CIO Bulletin

Dean Sysman, CEO of Axonius: A cybersecurity veteran with proven track record of bringing innovative cybersecurity products to market

Axonius is the cybersecurity asset management platform that gives organizations a comprehensive asset inventory, uncovers security solution coverage gaps, and automatically validates and enforces security policies. By seamlessly integrating with over 300 security and management solutions, Axonius is deployed in minutes, improving cyber hygiene immediately. Covering millions of devices at customers like the New York Times, Schneider Electric, Landmark Health, AppsFlyer, and many more, Axonius was named the Most Innovative Startup of 2019 at the prestigious RSAC Innovation Sandbox and was named to the CNBC Upstart 100 list and Forbes 20 Rising Stars.

Meeting the client's cybersecurity asset management needs through robust product suite

Cybersecurity Asset Management: The Axonius Cybersecurity Asset Management Platform correlates asset data from existing solutions to provide an always up-to-date inventory, uncover gaps, and automate action — giving you the confidence to control complexity. Ensuring that all assets conform to your policies isn’t like an annual physical. Unlike cholesterol, things change too quickly for point-in-time checkups to check the box. Effective cybersecurity and IT operations rely on continuous validation to flag changes that matter and custom actions to address gaps. Axonius can help. From sending contextualized data to creating an incident response ticket, Axonius automatically alerts the right teams at the right time in your platform of choice. Set up custom emails or get notifications via Jira, Slack, ServiceNow, Zendesk, and more. Augment your device and user data with information found from other data sources, such as Shodan, Censys, Have I Been Pwned, Portnox, and more. Axonius also makes it easy to add or update device data into a Configuration Management Database (CMDB).

Software Management: Axonius Software Management delivers extensive visibility into software applications. It helps IT, financial, and security and risk teams automatically identify all software across the technology estate to identify unwanted and unsanctioned software, inform software spend and cost optimization, and reduce risk. Gain a credible, comprehensive and unified view of all software in your technology stack and eliminate time-intensive manual inventory discovery and compilation. Categorize software asset data with custom tagging and create custom fields to prepare for vendor audits or comply with regulations. Identify unauthorized, unwanted, or suspicious software. Understand the presence and impact of software vulnerabilities and investigate using contextual data to better understand relationships between software and associated devices. Create custom data fields that calculate custom risk scores and prioritize vulnerabilities and security gaps, then automate a response to initiate a remediation workflow. Fully understand your software inventory. Compare deployed software against your contracted number of licenses to better negotiate renewals. Recapture unused or off-boarded licenses and redistribute to save on total licenses needed. Identify unsupported EOS or EOL software versions for more informed renewal or replacement planning.

Cyber Asset Attack Surface Management (CAASM): CAASM tools use API integrations to connect with existing data sources, automatically finding and validating security controls and remediating issues. By aggregating, normalizing, and deduplicating data from IT and security solutions, Axonius offers full visibility into external and internal attack surface to improve security control coverage and trigger custom, automated response actions. Axonius customers get a comprehensive, always up-to-date inventory of all assets, based on data from hundreds of sources already deployed. No agents to install, no network scanning, no traffic sniffing. Use the Axonius Query Wizard to create granular queries to understand how assets adhere to their policies. You can define a wide variety of filters, from which you can easily drill down to the assets that match the required search criteria. The Axonius Security Policy Enforcement Center enables customers to decide what customized actions to trigger automatically any time an asset deviates from policies. Find all known or unknown (shadow) software and surface unwanted or unauthorized software that may be introducing risk. Axonius automatically discovers it all so you can see exactly what you have running in your environment.

Cyber Asset Inventory: Unrivaled visibility. Immediate context. It’s time to make credible, comprehensive cyber asset inventories the rule — not the exception. Manual cyber asset inventories require an average of 86 hours of labor and need to happen 16 times a year. Even then, you won’t have an updated, unified view of everything in your environment, leaving you open to unknown gaps in security. With Axonius, asset inventories are easy — and immediate. By providing a complete asset inventory and connecting to all of your security controls, Axonius enables you to continuously surface coverage gaps and automates actions when they’re found. Axonius connects to EDR/EPP, antivirus, and XDR solutions to find missing or malfunctioning security agents for any device — regardless of OS or location.

The Visionary Leader Upfront

Dean Sysman is a co-founder and the Chief Executive Officer of Axonius. He is a world-renowned expert in cybersecurity who was honored with a place on the Forbes 30 Under 30 Israel 2017 list. Before founding Axonius, Dean co-founded Cymmetria, A YC-backed cyber deception company with Fortune 500 customers. He has spoken at major conferences including Blackhat, Defcon, CCC, and more. He is an alumnus of an elite unit in the Israeli Intelligence Corps, where he served for five years as a team leader and officer. During his service, Dean received commendations and awards for his service.

Dean is a graduate of the special "Etgar" program, where he earned his B.Sc. in computer science at the age of 19. In 2005, Dean was part of the gold medal team in the international Robotic Olympics in South Korea. Dean enjoys playing poker and reading existential philosophy.