Today, where attackers exploit the friction caused by fragmented security tools, true organization resilience requires a unified and deep understanding of the entire attack surface. The joint solution offered by Armis and Upwind bridges the critical visibility, security and control gap between physical enterprise infrastructure and dynamic run-time and workloads typically found in cloud-native environments. While Armis Centrix™ provides the exhaustive asset intelligence, context, and control needed to map the enterprise terrain, Upwind delivers high-definition runtime telemetry to expose exactly how cloud workloads are behaving in real-time. Together, they transform static inventory into a dynamic system of ground to cloud continuous exposure management (CEM), ensuring that a threat originating on an unmanaged device cannot laterally traverse into a critical cloud container.
The State of Cyber Exposure
Modern enterprises face a “context gap” that legacy security tools do not bridge. Cloud environments are defined by ephemeral, short-lived assets that often vanish before a standard scan can even detect them, leading to persistent “Shadow IT” and incomplete risk assessments. Simultaneously, the proliferation of unmanaged OT and IoT devices creates hidden entry points that exist outside the view of cloud-native security platforms. Without a way to correlate these two worlds, security teams are left with siloed data, unable to determine if a cloud vulnerability actually impacts a critical production line or if a theoretical risk is currently being exploited in live production.
The Joint Solution: Unified Exposure Management
The Armis and Upwind joint solution creates a single, comprehensive security fabric designed to eliminate blind spots across the entire attack surface. By integrating Upwind’s runtime-first cloud security with Armis Centrix™, organizations evolve from reactive scanning to proactive and comprehensive exposure management wherever the business operates. This synergy allows teams to see not just what they own, but how those assets interact across environments, turning raw telemetry from the cloud into prioritized, actionable intelligence within the broader enterprise context.