Overview
Modern enterprises are powered by an ever-growing web of connected devices including laptops, cameras, sensors, building management systems, medical equipment, and countless other assets. These devices are vital to operations but often exist outside the reach of traditional security tools. As a result, organizations face expanding attack surfaces and hidden risks that can be exploited by threat actors.
To address this challenge, Armis and Viakoo have come together to deliver a joint solution that unites complete device visibility with automated remediation. Armis Centrix™ discovers and classifies every device in your environment, while continuously assessing their behavior, vulnerabilities, and risk posture. The Viakoo Action Platform then takes this intelligence and automatically remediates IoT device issues, ensuring each asset remains secure, compliant, and operational. Together, the joint solution helps organizations reduce risk, eliminate manual effort, and protect the integrity of the digital estate.
State of the Market
The connected enterprise has transformed the digital landscape. In most organizations today, more than half of the devices communicating across the network are unmanaged or IoT devices; assets that cannot run agents, are difficult to patch, and often fall outside IT’s direct control. From IP cameras and badge readers to MRIs and programmable logic controllers, these systems play critical roles in operations but are frequently invisible to traditional IT and security solutions such as vulnerability management platforms, endpoint detection and response tools, or configuration management databases.
As the number of connected devices continues to surge, attackers are exploiting these blind spots to gain access to sensitive systems and data. Meanwhile, regulatory scrutiny and compliance mandates are tightening, putting additional pressure on organizations to maintain continuous visibility, security control, and compliance across every connected endpoint. The result is a growing need for automated solutions that not only identify risks but take meaningful, timely action to resolve them, without disrupting operations
The Challenge
The first step in securing any environment is knowing what’s there. IoT devices have become indispensable to modern business operations, connecting everything from security cameras and sensors to medical imaging systems and industrial control units. Yet, the same characteristics that make IoT technology powerful, its ubiquity, connectivity, and diversity, also make it a prime target for cyberattacks.