds, managed, and unmanaged devices.
“The problem that we’re really looking to solve is just this massive influx of devices across the organization,” said Chris Dobrec, VP of product marketing at Armis. “That’s created a tremendous amount of complexity and fragmentation across the environment, and the net result is a pretty significant lack of visibility that we’re seeing in our customers.”
These customers include Docusign, Mondeléz, and Sysco, among other Fortune 100 firms.
How Armis Asset Management WorksArmis Asset Management helps customers solve this problem by discovering and analyzing all assets across a customers’ IT environment. The product then identifies vulnerabilities, risks, and security gaps, and assigns risk scores to all assets. Finally, it automates the enforcement of security policies across these assets.
It does this using Armis’ Device Knowledgebase, which the vendor says is the largest in the world tracking more than 500 million assets daily. “And it’s growing,” Dobrec said. “The more customers that we have, the more data we see, the more knowledge and information we get about the devices that are out there.”
Additionally, the product includes hundreds of adapters that integrate with existing IT and security solutions, and Armis says enterprises can deploy Asset Management globally in 45 minutes.
“Our visibility is pretty substantial, giving us the ability to see up to five-times more assets in an existing environment, on average,” compared to standalone vulnerability management, EDR, and configuration management database (CMDB) products, Dobrec said. This is based on a review of 28 Global 2000 customers with deployments of more than 10 locations each and a combined visibility of more than 110 million devices.
“The vulnerability management solutions come from vendors like Qualys, or Tenable, or Rapid7,” he said. “EDR solutions again are things like CrowdStrike or Carbon Black. And then CMDBs are from companies like ServiceNow.”