An innovator helping IT and security teams in healthcare organizations gain the visibility they need to take charge of their modern complex environments: Axonius

Without an accurate understanding of what’s in your environment, everything else suffers. But IT and security teams struggle to manage a complex sprawl of devices, users, cloud services, and software. And traditional approaches to compiling an asset inventory are manual and error-prone. So in 2017, after years in the Israel Defense Forces’ Unit 8200, Axonius’ co-founders came together to solve that age old problem. Axonius correlates asset data from existing solutions and provides an always up-to-date inventory, uncovers gaps, and automates response actions. Axonius gives IT and security teams the confidence to control complexity by mitigating threats, navigating risk, decreasing incidents, and informing business-level strategy — all while eliminating manual, repetitive tasks. With Axonius, IT and security teams can move away from reactive, disruptive day-to-day firefighting to focus on the bigger picture. CIOs and IT leaders are challenged with the macro responsibility of managing their overall environment while also ensuring that individual assets match policies. With Axonius, CIOs and IT leaders can inventory, manage, and monitor all unique assets across the enterprise automatically — regardless of location, uptime, or power state — for a real-time, unified view of everything in their environment.

Control Complexity with Axonius

Don’t settle for sub-standard asset visibility just because others say it is complex or time consuming. The Axonius Cybersecurity Asset Management Platform gives you answers and allows you to take action, all from a unified view of your assets and their associated security state. Most organizations piece together various technologies to gain an understanding of the assets in their environments and each asset’s security state. This stitching together creates visibility gaps for asset inventory and security coverage. With digital transformation and evolving work requirements, the number and type of assets IT and security teams must manage is exploding. Many companies still use spreadsheets or network maps to try to control the complexity — with little to no success. Between increasing IT complexity and error-prone manual asset inventory efforts, important context is missing, resulting in cybersecurity events and incidents that can cause major disruption and damage.

Without an orchestrated method of cybersecurity asset management, security organizations are forced to toggle between disparate tools with different data sets, interfaces, capabilities, and common data schema. This is a drain on resources and can cause unnecessary mistakes. Unify the security state of all your assets by deploying one solution. Axonius orchestrates all the tools already in your arsenal — from cloud deployments to CMDB, endpoint protection to encryption, and vulnerability assessment to virtualization tools — giving you unmatched asset visibility and control from one console. Leading industry frameworks, such as those from NIST, the Center for Internet Security, and MITRE, start with words like “identify,” “collect,” and “inventory” — because you need full visibility of your attack surface before you can secure it. But dealing with disparate data sources leads to complexity, inaccuracy, and inefficiency. What’s needed is a single source of truth for asset-related data.

The Axonius Platform

Many platforms provide an “attacker’s view” of a company’s attack surface, but do not provide insight into which assets are most critical or susceptible to exposure. Digital risk platforms provide critical insight into potential threats — but this information isn’t mapped to a company’s infrastructure and attack surface, making it hard to take action. Many teams have several data sources to discover internet-facing assets, vulnerabilities, internal-facing assets, and more. Yet, since all of this data is siloed, it’s extremely hard to piece together and take action. Obtaining a comprehensive, credible inventory of all assets is a prerequisite for understanding and securing your company’s attack surface. Axonius unifies all assets — internal and external — to strengthen attack surface management. Axonius connects to all your existing tools to provide a comprehensive attack surface view. This includes both internal and internet-facing assets, observed vulnerabilities, user accounts, installed software, and more. Moreover, Axonius provides the context into whether assets exposed have mitigating security controls. Axonius Cloud Asset Compliance simply connects to the cloud platforms you’re using to map the state of your cloud instances against industry standards and benchmarks. Whether you use a single public cloud, multi cloud, or hybrid cloud, learn how your cloud instances are configured and evaluate access controls and permissions. Find instances of policies and system usage that don’t meet compliance regulations or support company-specific security policies. Automatically close security control gaps as they’re discovered by isolating devices from the network, enabling or disabling users, and deploying patches.

Solving a Foundational Challenge

Axonius Cloud Asset Compliance for AWS aggregates and correlates data from your AWS environments to show how each account adheres to benchmarks, such as the CIS Amazon Web Services Foundations Benchmark. Ensuring that all your AWS instances and accounts are secured from misconfigurations, overly permissive access rights, and data leakage can be a massive undertaking. Axonius Cloud Asset Compliance for AWS allows you to quickly understand how each Amazon instance adheres to or deviates from cloud compliance benchmarks. Axonius maps all AWS accounts to the rules in the CIS benchmark related to IAM, such as: avoiding use of the root account, rotating credential and access keys, confirming password strength, and more to make sure accounts and instances are configured securely.

Axonius correlates data from medical devices, IT devices, cloud instances, and more for comprehensive visibility in a complex environment. Axonius verifies that endpoint tools, vulnerability scanners, and other security and management tools are updated and covering all your assets. With comprehensive visibility into asset security, Axonius evaluates compliance with security policies and regulations, like the HIPAA security rule. Put response actions on autopilot to automatically address assets that don’t adhere to your security policies.

Meet the leader behind the success of Axonius

Dean Sysman, Co-Founder and CEO of Axonius 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.

“We give IT and security teams the confidence to control complexity by mitigating threats, navigating risk, decreasing incidents, and informing business-level strategy — all while eliminating manual, repetitive tasks.”