Axonius boosts asset management with AI – News

The widening visibility gap in increasingly complex environments presents a growing obstacle to modern cybersecurity. With artificial intelligence creating vast asset sprawl, traditional approaches to asset management — such as spreadsheets — are no longer sufficient.

Axonius Inc. meets this challenge with correlated, actionable asset intelligence across cloud, on-premises and edge environments, unlocking smarter asset visibility across a company’s entire vertical structure.

“We have over 1300 [application programming interfaces] that connect into every kind of system and pull asset intelligence and then correlate that to give practitioners actionable decisions that they can make based on that intelligence,” said Ryan Knisley (pictured), chief product strategist at Axonius.

Knisley spoke with theCUBE’s Jackie McGuire at the Black Hat USA event, during an exclusive broadcast on theCUBE, News Media’s livestreaming studio. They discussed how Axonius is delivering the asset intelligence needed for organizations to transition from reactive defense to resilient, business-aligned security strategies. (* Disclosure below.)

AI becomes essential to performant asset management

AI has emerged as a crucial tool to level up asset management approaches and remediate sprawl while also enabling rapid service creation. And beyond threat detection, Axionus leverages AI to help chief information security officers tackle operational complexity and cost rationalization.

In a poignant example, Knisley’s team member was able to identify and rationalize tools, improve license management and minimize key-person risk. With such a strategy and toolset, CISOs are then empowered with the requisite insights to answer fundamental questions on the resources they have, what’s missing and how to go about fixing that, according to Knisley.

“We talk about resiliency, but we’re not thinking about people resiliency,” he said. “I said, ‘Time out. Let’s be thoughtful about the tools that we have.’ Axonius is the platform that we use to discover all of these tools and then make decisions to rationalize them. That was how I was introduced to Axonius five years ago as a customer.”

One of the biggest news stories out of Axonius is its acquisition of Cynerio Israel  Ltd., a company specializing in healthcare IoT and medical device security. This move is both strategic and customer-driven, according to Knisley.

“The reason we made the acquisition was our customers told us … what they wanted next for Axonius was to improve the quality of security within healthcare,” he said. “Axonius, because of the incredible platform that we’ve built, it’s a natural fit for us to then expand into the [Internet of Things], OT and medical device environment because it is such critical infrastructure for our country.”

Here’s the complete video interview, part of News’s and theCUBE’s coverage of the Black Hat USA event:

(* Disclosure: Axonius Inc. sponsored this segment of theCUBE. Neither Axonius nor other sponsors have editorial control over content on theCUBE or News.)

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