The Cloud Is Expanding. So Is Your Risk Surface
Enterprises today operate in environments that are dynamic by nature. With cloud-native infrastructure and digital assets now forming the backbone of modern business operations. These environments while offering incredible speed, scale, and flexibility, they also introduce complexity in ensuring complete security of the operation. Cloud assets, from EC2 instances and storage buckets to APIs and container registries, are often deployed and changed outside the scope of traditional IT oversight. Development teams spin up resources rapidly, often without centralized visibility or governance. This shift has made it difficult for security and operations teams to answer a foundational question: what assets do we actually have?
Traditional Cyber Attack Surface Management (CAASM) solutions and security tools, which were built for on-premises environments, often fail to extend visibility into the cloud. This creates critical blind spots across your attack surface. A single exposed S3 bucket, abandoned development workload, or misconfigured IAM role can open the door to compromise. Security teams are left with incomplete inventories, fragmented insights, and operational inefficiencies. The result is increased risk, wasted resources, and a diminished ability to manage cyber exposure effectively.
The Challenge with the Status Quo
Organizations typically operate with a patchwork of point solutions to try to monitor and secure their cloud infrastructure. Cloud Security Posture Management (CSPM) tools may help with misconfigurations, vulnerability scanners find known flaws, and DevSecOps tools inspect code before deployment. But these tools don’t work in collaboration with each other. Each offers only partial visibility and lacks consistent context across environments. This fragmentation leads to inaccurate or duplicate inventories, incomplete ownership attribution, and difficulty prioritizing real risks.
Moreover these “solutions” often don’t correlate cloud and on-prem assets, leaving teams blind to how attackers could move laterally across the hybrid environment. Manual efforts to piece together asset relationships, risk levels, and business impact slow down investigations and remediation, not to mention it often being a game of hit and miss. What’s needed is a unified approach that delivers a single source of truth for all assets, regardless of where or how they are deployed.
Introducing Armis Cloud Intelligence: Clarity Across the Cloud
To meet this growing challenge, Armis has extended its asset management and security capabilities delivered on Armis Centrix™ to specifically dive deeper into cloud assets. We call this Cloud Intelligence and it is built to empower organizations with deep, contextual visibility into cloud-native and digital assets, including those typically hidden from traditional tools.